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Featured Events
Community Connections & Creating Change Reading group
Kwinana Library and Climate Justice Union are bringing together curious minds to read, watch, and listen to authors, poets, artists, and creatives to advance our understanding and actions for a better world.
Next up is our Djilba session at Kwinana Library, Wednesday August 19 from 5.30-7pm, click here to RSVP.
The theme for this season's session is "Hope and Healing".
Other sessions will be held on the following dates:
- Wednesday, October 21 (Kambarang): The future we want
This is the fifth of six sessions with the book club spanning the course of a year.
Each session will be facilitated by Climate Justice Union and have a different theme to align with the Noongar Seasons. There is no expectation to attend every session, you are welcome to attend as many sessions as you wish.
Unlike some book clubs and reading groups we will approach these gatherings similar to a meal with friends.
There are starters, mains, and dessert to choose from.You can read/watch/listen to one resource, or you are welcome to consume them all - as well as make your own suggestions for content to include!
Suggested materials for our 2026 Djilba session are:
Starters
- ABC video - Noongar seasons Djilba (2 minute video)
- 30 days of comics / 2019 : on climate crisis, by Madeleine Jubilee Saito (comic, 2 minute read)
Mains
- The Wrong Canoe chapter from Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta (15 minute read, also available as eAudiobook)
- Prelude: Falling Together, and Epilogue from Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (15 minute read)
Dessert
- Marr Moorditj from Noongar Man by Clive Morrison (poem)
- The Art of Non-Violence, from Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (page 1-5), by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of my Wild Disability Justice Dreams, from Care Work, Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Laskhmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (chapter, 14 pages, 15 minute read)
- Imagination is a muscle: a conversation with adrienne maree brown from Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (chapter, 10 min read)
For program queries please contact programs@kwinana.wa.gov.au or 9236 4300.
These sessions are suitable for adults and youth comfortable in adult environments. The venue will be open from 5:30pm for yarning and a cuppa, please feel free to bring snacks to share.
Click here to RSVP for the in person session.
We acknowledge that we begin our work as The Climate Justice Union on the Boodja (land) of the Wadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We honour the Wadjuk people and their kin in other Nations and Country across these lands and waters, who have always cared for this place and all who lived here.
We acknowledge First Nations Elders past and present, and acknowledge that those of us living here, who came from across the seas, live on land that was taken, stolen. We acknowledge the responsibility that comes with this understanding and that we personally and collectively benefit from this theft.
As such, we all have a responsibility to decolonise ourselves, our lives and work, and to heal the harm these oppressive systems have inflicted.
Click here to read our full acknowledgements
We are a community union and do not cover you in your workplace. All Climate Justice Union members are also encouraged to join the relevant industrial union. Click here to find your industrial Union.