Power Wiradjuri, Tamara, Geia Bwgcolman, Lynore, Wilson Ngāti Tahinga, Denise, Clark Ngāpuhi, Terryann C., West Kalkadoon, Roianne, and Best Gorreng Gorreng, Boonthamurra, Odette (2022) Cultural Safety: Beyond the rhetoric. Contemporary Nurse, 58 (1).

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We acknowledge the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples across the Earth as the traditional custodians of Country, and their timeless and embodied relationships with cultures, communities, lands, waters, and sky. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present, particularly those who led the way, allowing us to realise our own calling to be healers.

In this second iteration of a two-part special issue on Cultural Safety, we the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand members of the guest editorial team would like to take this opportunity to draw attention to two contemporary examples of institutional racism in nursing and midwifery care in our respective countries. Despite decades of Indigenous activism, antiracism educational initiatives, and regulatory reforms, racism continues to be an endemic oppressive element in nursing and midwifery, and health systems. Despite Indigenous knowledges, anti-racism and Cultural Safety mandates being embedded in our professional standards and codes of conduct (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, Citation2018; Nursing Council of New Zealand, Citation2011), we are forced to continue to interrogate the ongoing practice of culturally unsafe nursing and midwifery care.

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