RIAA’s First Nations Peoples’ Rights Working Group is an initiative to support members in their stewardship responsibilities respecting First Nations peoples’ rights in their business operations and their portfolio of companies.

The First Nations Peoples’ Rights Working Group has a three-fold purpose: advance the rights of First Nations peoples; elevate First Nations peoples’ participation and voices in the investment sector; and increase access, scale and impact of First Nations peoples’ related investment activity.

Co-Chair

William Leak

Co-Chair

Manager of Working Groups

Highlights

Investor Toolkit: An Investor Focus on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Cultural Heritage Protection

Get involved

Working groups are open to all RIAA members. If your organisation is not a RIAA member and would like to participate in a working group, take a look at our Membership Guide and join RIAA today.

If you’d like to find out more about the First Nations Peoples’ Rights Working Group, contact jess@responsibleinvestment.org.

Learn more about RIAA’s involvement in the Dhawura Ngilan Business and Investor Initiative.

About the artist

Daen Sansbury-Smith is a Narungga and Trawoolwaway content producer, visual artist and founder of Adjadura Art (My peoples art in Narungga). Sansbury-Smith has produced countless art works over the past 15 years as a self exploratory process producing gifts to decorate family homes of reinterpreted culture stories. In 2020 Sansbury-Smith’s debut solo Art Exhibition was a success despite Melbourne lockdowns, developing the ‘Black Crow’ Augmented Reality art series currently on tour at multiple galleries nationally. Sansbury- Smith original artworks utilise charcoals and ochre with his children, putting his cultural knowledge onto canvas, providing a safe space for them to watch and learn. Sansbury- Smith’s art works are representation of Narungga and Palawa stories, art and culture. Sansbury-Smith maps Ancestral memory and connection to country, sharing stories of pre and post-contact Aboriginal history and culture. This mapping draws upon cultural design of huge importance to Sansbury-Smith.