Dr. Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin is a Malay settler living on Yorta Yorta (Shepparton) country for the past seven years. Zubaidah works closely with community groups and utilises her skills to support local grassroots activism. Additionally, she is a researcher at the Department of Rural Health, The University of Melbourne, focusing on areas such as anti-racism, health justice, and access to healthcare. Zubaidah has collaborated with health professionals, service providers, and community organisations to provide culturally sensitive and appropriate support to clients from diverse backgrounds, both in rural and urban areas.
The Victorian Refugee Health Network reiterates it’s auspicing agency’s acknowledgement of country:
The primary locations of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc., Brunswick, Dallas, Dandenong, Sunshine, and our outpost location in Ringwood, are on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation. In keeping with Foundation House’s aspiration to heal individuals and communities we recognise the loss of land, children, language, lore and spiritual and physical wellbeing of the people of the Kulin nation and other Indigenous Victorians due to the impact of colonisation.
We believe that acknowledging the past and its impact on the present is vital in building strong Victorian communities. We recognise the survival and enduring strengths of Victorian Indigenous culture in spite of such dispossession and aim to build respectful and informed relationships with the Victorian Indigenous community based on the acknowledgment of their unique position as the traditional owners of Victoria. As such, Foundation House is committed to the acknowledgment and participation of Indigenous Victorians within Foundation House events and this is reflected in our official protocols.
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