The First Nations Brief

The national conversation about First Nations peoples has been reduced to documents, targets and annual reports. Strategies get launched. Policies get announced. Plans get signed off. But too little changes in the lives of First Nations peoples, and too few organisations stop to ask why. The First Nations Brief exists to ask why. It's about strategy. Cultural intelligence. Policy development. Evaluation. Social policy. Reconciliation. And the social and political realities First Nations peoples live with every day, which decide whether any of it works. Hosted by Dixie Crawford, founder of Nganya, the show is for the people who design, fund, deliver and measure decisions affecting First Nations peoples. That includes policy makers and public servants, executives and boards, strategy and evaluation professionals, not-for-profit and community sector leaders, reconciliation leads, researchers, and First Nations professionals and leaders. Every episode is a brief: one question, the real problem behind it, and the social and political context that usually gets left out. Dixie then shares her take, drawn from over two decades across government, corporate and community settings, and what leaders can do differently.