Values

The work done through Barabirang Projects is grounded in Indigenous sovereignty, relational accountability, and responsibility to Country and Community.

These values are not aspirational, as they govern how we engage, collaborate, and contribute, and they shape the conditions under which work with us is possible.

Work undertaken through Barabirang Projects is relational in nature and accountable over time. Engagements that prioritise speed, extraction, or transactional outcomes over relationship are not aligned with how this work unfolds.

Clarity is a form of care. Work with Barabirang Projects is grounded in truth-telling, responsibility, and the willingness to sit with complexity and discomfort where necessary. Care without consequence reproduces harm; care with responsibility makes transformation possible.

Meaningful engagement requires transparency of purpose, authority, and expectation. Consent must be free, prior, informed, ongoing, and mutual. Work that relies on ambiguity, unspoken assumptions, or one-sided benefit undermines integrity and will not be sustained.

The work of Barabirang Projects exists in continuity with past and future generations.

Creative, intellectual, and cultural labour is never detached from Community, Country, or consequence. Knowledge is held with responsibility, not ownership, and must be carried in ways that protect Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and collective wellbeing.

Social justice is lived and practiced. The work of Barabirang Projects seeks to disrupt systems that rely on dispossession, erasure, and inequity, while contributing to futures grounded in dignity, self-determination, and relational care. Engagements that reproduce harm under progressive language are not a fit.

These values exist to orient engagement. They are offered so that those seeking to work together can locate themselves honestly and decide whether alignment is present.

For more information on How Engagement Works please head to that section.