Josephine Cashman
Josephine Amy Cashman is an Aboriginal Australian lawyer and entrepreneur, of Warrimay heritage. Cashman was an inaugural member of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council in 2013, appointed by Tony Abbott. She has addressed a UN Human Rights Council session focussing on violence against Indigenous girls and women.
Josephine is a former Crown Prosecutor, a lawyer and a businesswoman with more than two decades of experience working towards economic progress for Aboriginal people. She sits on the Board of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. Josephine was selected as a friend of the Commonwealth Treasury in 2016 and in 2018, and was an honoured recipient of the UTS Faculty of Law Alumni Award for Excellence. She has undertaken numerous consultancy and voluntary roles for a variety of private, public and not-for-profit organisations.
In 2016, Josephine founded the Big River Impact Foundation (BRIF), an Indigenous philanthropic entity committed to community involvement in decision making and economic freedom for Aboriginal people. BRIF aims to transition Indigenous people away from welfare dependency towards economic freedom. Josephine has also founded One Voice Australia, which is committed to a united Australia.
Articles by Josephine Cashman:
17 July 2023
3.6 MINS
To understand Australia's managed decline, just look at Wilcannia, once the "Queen of the West”. A thriving community, with a golf course; generous-sized sandstone shops, built to last forever, sitting alongside tree-lined, wide country streets. Today, the shops are boarded up. I was in Wilcannia [...]
9 August 2022
2.8 MINS
The furore over Rio Tinto's mining activities affecting a purported Aboriginal heritage site in the Juukan Gorge is simply manufactured outrage. Activists are sowing division, even attempting to affect foreign policy. A hyped-up media storm, a fabricated outrage. A decades-long plan to steal the resources [...]
15 December 2021
12.8 MINS
Rampant corruption under the guise of Indigenous rights activism has disenfranchised Aboriginal people over recent decades. Can we stop the rot and start anew? “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people [of] that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I [...]
1 September 2021
6.5 MINS
Documents released yesterday by Aboriginal organisation Your Life Your Vote: Take Control show Federal Labor leader and Leader of the Opposition, Anthony Albanese, ignored Wilcannia Aboriginal women when they visited Parliament House in February last year (24 February 2020) and did not even apologise for [...]
25 August 2021
4 MINS
Indigenous leaders are incensed over the conflation of traditional Aboriginal culture and the Wiggles' new LGBT-friendly iteration. Australian children’s entertainers The Wiggles have been criticised for adopting diversity advice that effectively amounts to grooming children into “woke” gender and sexual fads, which have no place [...]
24 August 2021
3.8 MINS
Wilcannia: a case study in unforeseen problems and decades of ongoing political incompetence. New South Wales is now in the middle of a state-wide Covid-19 lockdown, which poses a major threat to Aboriginal communities across the state. One case study, Wilcannia in western NSW, highlights [...]
7 August 2021
3.6 MINS
Ridiculous and divisive race-based ideology must be kept out of Australia’s school curriculum, parliament and constitution. The Your Life Your Vote: Take Control national committee has voted to run two petitions opposing attempts by unrepresentative groups to impose divisive and ridiculous race-based ideology on Australia. [...]
6 August 2021
3.5 MINS
Latest Closing the Gap report again highlights the waste, incompetence and corruption endemic in Australia’s Aboriginal affairs industrial complex The latest Closing the Gap report, released yesterday, again highlights the waste, incompetence & corruption endemic in Australia’s Aboriginal affairs industrial complex, Your Life Your Vote: [...]
27 July 2021
6.5 MINS
Most Australians view police as protectors and have trust and respect for their authority. Unfortunately, this belief does not extend so readily through indigenous society. Indigenous women are not only distrustful of police, they face enormous barriers in reporting violence in that abusers are frequently [...]
20 July 2021
12.3 MINS
I still believe there is nothing you can change from outside; you can scream your head off, you can fight and no-one is going to take any damn notice if they don’t want to. Someone within the system has to stand up and put forward [...]
15 July 2021
2.5 MINS
Polling booth figures in far north Queensland and the Northern Territory provide an insight into the extent to which Aboriginal people are used as “polling booth fodder” by the Australian Labor Party, Your Life Your Vote: Take Control said today. Your Life Your Vote: Take [...]
13 July 2021
3.1 MINS
A new Indigenous organisation -- Your Life Your Vote: Take Control -- was launched last week on 8 July 2021, with the aim of stopping the Labor Party, the Greens, and other extreme Left-wing political movements from using Aboriginal votes to pursue ineffective economic policies [...]
7 July 2021
28.7 MINS
The crushing of the Aboriginal people by state-sanctioned fake leaders. 'I shall play the role of my State of Queensland, my Aboriginal race, my background, my political beliefs and my knowledge of men and circumstances dictate. This I shall do through the grace of God [...]
7 July 2021
4.3 MINS
1. In 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt appointed H.C. Nugget Coombs as Chairman of a new Council of Aboriginal Affairs. 2. In 1972, the Whitlam Government established the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which was to become the first national body elected by Aborigines. Although its [...]
29 June 2021
7.7 MINS
2018 speech: I wish to acknowledge the custodians of this land, the Turrbal clan of the Jagera people and their Elders past and present. I acknowledge their continuing culture, especially their contribution to Australian life. I recognise we are working on their traditional country. I [...]
24 June 2021
1.9 MINS
I am inspired by the fact the Southern Cross constellation is inscribed on our Australian flag. I want to share this with you: You know stars have always been integral to ancient cultures and have been especially useful for navigation. Our people gazed at the [...]
16 June 2021
3.5 MINS
The Voice must not proceed because the following have not been addressed: The Uluru Statement Australians support equality of opportunity. The ALP and the Greens are using Aboriginal disadvantage in order to push their maligned agendas, which place at risk our democratic principles and economic [...]
9 June 2021
10.3 MINS
Aboriginal Family Violence Policing Conference 2018 -- Keynote Address I want to start by acknowledging the fact the majority of Indigenous Australians do the right thing. Most of us are proud of our cultural heritage and we are keen to build fulfilling lives for our [...]