Current Forum

Being the Other: Inclusion Unmasked

We invite you to join us at our Being the Other: Inclusion Unmasked forum on Friday 8th November in Surf Coast.

“Inclusion” is a term that is overused and not quite understood, we know that many people are still left out.

We will hear from Aunty Wendy Brabham, a prominent elder who will open the forum and yarn with us together with other representatives from the First Nations community from the Geelong region.

The other speakers represent various perspectives from literature to racial literacy, systems thinking and disability: Dr. Grace Chan, Dr. Nilmini Fernando, Andrew Fitisemanu, Téa O’Driscoll, Helen Freris and Hannah Mattingley (operations manager – All Aboard) who will all share their respective insights into what inclusion is in reality and how it should be instead.

Join this critical conversation, it is not a one way conversation, we rely on your participation to drive the conversation.

View the program below:

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We’d love to hear your thoughts! This is a space for open dialogue, and your perspective can really enrich the conversation. Reserve your spot—limited seats available!

About Our Forums

As an advocate for Human Rights and a voice for creating change, Track C Consulting is proud to host forums and shine light on critical issues impacting the community, we speak up when others shy away from serious conversations.

In November 2021, we held our inaugural Diversity & Inclusion forum hosting close to 60 representatives from various LGA’s, Victorian Government Department, and not for profit organisations. Our remarkable guest speakers included Nyadol Nyuon and Terori Hareko-Avaivilla who engaged the audience in a heart to heart conversation about the impact of exclusion, drawing from their lived experience and their tireless advocacy work in the community. 

In July 2022, in a bold move and in showing our solidarity with those who experience racism everyday in this country, we presented Racism, Raw & Real forum, the first forum of its kind in the Geelong region. With an outstanding lineup of speakers including the award winning author and public speaker Claire G Coleman, Leesa Timbi, Catherine Jonathan and Lowell Hunter, the forum provided the audience with a rare opportunity to engage in a meaningful dialogue about Racism with people who have lived it and continue to experience it everyday. Once again, the forum was warmly received, and we had close to 80 representatives from various LGA’s, the arts community and the not-for-profit sector in attendance.

In July 2023, we hosted the inaugural Gender Equality forum in Geelong hosting close to 90 representatives from various LGA’s, Victorian Government and the not-for-profit sector as well as representatives from the community. We heard from Sarah Ayoub, writer and journalist who opened the forum urging us to pay attention to the intersection of gender and race in literature and journalism. We then immersed ourselves in a profound panel discussion comprising Aunty Nellie Flagg, Kgshak Akec and Sultan Cinar who presented very different and unique perspectives on role of women in the community and the challenges they face.

We concluded the forum with Nos Hosseini, an Iranian/Australian lawyer and human rights advocate raising awareness about the female led revolution in Iran.