National Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June) starts today! For the next week Aurion team members have the opportunity to reflect on the part we play – whether big or small – on our journey towards reconciliation, and learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements.
The dates for NRW remain the same each year; 27 May to 3 June. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey – the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.
The Aurion Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) working group are running a three-step challenge for Reconciliation Week.
Step 1: Today, we invite our people to visit the National Reconciliation Week website to learn more about reconciliation in Australia and join one of this week’s online events.
Step 2: Tomorrow they’ll receive an invite to a respectful and inclusive panel discussion next week about our individual experiences and thoughts about reconciliation and how we can see it being advanced.
Step 3: On Friday with a weekend of viewing time infront of us, the Aurion RAP team will send team members a shortlist of carefully curated links to music, books, art and documentary that explore an element of reconciliation.
Here’s a few recommendations from our RAP working group, or join the Reconciliation Film Club to run your own streaming event:
- Documentary series: First Australians (on SBS) – This landmark series chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.
- Film clip: Join the sing-along! I am Australian by kids in isolation (from the ABC)
- Podcast: Listen to this ABC radio Conversations episode with Richard Fidler, Sarah Kanowski on The Science of the Dreamtime
- Facebook: Join the Welcome to Country group which is all about Indigenous communities around Australia and how we can get involved.
Find out more about the Chandler Macleod Group commitment to improving the socio-economic circumstances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with the Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2020 that’s been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.
Do more for National Reconciliation Week:
- Choose from Reconciliation Australia’s 20 ways to be in this together in 2020
- Look for the hashtags #InThisTogether2020 #NRW2020
- Who do you acknowledge in Acknowledgement of Country? AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia
