This practice exists for organisations that have moved past the question of whether structural change is necessary, and are ready to address how it happens.
The work offered here is analytical and advisory. It operates upstream - at the level of regulatory governance design, accountability frameworks, and the epistemological assumptions embedded in how health practitioner regulation functions. It is not training, it is not implementation support, and it is not consultation that validates decisions already made.
If that is what you are looking for, the work described below may be the right fit.
My Services
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Every engagement begins here.
A Discovery Session is a bounded, paid consulting project - typically two to three days of intensive analysis - that examines your regulatory environment through an Indigenous knowledge sovereignty lens. It produces a written report assessing your current governance frameworks, identifying where the structural gaps between cultural safety commitment and operational reality sit, and recommending priorities and pathways for transformation.
The Discovery Session protects both parties. You receive expert analysis and clear strategic options before committing to a larger engagement. Your investment in Indigenous expertise is valued from the first interaction, regardless of what follows.
Investment: $3,600–$4,500 depending on organisational complexity.
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For organisations ready to commission substantive analytical and advisory work, project engagements are scoped following a Discovery Session and structured around clearly defined deliverables, timelines, and outcomes.
Project work typically includes regulatory framework analysis, governance design advisory, strategy development and writing, policy development, strategic synthesis, and evidence review. Each engagement is bespoke - scoped to the specific regulatory context, the nature of the structural problem, and the organisation's genuine capacity for transformation.
Project engagements typically range from $12,000 to $40,000, depending on scope and complexity.
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For organisations navigating sustained regulatory transformation, a retainer arrangement provides ongoing access to specialist advisory expertise for complex, time-sensitive issues as they arise.
The retainer is structured around a set number of hours per month - hours that cannot be carried over. This is deliberate. The retainer is designed to maintain a live strategic relationship, not accumulate a reserve of advice. It works best for senior decision-makers who need an independent, sovereignty-grounded perspective available to them consistently across a sustained period of change.
Retainer arrangements are structured at $2,200 - $2,500 per month with a minimum three-month commitment, representing a minimum investment of $6,600 - $7,500.
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The Indigenous Regulatory Community of Practice (IRCoP) is a sovereign knowledge community for Indigenous regulatory practitioners across Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Turtle Island (United States of America and Canada).
Regulatory bodies can support Indigenous practitioners in their workforce and broader regulatory ecosystem through IRCoP organisational membership - providing access to peer connection, collective knowledge, and sovereignty-grounded professional development that institutional environments rarely offer.
Organisational membership is available on an annual basis. Enquire to learn more.
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Indigenous Regulatory Practice welcomes direct approaches from government agencies and health sector organisations seeking a First Nations led specialist for RFQ or tender processes in regulatory policy, cultural safety frameworks, evidence review, and strategic analysis.
If you are developing a procurement process and want to understand whether this practice is the right fit, direct enquiries are welcome before formal submission.
What this practice does not offer
This practice is not the right fit if you are looking for:
Cultural awareness or cultural competency training. Implementation or project delivery. Facilitation of community consultation processes. Advice that validates organisational decisions already made. Engagements where Indigenous expertise is sought for optics rather than genuine structural transformation.
Organisations at the beginning of their cultural safety journey — where the primary need is awareness-raising rather than structural analysis - will be better served by other providers.
All fees are quoted exclusive of GST.