We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Elders, Ancestors and leaders of the Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands ILBIJERRI Theatre Company is based.
We extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, recognising their resilience and ongoing connection to land, water and culture, despite ongoing colonial interruption and genocide.
Always was, always will be, sacred Indigenous land.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples should be advised that this website may contain images of deceased persons.
BULLYMEN & ME
A major new national theatre project by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company
Help us raise $40,000 to gather testimonies from First Peoples young people and families across Australia.
Across this country, Aboriginal children as young as ten are being imprisoned.
A First Peoples child is twenty-seven times more likely to be incarcerated than a non-Indigenous child. In some youth detention centres, almost every child inside is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
For many communities, this is not an isolated failure of policy. It is the continuation of a system that removes children from family, culture and Country. A system many describe as a second Stolen Generation.
In the Northern Territory, police are often called “Bullymen.”
In the Kimberley: Yirrgal-Ngarri — “men with rope.”
In Redfern-Waterloo: Gunjibal.
These names carry generations of lived experience.
Now, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company is creating a bold new national work that asks Australia to listen.
