Sally Scales

Sia Duff

Sally Scales is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Pipalyatjara in the far west of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in remote South Australia. She is the youngest person ever elected as Chairperson of the APY Executive Board Council, and the second women to hold the position. Sally has worked with the APY Art Centre Collective since 2013 in cultural liaison, elder support and spokesperson roles. Sally is part of the youth leadership team for the Uluru Statement reform, having been involved in the Referendum Council’s Constitution regional dialogues in Ross River, Adelaide and national convention in Uluru in 2017.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.