On Bundjalung Country in northern NSW there's a beautiful spot where the creek flows into the ocean, a place where Amelia Telford's family used to gather to mark important occasions like Christmas Day and funerals.
Amelia Telford is launching SEED, which is the first Indigenous-led environment organisation in Australia.Ms Telford, a Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman, is the national director of Seed Mob, which launched today as the first Indigenous-led environment organisation in Australia. Until now, Seed Mob operated as a program of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Australia’s largest youth-run organisation. It started in 2014 after 50 young Aboriginal people from all over Australia came together at a summit and decided the climate movement was not a space where Aboriginal people felt supported, and they wanted self-determination.