Gundungurra & Dharug Country, NSW, 4 March, 2026 When the Western calendar turns, we are often encouraged to pause and reflect on what has been achieved and what lies ahead. In community-led health services and research, there is rarely a clean break between one year and the next. The work continues across seasons, across holidays, across funding cycles, and across Country and Worlds. Like birthing itself, it unfolds in its own time. Photo credit: Sarah Ireland. I work across

Gundungurra & Dharug Country, NSW, 29 November, 2025. After a year of iterative writing, long discussions, and countless script revisions, we’re excited to share that our second documentary is now in the final stages of production, following in the strong footsteps of our first international award-winning film DJÄKAMIRR. Last September, we began a deep dive into three years’ worth of run ‘n’ gun  field footage, hundreds of hours captured across Yolŋu Country. (If you missed

Yolŋu Country, Northern Territory. 4 November, 2025. The Molly Wardaguga Institute in partnership with the Womb to Tomb Foundation , recently delivered six days of face-to-face Djäkamirr Training in Galiwin’ku. Six Yolŋu women stepped forward with courage and curiosity to train as djäkamirr, completing the theory component of the five-unit nationally accredited course. Our venue this time around was the comfortable Martharkal Homeland Health Service Training Room and we we

Yolŋu Country, Northern Territory, 26 October 2025. Like the seasons that are on the cusp of change, our project is also shifting — moving from a research initiative into a Yolŋu-owned maternity companionship service. It’s a milestone worth pausing for, a time to look back on years of listening deeply, challenging respectfully, and pushing forward with heart and purpose. Photo credit: Sarah Ireland. Island sunset at prospective Birth Centre site Galiwin'ku. Waminda Visits Yol