Projects

Karabena Consulting facilitated a bespoke cultural learning session for the Board and executive of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, taking a highly experienced governance audience beyond foundational training to Treaty, economic empowerment and what world-class governance means in a First Nations context.

June 2026

Professor Kerry Arabena led a panel and joined the closing plenary at the Australian Homelessness Conference in Darwin, hosted by AHURI, on prevention across the whole of life and on placing people with lived experience at the centre of decisions that affect them.

October 2026

Professor Kerry Arabena facilitated a gathering hosted by VACCHO with the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity and Safer Care Victoria, designing how an Aboriginal Advisory Group could guide the Council’s work.

September 2026

Professor Kerry Arabena was Master of Ceremonies for the OCHRe Convocation 2026 in Naarm, holding two days of Indigenous research, cultural safety and knowledge framework discussions under the theme Empowering Voices and Deadly Futures.

October 2026

Professor Kerry Arabena was Master of Ceremonies for the Water is Life Traditional Owner Oversight Forum on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, a two-day statewide gathering overseeing Victoria’s Traditional Owner Access to Water Roadmap.

September 2026

Karabena Consulting was engaged by Australian Unity to deliver the second phase of the Living Libraries cultural immersion program.

The project aimed to strengthen reconciliation commitments within Australian Unity by providing non-Indigenous staff with opportunities to engage directly with Aboriginal leaders and community organisations.

 July – September 2025

Karabena Consulting facilitated a workshop for the Community Relations and Heritage Division of the DPC on 16 October 2024. The workshop focused on DISC profiles, internal division relationships, and directional communication strategies. The goal was to improve communication among team members, enhancing both personal understanding and the overall efficiency of the division.

The Traditional Owner Rights and Land Justice Branch (TORLJ) conducted a planning day to map out key priorities for 2024, integrate the First Peoples - State Relations (FPSR) Guiding Principles into their work, and begin a comprehensive planning process.

Project Timeline: February – March 2024

The National Redress Scheme Survivor Roundtable provides survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and their advocates a platform to give feedback on the Scheme and receive updates on its performance. The Second Year Review highlighted the need for formal inclusion of survivors in the governance structure.

Project Timeline: Ongoing, with the most recent roundtable held in Perth on 6 March 2024.

Karabena Consulting was contracted to facilitate the meeting of all members of Victoria’s Closing the Gap Partnership Forum, now named Ngaweeyan Maar-oo, to establish the self-determining priorities and driving implementation action on closing the gap.

Project Timeline: August 2023

The Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN) has made significant strides towards bolstering community representation within its governance and advisory panels.

Project Timeline: June 2023 – August 2023

Karabena Consulting was engaged by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria to support the establishment of the Victorian Closing the Gap (CTG) Partnership Forum. The CTG agenda contains key responsibilities, accountabilities, and commitments to close the gap for current and future generations of Aboriginal Victorians for the next 10 years.

Project Timeline: February 2022 – December 2022

Karabena Consulting was engaged to facilitate a strategy day for the Yarra Valley Water (YVW) Board. The aim of the strategy day was to promote governance inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s aspirations for healthy Country.

Project Timeline: July 2022 – November 2022