Language and Terminology Toolkit
The tools to expand your knowledge and understanding, and inform a respectful and appropriate approach to communication.
Toolkit
Find out what’s respectful, what’s not, and why. Build your confidence to communicate in ways that build connection and bring Australians together.
Benefits of the Toolkit
- You’ll be equipped
Communicate with understanding and sensitivity in relation to First Nations histories, cultures and perspectives. Grow your knowledge of the meaning, context and history of words and phrases. - You’ll build your confidence
Discover more about why the language we use matters and find out what’s respectful, what’s not, and why. - You’ll communicate with respect
By embracing respectful communication we contribute to all Australians being enriched by meaningful relationships and connections.
“This Language and Terminology Toolkit aims to assist you in engaging in strengths-based discourse, and gives you the autonomy to respond to the needs of your community. What you say matters. But how it's received matters even more.”
– Courtney Rubie, Wiradjuri woman in collaboration with Australians Together
The Wound
Our History
Why Me?
Our Cultures
My Response