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The problem
Disadvantage is a system, not a series of gaps.
You can hit every target on a spreadsheet and still watch good people walk out the door. The problem was never one broken part. It is the way the parts hold each other in place.
How it works
One problem, working at three scales
Indigenous disadvantage shows up in three places at once: the workplaces people walk into, the careers they are trying to build, and the childhoods that decide who gets a fair start. Each one feeds the next.
Fix the hiring but leave the workplace unchanged, and people arrive into the same old culture and leave again. Support a child but give them nowhere safe to work later, and the gain quietly leaks away. The scales are connected, so the work has to be connected too.
What the numbers say
The gap is real, and so is the reason for it
These are not numbers about people falling short. They are numbers about systems that were never built to hold everyone who walks into them. That is the part that can change, and it is the part the Group works on.
So the work has to hold together
This is the whole idea behind Buneen Group. Three organisations, each taking on one scale of the problem, joined by one method and one purpose. Worked separately, these problems pull against each other. Worked together, they start to give.
See how the organisations fit together →