agenda - Day 1

Thursday 30 March

registration

from 8.30am

Networking

9:30am - 10:00am

 

Opening plenary: The decade ahead

10:00am - 11:40am

 

Welcome to Meanjin / Brisbane and to Common Threads

Aunty Deborah Sandy

Professor Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Baldwin

Dr Jackie Huggins AM

Tarneen Onus-Browne

Jordan Wimbis

 

Common Threads will be held on the lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples and will begin with a Welcome to Country. Our opening plenary speakers will challenge us to think big about our vision for the next decade and what’s possible when we work together to win transformative change. Together we’ll explore the moment we’re in right now, honour and reflect on the work done over the past few decades, celebrate our wins and learn more about the roles in our movement, and different approaches to creating change. 

 

Morning tea

Morning tea

11:40am - 12:10pm

An opportunity to connect, yarn and plan for action with new and old friends.

 

Campaign breakouts

12:10pm - 1:30pm

In part one of the campaign breakouts, you’ll get to know who’s who in the space, understand the advocacy landscape and differing roles within the movement, and explore strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats for your issue. These conversations will form the foundation for day two campaign breakouts – we encourage you to select one issue across the two days. 

 

  • Deaths in custody, law reform and transformative justice


    Breakout Room 1

  • Beyond the referendum: truth, treaties and representation


    Breakout Room 2

  • Organising our communities on the referendum


    Breakout Room 3

  • Protecting our country, climate and cultural heritage


    Breakout Room 4

  • Racism and inequality in health, housing and disability justice


    Breakout Room 5

  • Education, language revival and First Nations knowledge systems


    Breakout Room 6

Lunch

Lunch

1:30pm - 2:20pm

An opportunity to connect, yarn and plan for action with new and old friends.

SKILLS breakouts

2:20pm - 3:35pm

Come along to one of six different opportunities for you to sharpen your skills in campaigning and advocacy. These breakouts will be repeated on Day 2, so we encourage you to select your two priorities - one for Day 1 and another for Day 2.

  • Messaging and Comms

    Breakout Room 1

    Learn early insights from Passing the Message Stick, a groundbreaking message research project to find the messages that build widespread public support for transformative change on First Nations issues. Understand the value of strengths-based messaging and take away practical do’s and don’ts to improve your communications.

  • Campaign strategy

    Breakout Room 2

    Learn the key concepts and take away practical tools to help build your very own campaign strategy. We’ll touch on the role of power (and how to shift it), theory of change, mapping your targets, power mapping, audiences, critical paths and an overview of different roles in a movement.

  • Media training

    Breakout Room 3

    Learn vital media communication skills to maximise your campaign impact, including media theory, understanding the media landscape, what makes a story newsworthy, how to craft compelling key messages, and how to deliver your message in a powerful and succinct way.

  • Community organising

    Breakout Room 4

    What’s the difference between mobilising and organising? What are circles of commitment? You’ll walk away with answers to these questions and more, including understanding the basics of community organising and how we can use it to build the people power needed to win systemic change.

  • Digital organising

    Breakout Room 5

    How can we use the digital world as a tool to build people power? Learn the basics of digital organising, from list management through to audience mapping and engagement, tips and tricks to cut through social media algorithms and how to run engaging and accessible online events and actions.

  • Government relations

    Breakout Room 6

    Learn how to navigate Parliament at state and federal levels, understand policy cycles and practical tips for engaging with decision makers, from how to secure a meeting, to preparing and following up afterwards. We’ll also share frameworks to help you prepare and deliver a clear pitch on your issue.

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

3:35pm - 4:05pm

An opportunity to connect, yarn and plan for action with new and old friends.

CLOSING plenary: Our ambitious vision for change

4:05pm - 5:50pm

 
 
 

We’ll close day one of the Summit with an extraordinary lineup of advocates and activists sharing their own ambitious visions for change and opening space for us to explore questions and concerns together, all within the context of the upcoming referendum. 

 

Social event at the Rooftop Bar

Social event at the Rooftop Bar

6:00pm onwards

Join us for a casual yarn on the rooftop, plus performances from Keely, Ethan Enoch, Philly and Naycab.

 

Keely

Ethan Enoch

Philly

Naycab