The Jawun Story

Story is at the heart of Indigenous tradition through song, dance, through art and language.

The sharing of story across generations has helped shape this; the world's oldest culture.

Sharing story is at the heart of Jawun. Through story, the sharing of ideas, knowledge and skills, Jawun is helping drive Indigenous led change in communities across Australia.

Jawun's own story is one of engagement between corporate, government and philanthropic organisations and Indigenous communities across the country. In both remote and urban Indigenous communities, Jawun people work with local Indigenous leaders and organisations to identify their goals and aspirations.

They then work together to determine the resources needed to help the community meet those goals. Jawun then draws in its powerful network of partnerships with some of Australia's largest companies, as well as state and federal government departments, to locate the right resources from a diverse and highly skilled pool.

Each secondee brings with them their own story, their specialist skills, their knowledge, and their experience, and by sharing them within the community, they transfer skills and build local capacity which empowers local leaders in the long term.

Each secondee shares in the richness of the Indigenous way of life, learning their story, their values, their unique skills, their point of view, their hopes, and goals.

For the secondees, Jawun is a powerful, energising experience. It opens them to new ways of thinking, of looking at the land, of experiencing the Indigenous way of life. For Indigenous communities, it is about embracing the right to be responsible for their own economic and cultural identity, of escaping the welfare cycle and owning their collective and individual futures. It is about empowerment and the right to take responsibility.

For corporations. Jawun is an extremely personal undertaking. It requires a far greater emotional and personal effort than offering money. Jawun is an Indigenous story being retold in Indigenous communities across the breadth of Australia and in the corridors and boardrooms of some of the country's largest, most powerful corporations.

Indigenous led change through the sharing of ideas and the transfer of knowledge and skills across cultures. That is Jawun.

That is the Jawun story.