Wiyi Yani U Thangani Led by Commissioner Oscar, this multi-year project culminated in the release of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices): Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future (Wiyi Yani U Thangani) report in December 2020. The report builds on the analysis of 109 online submissions, 313 survey responses, and 106 meetings and consultations with 2,294 women and girls across Australia, capturing their strengths, experiences, challenges, and aspirations, and ensuring that their voices are heard and listened to on the issues that affect their lives and communities.6 ‘What keeps me strong is my grandmothers—they didn’t have the power to have a voice and I am bloody determined to make sure my girls have a voice.’ Consultation participant, 2020 The report puts forward a series of principles to guide action, with seven overarching recommendations and four pathways forward. These set out women and girls’ call for actions to transform the ways in which policy, legislation, and programs are designed to respond to their needs and aspirations, and elevate First Nations women and girls’ voices across a broad range of subject areas key to improving gender equality, and their enjoyment of human rights. Propelled by truth-telling, self-determination and healing, the report is the first time in a generation that First Nations women and girls have been heard as a collective since the 1986 Women’s Business report. Following its publication, Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, described the report as a landmark achievement that provides the government with a better understanding of the issues that impact First Nations women and girls, and will be influential in shaping the direction of future Government policy towards shared decision making and partnership with First Nations Australians. In this reporting period, Commissioner Oscar and her team commenced ‘Stage Two’ of the project. Using the report as a tool for dialogue and support to take action, the team have taken a multipronged approach to socialising the report across Australia (Figure 2). Annual Report 2020–2021 Australian Human Rights Commission 35