About.
First Nations Affairs is a governance firm. We specialise in the structural integration of First Nations rights, authority, and accountability into the systems that shape investment, risk, and institutional decision-making across industry, finance, and government.
Our Work.
Governance dictates the decision-making processes, identifies whose interests are recognised, and establishes the mechanisms of accountability over time. For organisations engaged with First Nations rights and interests, governance is the infrastructure that shapes risk, credibility, and enduring legitimacy.
We are the architects of frameworks shaping policy and market practice. Our team has:
Developed the First Nations Minimum Social Safeguards for Australia's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
Co-designed Free, Prior and Informed Consent processes for the CSIRO
Defined First Nations risks and opportunities for the Climate Change Authority's Sector Pathways Review
Worked with the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures to develop their Conceptual Foundations
Developed the First Nations Strategic Alignment Framework
Big ideas, real impact.
We work with investors, energy providers, ASX-listed companies, Aboriginal corporations, banks, universities, peak industry bodies, and state, federal, and multilateral agencies to embed First Nations governance where it has structural consequence.
Founded by Bec Blurton.
Bec Blurton is a Noongar woman and a strategic force in governance, investment, and First Nations leadership. A former Westpac Group Sustainability executive turned national thought leader, she is the founder of First Nations Affairs (FNA), a high-impact advisory reshaping how business, finance, and policy engage with Indigenous rights, risk, and sovereignty.
Bec led the development of the First Nations Minimum Social Safeguards (MSS) for Australia’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and created the First Nations Strategic Alignment Framework (FNSAF), an industry-first benchmark now guiding ESG and governance practices across corporate and policy institutions. She advises boards, CEOs, and regulators on navigating material Indigenous risks and opportunities, and sits on the Technical Working Group for the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD).
With deep expertise spanning Indigenous economic reform, executive coaching, and climate governance, Bec combines lived experience with institutional fluency. She is known for cutting through performative engagement and delivering frameworks that carry weight on Country, in boardrooms, and in global policy spaces.
Bec holds a Graduate Certificate in International Relations (with Distinction) and is currently completing a Master of International Relations, focusing on Indigenous rights, global governance, and international policy frameworks, with a specialisation in Technology Management.
Today, she works exclusively with leaders and institutions who recognise that First Nations engagement is a governance imperative.
