From survival to strength: Many roots, one future, balancing the scales

First Nations women leading change through community knowledge, healing, connection, and shared responsibility.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Kirby Institute is looking at what ‘balancing the scales’ really means across health, leadership, and systems, and how all of us, including men, have a role in creating safer futures.

Please join us for a First Nations-led conversation grounded in women’s lived experience, healing, and connection to Country.

This is an in-person event that will also be livestreamed.
For in-person attendees, a catered lunch will be provided at 12:30pm

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Speakers to be confirmed.

Content warning: Speakers may share personal experiences of trauma, including domestic and family violence and stigma. Please take care when attending, and participate in a way that feels safe for you.

Learn more about UN Women Australia | International Women's Day 2026
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Artwork: Connection Through Unity by proud Kamilaroi man Daniel Evans

This artwork was commissioned by the Kirby Institute’s Yandamanjang First Nations Health Research Program. Yandamanjang (yah-nuh-mun-yung) in the Dharawal language means we are all walking together, which symbolises the approach to First Nations research at the Kirby Institute.