Waraba Services
WARABA, led by Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Shine, empowers organisations through cultural leadership and lived experience. With motivational speaking and workplace programs, WARABA helps businesses unite corporate values with Indigenous knowledge to build stronger, more inclusive teams.
How WARABA Benifits Your Company
Benefits come in many forms—education, collaboration, reputation, integrity, and more. WARABA offers something unique: helping your company prepare for and support the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, alongside their non-Indigenous peers.
Are you ready?
Are you equipped to support the aspirations and cultural beliefs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff?
Can your workplace culture reconcile with the world’s oldest living culture?
WARABA shows organisations how to walk culturally together—teaching corporate values while embracing Indigenous knowledge. Guided by Peter’s lived experience as a member of the Stolen Generations, WARABA’s programs bring together truth, integrity, honesty, and acceptance.
Our Services
Motivational Speaking
Peter’s journey from the Stolen Generations to earning multiple degrees and leadership roles inspires resilience, education, and hope.
Corporate Leadership Development
Peter helps organisations and young leaders embrace true leadership by combining Indigenous traditions with modern approaches, grounded in respect, inclusivity, collaboration, and valuing every voice equally.
Cultural Leadership & Workplace Progression
Peter shows how Indigenous values of community, collective decision-making, and stewardship shape modern, inclusive, and future-focused workplaces.
WARABA
In the creation-style story, from the Gamilaroi people (also spelled Kamilaroi, Gomeroi), a Turtle named Waraba is tasked by the supreme creator to trade his speed and agility for a shell to carry knowledge, restore lands damaged by "garriya," and bring the culture of neighbouring peoples back to his own people. This transformation of Waraba brings the creator's knowledge and culture to Gamilaroi, establishing them as creators themselves.
The supreme creator, from whom all things originate, asks Waraba to sacrifice his great speed and agility. In return, Waraba must carry a shell that holds all the knowledge and traditions of Gamil and the surrounding lands.
Waraba is also tasked with repairing the destruction caused by a destructive force named "garriya". After fulfilling these duties, Waraba returns to his homeland, the lands of Gamilaroi.
By bringing back the songs, lore, dance, and ways of their neighbours, Waraba makes Gamilaroi a creator culture. Araba brings knowledge and wisdom to his people,
This story is a significant part of the Gamilaroi spiritual understanding, involving a central figure, a powerful destructive force, and the transmission of knowledge and culture, aligning with themes of resilience, courage, and teaching.
Who is our director
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Meet Peter Shine
Adjunct Associate Professor Peter Shine
A proud Gadigal/Gomeroi man from Northwest NSW, and directly impacted by Australia’s Aboriginal protection policy, Peter Shine has dedicated his life to advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.
Formerly the Executive Director of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health & Workforce at NSLHD, his expertise spans health equity, social and emotional wellbeing, and culturally safe care.
A strong advocate, Peter works tirelessly to dismantle racism in health systems and promote inclusive, responsive services that improve outcomes for Indigenous communities.
