GENDER JUSTICE: EQUALITY AND EQUITY can cook and Mums can have a rest”. In partnership with the Northern Territory Government and the Larapinta Child and Family Centre, they followed up with Girls Can, Boys Can. The campaign declares that “Girls can be brave!” and “Boys can dress up and dance!”, in messages and images that, unlike many mainstream books and resources, feature Aboriginal children and families in a positive and strengthsbased way. Another campaign, Old Ways Are Strong, developed animations to challenge the racist attitude that violence is a part of traditional Aboriginal cultures. An evaluation of these campaigns last year by Dr Chay Brown of The Equality Institute, a global feminist agency working to end violence against women and girls, showed the value of explicit and direct messaging27 or “talking straight”. Importantly, the research also highlighted that there is no primary prevention infrastructure in the Northern Territory to support work that focuses on the causes of violence and no funding of the primary prevention workforce itself.28 violence or health services. They say that current funding in the Northern Territory is unfair, and that populationbased funding should be replaced with needs-based funding to take into account high levels of violence, racism, distance, language and other structural issues. The Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group wants family violence to be seen as a public health emergency involving all sectors, not only domestic ARTWORK: Girls Can, Boys Can campaign, Tangentyere Council Transforming Power: Voices for Generational Change 33