This marks a significant change in how we work, with a new purpose, vision, and horizon of work ahead.
We’re building on years of research and engagement to strengthen connections between people, programs, and systems. While CFI is changing, our relationships will deepen and expand, opening new opportunities through Belonging for All.
Learn more about Belonging for AllWe bring together leaders and organisations from different contexts for learning, creativity, and shared action. Collectively, we bring to life new narratives for a more equitable Australia.
Australian’s seek a nation where everyone belongs – yet division, loneliness, and distrust are intensifying. Many decision-makers across politics, business, and media actively benefit from division.
Without change, decisions about who belongs and who doesn’t will define us as a country.
Through our Belonging for All strategy, we’re building on years of research and engagement to strengthen connections between people, programs, and systems. We’re working with community leaders and national decision makers to create new ways for people to bridge across difference – not just at the dinner table but in the systems, policies, and resource decisions that shape who belongs in Australia.
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“Whether we acknowledge it or not, we co-exist in a post-conflict nation which has not yet made peace with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”, writes Noongar and Yawuru academic and storyteller, Dr Elfie Shiosaki (SBS, 2020).
To build peace, healing and equity in this country, genuine collaborations between First Nations and other Australians are essential. This work is structural and relational.
It is work on both sides of the river and in the middle together. Working across racial and cultural divides to put in place just arrangements for truth-telling, justice and equity. It means shifting power and practices of colonial institutions and cultures to centre First Nations’ leadership, culture and knowledges.
It is about collective healing in a country still grappling with colonisation. Through Peacebuilding and Healing, we transform ourselves as we transform our systems.
Eight out of ten Australians believe our democracy is worth trying to fix but is not on the right track. Many feel a sense of declining agency, accountability and trust in information.
We believe one way to address this is by fostering collective agency and more equitable decision-making.
We believe an equitable democracy is one in which dialogue and decisions take place with all of us. It includes diverse perspectives and takes place from communities to the national level.
We are building on what we have learned and demonstrated over the past decade in community-led systems change.
ChangeFest is the nationwide movement for community-led change in Australia. It is committed to truth, healing, and equity – and to First Nations voice being centred in local, regional and national decisions.
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