Social media
Indigenous.gov.au uses social media to inform, engage, communicate with and learn from the Australian community. This page explains what each social media channel is used for and the rules around participation.
Social media channels
The primary social media accounts for indigenous.gov.au are:
We use these accounts to:
- to distribute news and updates from the Indigenous.gov.au site
- highlight Indigenous initiatives and activities initiated by the Australian Government.
Indigenous.gov.au may choose to follow organisations and community groups that are interested in or actively discussing Indigenous affairs. You can ask Indigenous.gov.au to ‘unfollow’ you by emailing indigenous.gov.au@niaa.gov.au.
Participation and moderation guidelines
We aim to post relevant, interesting content and welcome your comments and suggestions. We want all members of our social media networks to feel comfortable entering into informed debate and discussion.
We want this to be an open and honest forum. We also want posts to be courteous and to not cause offense, especially to any participants under the age of 18.
In participating on this site, you will be deemed to have agreed to the following terms of use:
- Be respectful of other users of this site.
- Stay on topic and don’t upload content or post a comment that is unrelated to the purpose of this site.
- Don’t post or upload content of a partisan political nature.
- Don’t post or upload content that is offensive, inflammatory or provocative, including swearing or obscene or vulgar comments.
- Don’t post or upload content that is discriminatory.
- Don’t post or upload content that breaks the law or encourage others to do so. This includes defamation, breaching privacy, breaching another person’s intellectual property rights such as copyright, condoning illegal activity and contempt of court.
- Don’t post personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or other online contact details relating either to you or other individuals.
- Don’t impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or an organisation.
- Don’t make any commercial endorsement or promotion of any product, service or publication.
Our social media accounts are moderated and taking the above into consideration, we reserve the right to remove any of the following as not complying with acceptable use:
- Comments, links or images that are partisan political in nature.
- Comments, links or images that are obscene, profane or hateful in nature.
- Comments, links or images that are sexist, racist or discriminatory.
- Comments that threaten any person or organization.
- Comments that defame or harass an individual.
- Successive off-topic posts by a single poster.
- Links to off-topic personal profiles, groups or pages.
- Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple posters.
- Solicitations or advertisements for any political party.
- Comments that encourage illegal activity.
In the event of a post being taken down because it doesn’t comply with acceptable use, the author will be informed of the reason and given the opportunity to resubmit.
Privacy
The identities and contact details of those following the Indigenous.gov.au Facebook page are not recorded unless users choose to voluntarily provide this information. Contact information will only be used for the purpose for which it is provided.
You are reminded that social media sites are a public space on the internet and many interactions are publicly viewable and searchable over time. For more information about the privacy policies of each social media account visit Facebook Privacy Policy, Twitter’s Privacy Policy and Instagram Privacy Policy.
Administration
The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) administers and monitors the indigenous.gov.au social media channels.