Malu Matriarchs Collective acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters and skies. We acknowledge that Country is not a resource to be owned, but a living authority — holding Lore, knowledge, kinship systems and responsibilities that have guided communities for tens of thousands of years, and we honour their ancestors whom they walked before them, their Elders present and the next generation of leaders. We recognise their deep enduring connection to this place, and their sovereignty that has never been ceded.

We also acknowledge the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific, Southeast Asia and beyond, whose cultures, customary governance systems and relational ways of being continuing to shape their lands and communities. We honour the shared strength, resilience and wisdom of Indigenous peoples across the region.

Wherever we work, we commit to walking respectfully, upholding cultural authority, and ensuring our practice strengthens — rather than extracts from — the communities and Countries we engage with.

Acknowledgement of Country