First Nations stakeholders

Turn Up Respect Hero Video

The ‘Turn Up Respect’ hero video is narrated by First Nations Ambassador, Nooky, a proud Yuin and Thunghutti man, rapper, producer and founder of the ‘We Are Warriors’ program for youth. The video encourages First Nations people to ‘Turn Up Respect’ and silence the disrespectful influence of powerful new social media influencers who are targeting young people and fuelling disrespect towards women and girls.

Featuring the stories of people and prevention programs that are teaching respect in community, the video celebrates the difference supporting women and empowering young people to learn about respectful relationships can make to stopping violence against women at the start.

Turn Up Respect in your community

We’d like you to help Turn Up Respect in your community. There’s lots of resources available at the First Nations Resource Hub to help you turn down the noise and turn up respect.

You’ll find resources to help you host your own community screening of the Turn Up Respect documentary and cutdowns, fact sheets, posters and social tiles to learn about the online voices of disrespect that can lead to violence.

Turn Up Respect Animation

This animation shows First Nations parents and carers what our young people might see online and how that could badly influence their behaviour

Our young people learn how things are done from each of us.

Mums and dads, aunties, uncles, nans and pops, Elders, brothers and sisters, teachers, friends.

Our kids learn from us every day.

But these days, there are new voices our kids are listening to, and some of them can be real bad.

On the internet and social media, there are lots of influencers and people who get in our kids' ears and spread nasty and disrespectful stuff.

If our kids hear enough of these online voices, it can lead them to say or do bad things in the real world.

Our kids may not deliberately want to hear or see bad stuff, or even realise it's bad at first.

But once they watch one of these videos, engage with a post, or search or share content amongst friends, the social media algorithm thinks they want to see more.

So more and more will show up in their feed.

It's like if you watch one funny dog video, all of a sudden you'll be shown hundreds of them.

Unfortunately, there's nothing funny about what our kids might be seeing and hearing and how it affects their attitudes towards women and girls.

Sexist attitudes.

Women should obey their partner.

Plain and simple.

Men hating on women.

Girls lie.

We need to teach them a lesson.

Nasty, hateful language.

You let a woman walk all over you.

You're weak.

Treating women like objects.

Look at the way she dresses, you know she wants it. And on and on and on.

Seeing and hearing these things can give our young people the wrong idea about how women and girls should be treated.

And like a disease, those attitudes can spread.

You neg someone, you insult them while pretending to give them a compliment.

It gives you control.

Bro, stop being such a simp. If you're a simp, you're not a real man.

You're submissive to women.

Oh! A gyatt is a girl's deadly round butt.

The disrespectful noise can be overpowering for our kids.

But the more we know about what they're seeing and hearing, the more we can help muffle and turn off those voices.

Turning down the hate and turning up respect.

Showing our kids that disrespect towards women has never been our way, our culture.

Encouraging them to challenge what they see and hear online and to speak up when they see others spreading hate and disrespect.

So that we can stop disrespect spreading from the online world into the real world.

Learn how you can help our kids drown out the bad influences online at respect.gov.au

And let's stop the disrespect that can lead to violence at the start.

Let's turn up respect.

An image of an artwork. The artist Jasmine Miikika Craciun say, "The artwork represents hardness and softness coming together — showing how care and support can stop violence against women at the start."

Turn Up Respect, by Jasmine Miikika Craciun

Jasmine Miikika Craciun is a proud Barkindji, Malyangapa woman from Newcastle.

The artwork represents hardness and softness coming together — showing how care and support can help stop violence against women at the start.

‘The overlapping shapes represent abstract figures reaching out offering support. The figures are like windows, looking through the bright overtones to a darker layer beneath, reminiscent of peering behind the layers of a digital screen. The texture represents the pixels or noise within a screen, acknowledging the new threat coming from the online world, whilst the circle and line pattern shows love and softness. The base layer is sharp and grungy, with the top layer softening the harshness - together telling the story of overcoming negative influences and violence.’

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Turn Up Respect Hero Video

Turn Up Respect in your community

Turn Up Respect - 60 sec Trailer

Turn Up Respect – Short Documentary

Turn Up Respect – We Are Warriors

Turn Up Respect – YoungN Deadly Dijun Way

Turn Up Respect – Banatjarl Strongbala Wimun Grup

Turn Up Respect – U Right Sis?

Turn Up Respect – Kayin Ipikazil

Turn Up Respect – 30 sec

Turn Up Respect Animation

Turn Up Respect, by Jasmine Miikika Craciun