We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
Malachi Murljacic is a proud Kunja and Croatian man. His mob are from north-west NSW and south-west QLD, and although he was raised on the south-east coast (Yuin Nation) and in South Australia, his family come from Bourke NSW, a small remote community in the outback along the Barkaa river. He is currently based on Kaurna yarta (land) in South Australia, although he has itchy feet.
Malachi has lived, studied, and worked with, for and alongside international Indigenous peoples in Fiji, Turtle Island (Canada) and Asia in the area’s in Indigenous social entrepreneurship, international relations, and in international non-government organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme in Bangkok, Thailand (2019-20) as a New Colombo Plan scholar.
After the completion of his Bachelor of Business (Major in Entrepreneurial Management) with a focus on learning about Indigenous entrepreneurship, he commenced a career working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy and programs at the National Indigenous Australians Agency, based on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra.
Malachi spends most of his spare time training or in the bush, walking, hiking, camping, traveling and riding mountain bikes.
You can find Malachi on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Rona is a proud Kaytetye woman from Central Australia who works with high impact organisations to create systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and solutions.
Rona is the founder of Common Ground and brings 7 years
of professional experience working across First Nations organisations and not for profits. Rona was previously the Director of First Nations at YLab, a social enterprise that puts young people with diverse lived experiences at the centre of designing and developing innovative and impactful solutions
to complex social issues. Over her career, Rona has worked in policy at the Central Land Council, the Research Unit for Indigenous Languages at the University of Melbourne, Reconciliation Victoria, and the Foundation for Young Australians.In 2020, Rona was a finalist for the Victorian Young Achiever awards, was awarded a Westpac Social Change Fellowship. In 2019 Rona won a Diana Award and was named a 'Woman of the Future' by Women's Weekly.Through her work with First Nations communities across Australia, Rona aims to create future systems that centre First Nations people, knowledge and cultures.Rona currently resides in Mpartnwe on Arrernte Country.
We are a First Nations not-for-profit that exists to centre First Nations people, Country and truth-telling. We acknowledge all First Peoples of this land and celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to Elders and Ancestors who watch over us and guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
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