Programs

Everyone’s Business is a cultural capability training package for the NSW public sector workforce. It is designed to help us all understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and how past policies and practices continue to affect the community today.

Through this training, NSW public sector employees will learn how to support and build culturally safe work spaces and services across NSW.

The training contains a calendar of significant dates and events, a cultural awareness journey, and trauma informed e-learning modules about the Stolen Generations. Each part of Everyone’s Business provides important first-hand knowledge and information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their culture. The Public Service Commissions project team worked closely with Stolen Generations survivors and their organisations, the Aboriginal community, and experts across the NSW public sector to develop Everyone’s Business.

The Burraga Foundation worked alongside the Public Service Commissions, content and learning development teams, to provision the Everyone’s Business online learning spaces and SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Models) compatible modules, for distribution to whole of NSW Government and NSW NGO sectors.

The NSW Tech Savvy Elders program invites Aboriginal Elders and students to learn and share together through storytelling and technology.

The program provides students with the opportunity to interview Elders about their story as an Aboriginal Australian. With permission, stories are recorded on a digital device and shared on the Storylines platform.

The program aims to boost digital inclusion among Aboriginal Elders whilst strengthening relationships between Aboriginal Communities and schools.

Tech Savvy Elders is delivered in partnership with Family and Community Services, NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and Burraga Foundation. We also acknowledge Telstra's sponsorship of supporting resources.

Celebrating stories success through education.

The Storylines platform provides local community members, schools, organisations and the broader community with a culturally safe online environment to share and celebrate Aboriginal non-secret, non-sacred stories of history, culture and achievement.

Storylines enables communities to establish their own Storylines Community website that provides local community ownership and approval of all content shared.

The Storylines initiative aims to be a source of self-esteem and confidence for all students, whilst providing an opportunity for real-world relationships and positive partnerships to be developed through storytelling and consultation.

The Storylines Initiative invites everyone to share stories from the past and present, to inspire the future.

The Burraga Foundation was engaged to design and develop the NSW AECG’s Language App and platform.

The languages featured on the NSW AECG Languages App have been sourced directly from the language groups across New South Wales. The NSW AECG believes the App is a highly effective tool in maintaining and revitalising Aboriginal languages from across NSW.

The NSW AECG Languages App currently contains the languages of Bundjalung, Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, Paakantji and Wiradjuri with Murrawarri coming soon.

The NSW AECG Aboriginal languages app is a great tool for learning the various Aboriginal languages of New South Wales. The app features dictionaries with a range of games to support the learning and revitalisation of these languages.

The NSW AECG and Burraga Foundation acknowledges the homelands of all Aboriginal people and pay respects to Country.

Support for the Bindila Digital and Gujaga Foundations, Dharawal Language and Culture App.

The Burraga Foundation supports Bindila Digital in a technical advisory capacity. Burraga’s technical consultancy supports Bindila Digital to further develop innovative new products, that enable the teaching of the Dharawal language.

Further information about the Dharawal Language and Culture App can be found here.

Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests are an initiative of OCHRE, the NSW Government’s community-focused plan for Aboriginal affairs.

The establishment of the Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests enables Aboriginal people and communities across NSW to reclaim, revitalise and maintain their traditional Aboriginal languages.

Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests provide a continuous learning pathway for Aboriginal people while recognising the existing language skills and knowledge of Aboriginal community members.

The Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests operate within participating schools to provide Aboriginal students and their families with a continuous pathway of learning, from preschool to Year 12 and into tertiary education (TAFE and universities) and to offer Aboriginal students a new opportunity to consider language teaching as a vocation.

An Aboriginal Language and Culture Nest is a local network of communities, bound together by their connection to an Aboriginal language.

The Board of Studies Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES) now the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) is delivering Language Nest resources to support NSW schools in providing learning pathways. The Aboriginal Language and Culture Nest initiative leadership is jointly delivered by the NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Educational Consultative Group (AECG), which is the peak advisory group on Aboriginal education in NSW.