The recipient of the Sidney Myer Fund and Pride Foundation Australia grant for $20,000 is Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS).
In collaboration with the St Kilda Legal Service (SKLS), RACS will deliver two national training sessions for legal services, exploring best practice for working with persons that identify as LGBTIQA+ and make claims for protection due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, or where their LGBTIQA+ status makes them additionally vulnerable.
Pride Foundation Australia acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate, in so-called Australia. We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and that it always was, and always will be Aboriginal land. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present.
Pride Foundation Australia pays respect to the traditional custodians of the land and sea on which we live, work and play, we pay our respects to Elders past and present, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.
Pride Foundation Australia commits through the resources we have available to us, to work with, for, and alongside Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples and communities to embed a self-determined future.
We further commit the contribution of a significant proportion of grant funding received to Aboriginal Torres Strait South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy led initiatives to improve social outcomes.
Australia was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.
