VISION
The perception and creativity to imagine myriad possibilities for transforming the future.
HERITAGE
Heritage describes the range of built, cultural and natural environments. It also includes traditions or living expressions inherited from ancestors and passed on to descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. (UNESCO). Intangible cultural heritage of song and story also deserves recognition.
PRESERVATION
Actions taken to safeguard endangered languages, environs, culture and heritage.
REGENERATION
The action of renewal, that can revive ecosystems, reunite our global community and improve our relationship to the environment through renewing the wellbeing and interconnected nature of people, place and planet.
ECOLOGY
The network of relations and kinship between all living beings, including humans, plants, animals and the natural world.
REPRESENTATION
To make fair, positive and equal portrayal of issues, peoples and culture through the action of speaking up to ensure the inclusion of commonly marginalised voices, peoples and culture in projects and initiatives.
COUNTRY
Country is commonly used to narrate Aboriginal concepts of place. Ethnographer Deborah Bird Rose describes: ’Country as place that gives and receives life. Not just imagined or represented, it is lived in and lived with.Country in Aboriginal English is not only a common noun but also a proper noun. People talk about country in the same way that they would talk about a per- son: they speak to country, sing to country, visit country, worry about country, feel sorry for country, and long for country. People say that country knows, hears, smells, takes notice, takes care, is sorry or happy. Country is not a generalised or undifferentiated type of place, such as one might indicate with terms like ‘spending a day in the country’ or ‘going up the country’. Rather, country is a living entity with a yesterday, today and tomorrow, with a consciousness, and a will toward life. Because of this richness, country is home, and peace; nourishment for body, mind, and spirit; heart’s ease.
CARE
The protection of health, and wellbeing of a person or environs. The importance of seeking equity in systems of gender, culture, race, care, and access to care.