South West Aboriginal Women's Collective

16/05/2026

Check out the Bunbury Reconciliation Week Calendar...start locking down your calendar to not miss out on these awesome community events! All Welcome! 🧡🧡🧡

14/05/2026

On behalf of the South West Aboriginal Women’s Collective, Yaka Dandjoo Events, Goomburrup Aboriginal Corporation and Milligan., we warmly invite community to join us for our Sorry Day Breakfast ❤️

Come together for a morning of reflection, truth-telling, connection and healing as we honour Stolen Generations survivors, families and communities.

🌸 Hear about the Sorry Day Flower Project
☕ Share brekky and a cuppa with community
🤍 Walk together towards healing and reconciliation

📅 Tuesday 26th May 2026
⏰ 8:00am – 10:00am
📍 Milligan, 35 Milligan Street Carey Park

Please register for catering purposes.
RSVP by 19th May
📧 swawc6230@gmail.com

Everyone welcome.

14/05/2026

📸🖌️🌠🎨Tag every artist you think is deadly!

If you need help applying let us know!

Thanks to Bec Harnett for sharing !

Parliament House Artist-in-Residence

14/05/2026

If anyone is looking for an online mentor program this is it! Access to the most deadly professional women from across Australia. You are able to arrange what suits you best! 🧡🧡🧡

🔥 Mentoring Program Training Reminder 🔥

This training session is for current participants in the Ember Connect Mentoring Program — both mentors and mentees.

If you are currently part of the program, completing this training is mandatory and forms part of your program requirements.

The session is designed to help you better understand the mentoring process, expectations, communication, boundaries, and how to get the most out of your mentoring journey.

The good news? You only need to complete this training once.

We run these sessions every 2 weeks, so please jump on and register for a session that suits you.

Register: https://emberconnectlive.com.au/events

If the available times don’t work for you, get in touch with our team and we can organise a 1:1 session to complete the training with you 💻✨

📧 info@emberconnect.com.au

Not yet part of our Mentoring Program but interested in joining? 🔥
Get in touch with us and see if it’s the right fit for you.

We’re excited to continue building a strong, supportive mentoring community together 🖤💛❤️

10/05/2026

If anyone is going to this conference I can recommend connecting or attending Tammy Baarts keynote. I have attending one of her workshops and follow her on social media. She is deadly 🌟🌟🌟

I’m heading to Boorloo (Perth) in September… and this feels deeply significant. I’ve been invited to deliver a keynote as part of the AISWA First Nations work — alongside educators and leaders who are committed to strengthening how we show up for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young p...

08/05/2026

Congratulations to the newly elected Board members of South West Aboriginal Medical Service.

A special congratulations to newly appointed Board Chairperson Michelle Munns, alongside Rhonda Norman, Lesley Ugle, David Williams, Robyn McCreanor and Maxine Williams.

From all of us at the South West Aboriginal Women’s Collective, we look forward to supporting and walking alongside you in the important work ahead. We know that community is strengthened when we work together with respect, vision and accountability for our people and future generations.

Congratulations again to all elected members — we wish you strength, wisdom and success in your roles. ❤️🖤💛

Following our Annual General Meeting last month we would like to introduce our new Board Chairperson, Michelle Munns.

Michelle is a proud Noongar woman, born and raised in Bunbury, with deep cultural connections through her families McGuire, Bennell, Davis and Hayden.

She brings a strong understanding of Noongar culture, traditions and protocols, grounded in both lived experience and long-standing community involvement.

With more than 20 years’ experience in Aboriginal health across the South West, Michelle worked for SWAMS from 2003 to 2013 before later joining the SWAMS board. She was elected SWAMS Board Chairperson in April 2026.

Michelle has worked for WA Country Health Service for 12 years and is currently the Regional Aboriginal Health Consultant since August 2020.

In this role, she leads and coordinates Aboriginal health projects and services that support Closing the Gap, while also providing cultural consultancy to staff and professional support to Aboriginal employees.

She is a graduate of Curtin University, holding a Bachelor of Applied Science (Indigenous Professional Practices) with a major in Indigenous Community Health.

Michelle is also a Director on the South West Development Commission and her terms end in 2026 and also a Director on Borenkiitj Aboriginal Corporation.

We look forward to introducing you to our other board members in the coming weeks.

To see our full list of SWAMS Board Members please follow the link in the comments.

07/05/2026

For our Busselton, Dunsborough, Margaret River, Cowaramup, Nannup friends and family.

06/05/2026

Please share with any youth in the South West region interested in being a part of the Climate Justice? This online event would be a great start, we would then love for you to reach out to the SWAWC so we can support you in connecting with other mob and events across the nation!

You're invited to our webinar - Building Power Together, our vision for 2026 🙌🙌

Join us next week to hear what's been happening across the country, what's planned for the year ahead, and where things are headed next. This is a chance to see the plans, share in the bigger picture and hear directly from our team.

This webinar is open to anyone, whether you've been a part of Seed for years or you're brand new to Seed, this is a space for you!

Sign up here: https://events.humanitix.com/seed-mob-webinar-2026-plans

06/05/2026

Thank you to Goomburrup Aboriginal Corporation and Yaka Dandjoo Events for organising this event today.

05/05/2026

We are still taking it all in after attending the Women Deliver Conference 2026 held in Naarm, the home of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the East Kulin Nation. (Melbourne)

With the largest delegation ever coming from the South West it’s something that will stay with us for a long time not just personally, but for the South West and the work we’re doing back home. Well done ladies, you did the South West proud!

We are so grateful to be fully supported by Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations Gender Justice, not only financially but also for the extra care and encouragement from our girl Bec Harnett who is now working for the Institute right alongside June Oscar AO.

Over 150 First Nations women and more than 6,000 women from across the world in attendance was busy and powerful. There were so many familiar faces and strong women from across Australia too including our sisters from Kimberley Aboriginal Women's Council, Thamarrurr Aboriginal Women's Council , Women Of Mabo, Leanne Aunty Cheryl Penrith and the deadly Visual Dreaming girls, Janine Dureau from Broome, Chloe Collard from Geraldton, Ada Hansen from Kalgoorlie, O'reeri from Wyndam, Georgia Beardman and Jess Beckerling, the women from Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, Senator Sue Lines, Paige from Martu Mob and so many more.

Along with a variety of sessions and side events Michelle attended an invitation only Breakfast with June Oscar along with some VIP's from across the world to talk about the work being done in the South West, and some of our challenges.

We showed up. We spoke up.
And we made sure our South West voices were heard even taking the mic and contributing to the Women Deliver Melbourne Women Statement for 2026.

There were so many highlights in hearing from leaders like Julia Gillard, Jacinda Ardern and Maliha Khan which made us all a little star struck, but honestly, some of the most powerful moments were just being in spaces with each other.

We are ready to gather again to talk about the new ideas, new connections, new friendships, and a stronger understanding of what happens when women come together with purpose.

This is just the beginning.
The real impact is what we do with it now, back here on Country.

Stay Tuned 🌠🌠🌠

25/04/2026

The South West Delegation is departing from Perth to Naarm along with 150 other women from across the Country today to attend https://.org/ . A leading global advocate for gender equality, focusing on the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women, particularly in sexual and reproductive health.

Congratulations to the following recipients on applying and receiving a full scholarship from Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute to attend the 5 day event.

We look forward to attending amazing workshops, connecting with mob from all over Australia and meeting many other women from across the world.

Steph Riley
Jodie Riley
Joanne Hill
Jasmine Gentle
Amy Binder
Asharie Bradshaw
Michelle Woosnam