29/05/2025
It's Reconciliation Week in Australia 🖤💛❤️
Here are some brilliant tips from Riley Callie Resources to check where your Indigenous resources are coming from.
Ensure you're supporting an authentic Indigenous business or ethical non-Indigenous business, click, read and follow their post below 👇🏽
Every Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC week, we naturally see a flood of resources for sale, and training on offer, which centre around Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Unfortunately, quite often, a lot of these (particularly in terms of products for sale), are not created in ethical ways.
I urge everyone to do your research before buying Indigenous resources or engaging in training - please support blak businesses where you can, or businesses who you can clearly see, are working in an ethical partnership with Indigenous businesses. If a shop features Aboriginal artwork but fails to mention who the artist is, or if royalties are being paid, chances are, they aren't doing things right. If a training promises to share First Nations perspectives but there are no Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander facilitators, chances are you could find more authentic training elsewhere.
Another red flag - if you see businesses promoting resources or training on their website and they fail to capitalise the A or I in Aboriginal or Indigenous, chances are, somethings not right.
Aboriginal businesses will clearly tell you who their mob is, or who they're working with. Just like non Indigenous companies working in partnership with mob will be clear about who and how they work.
