Representatives visit the land where Waminda's Gudjaga Gunyahlamai Birth Centre will be built.

Gudjaga Gunyahlamai Birth Centre will be Australia's first Aboriginal owned and midwifery-led free standing birth centre.

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00:00We've worked really, really hard to get to where we are today and this piece of sacred

00:22land has been gifted to us and we're very honoured to be here.

00:26Look, I think the work that we've been doing is going to change maternity services for

00:33this country and we always say that what works for our people will work for everybody.

00:39We've done the hard work and it's just incredible to think about the women that will be birthing

00:46here and how they'll be birthing and who they'll be birthing with.

00:49Yeah, look, we've got women who are saying they're waiting and going to have their baby

00:53when the birth centre is built and they're just so excited.

00:57And not only the women and the mums who are going to be birthing here, but our aunties

01:02and our grandmothers.

01:03And when you hear from them, they say, I can't believe I'm going to see this within my lifetime.

01:07So when you have a combination of that and our younger women coming through, feeling

01:13safe and being able to have a say in self-determination and actually experience birth, what it is

01:19meant to be, and how we've always done it pre-colonisation, being able to have that

01:26sacred birthing ceremony and not have it as a medical treatment or a procedure.