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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 Makuru session at Kwinana Library, Wednesday June 17 from 5.30-7pm, click here to RSVP.
The theme for this season's session is "Grief, loss and coping".
Other sessions will be held on the following dates:
- Wednesday, August 19 (Djilba): Hope and healing
- Wednesday, October 21 (Kambarang): The future we want
This is the fourth 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 Makuru session are:
Starters
- ABC season video: Makuru (3 minute video)
- Poems by Sirajul Islam - Read or listen
- Poems by Ro Hefzu - Read or listen
Mains
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (long novel/audiobook) Chapter 41 (5-10 minute read)
- Robin Wall Kimmerer - Becoming Earth (audio essay)
Dessert
- Ellen Van Neerven - Paper Ships (poem)
- Abbe May - Doomsday Clock (song)
- Anja Christoffersen - NDIS and the cost of a lack of support (Instagram Post)
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.