PBB Media Development Team
PBB Media, a project of Mullum S.E.E.D. is an entirely volunteer run and not-for-profit community media project, our core team based in Northern NSW, Australia. Operating locally and globally PBB Media aims to deliver non-sensationalist, useful information to parents and families from a strong source base including: real life stories from parents, family and community members, healthcare providers, leaders and experts; the latest in evidence-based science relating to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting; a fresh look at time-honoured traditions exploring what works for modern day living and; a close look at new ideas emerging.
The PBB Media Contributors Platform offers a space for passionate and committed individuals to contribute to our project. Our Development Team provide ongoing training, coaching and support to the contributors as well as organisation, planning and strategy for most operations at PBB Media. They work tirelessly to ensure our diverse and copper-bottomed weekly radio program, national & international podcasts come to life; secure, promote and roll out our live 'PBB Talks' events; the ongoing happenings and info nights such as our beloved Birthkeeper Circles, Local Maternity Services Info Sessions; Film Screenings and so on - an invaluable service to our local community; they ensure the smooth and steady growth of our vision to become a trustworthy and diverse source of information and inspiration for families and community members around the world.
Among members of the development team there is an ongoing commitment to ensure improvement of the journey and of outcomes for women, their babies, families and their communities through continuous and direct communications with the various and many stakeholders in this arena including: government bodies, policy makers, higher education leaders and management, researchers, health consumer organisations and at the very heart - directly communication with consumers themselves - our mothers, fathers, parents, families and their communities.
The PBB Media Contributors Platform offers a space for passionate and committed individuals to contribute to our project. Our Development Team provide ongoing training, coaching and support to the contributors as well as organisation, planning and strategy for most operations at PBB Media. They work tirelessly to ensure our diverse and copper-bottomed weekly radio program, national & international podcasts come to life; secure, promote and roll out our live 'PBB Talks' events; the ongoing happenings and info nights such as our beloved Birthkeeper Circles, Local Maternity Services Info Sessions; Film Screenings and so on - an invaluable service to our local community; they ensure the smooth and steady growth of our vision to become a trustworthy and diverse source of information and inspiration for families and community members around the world.
Among members of the development team there is an ongoing commitment to ensure improvement of the journey and of outcomes for women, their babies, families and their communities through continuous and direct communications with the various and many stakeholders in this arena including: government bodies, policy makers, higher education leaders and management, researchers, health consumer organisations and at the very heart - directly communication with consumers themselves - our mothers, fathers, parents, families and their communities.
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Annalee Atia
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Kirilly Dawn
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Kirilly is a Barkindji woman passionate about women reclaiming and remembering the sovereignty of our bodies and births. She is a birth doula, an advocate for birthing on country and incorporates her love of somatic movement and embodied prayer into her work. She trained as a birth doula with Ibu Robin Lim & Debra Pascali Bonaro and apprenticed with Dr Vijaya Krishnan at the Sanctum Birth Centre - a holistic, physiological focused birthing centre in Hyderabad, India. Believing in the power of oral learning & storytelling, Kirilly joined the Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond show as a regular presenter & producer, with a vision to share more Indigenous women's voices, stories and experiences of childbirth and maternity care in Australia.
You can follow her work on Instagram @indigenous.doulas and @kirillydawn Get in touch with Kirilly
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Henriette Blecher
Oni lives in Mullumbimby and works with her hands in cranio sacral work, Arvigo Mayan Abdominal Therapy (Incl pregnancy massage), fascial release and recently trained in urogenital osteopathy. Currently, her academic research efforts are in the direction of Australian masculinities and male mental health and she hopes these studies will enable her to assist fathers in the postnatal period. Oni studied two years in Bachelor of Midwifery before branching off into other forms of support for mothers and families in the antenatal, birth and postnatal periods. Oni co facilitated weekly postnatal support groups in Murwillumbah with midwife and antenatal educator Sali McIntyre where both women embody village style support and co-creative education. Oni is passionate about interdisciplinary health and how we can all expand each other’s skills and awareness through discussion and positive problem solving through skills sharing and cross pollination. Through this shared expansion, Oni sees a different way of parents, children and families interacting within communities.
Get in touch with Oni
acknowledgementPregnancy, Birth and Beyond Media, our development team and contributors pay our respects to Indigenous elders past, present and emerging. The majority of our team reside on and work from the beautiful land Cavanbah, the meeting place now also known as Byron Bay, and the surrounding hills, in Northern NSW, Australia. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land, the Arakwal people, and the Minjungbal, Widjabul and Nyangbal people of the Bundjalung Nation and the many other clans that cared for and birthed on this land. |
PBB Media - Pregnancy Birth and Beyond acknowledges the ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART
The ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART is addressed to the Australian people. It is a document that outlines the path forward for recognising Indigenous Australians in the Australian constitution.
Over a six month period, a consultation process engaged more than 1200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representatives in a dozen regional dialogues across the country culminating in a constitutional convention bringing together over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders meeting in June 2017 at the foot of Uluru in Central Australia on the lands of the Aṉangu people.
The majority resolved, in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’, to call for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of ‘agreement-making’ and ‘truth-telling’ between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, accordingto the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 yearsago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’,and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancientsovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.
Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
Over a six month period, a consultation process engaged more than 1200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representatives in a dozen regional dialogues across the country culminating in a constitutional convention bringing together over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders meeting in June 2017 at the foot of Uluru in Central Australia on the lands of the Aṉangu people.
The majority resolved, in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’, to call for the establishment of a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of ‘agreement-making’ and ‘truth-telling’ between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, accordingto the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 yearsago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’,and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancientsovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.
Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.