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Reconciliation

Please be aware that this page may link to resources that contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.

Building relationships for change

Learn more at Reconciliation Australia.

Image of National Close the Gap Day poster with text: Visit Oxfam to get involved in the National Close the Gap Day, a movement to reduce the 17-year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians.

Read more about what Oxfam is doing to promote reconciliation in Australia.

Read about the Indigenous struggle for rights at the Australian Government Culture Portal.

Video resources online

Visit Reconcile.org to see young Australians such as Missy Higgins and Silverchair speak about reconciliation, listen to different perspectives on reconciliation and hear songs from artists such as the John Butler Trio.

Watch young Indigenous Australians speaking about reconciliation at the ABC’s Indigenous portal. View photos or download the program of reconciliation in action at Kodja Place. Download clips of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations.

Generation One.Learn about  the movement to bring ALL Australians together to end the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in one generation. Link to site.

Video clips to consider reconciliation. Australian Screen. Clip 1: My Country—from the film My Mother’s Country—has Indigenous Australians revisiting the site of the Coniston massacre.

Clip 3: The football clinic—from the film Marn Grook—demonstrates the essence of reconciliation.

More resources for reconciliation

View Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation resources, and use such things as the learning circle toolkit.

Read the research paper Dispossession to Reconciliation at the Parliamentary Library. Keep up-to-date with current issues and campaigns at Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation.

Find more resources relating to reconciliation from CLI. See also Sites2See: The apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples and Sites2See: Customary law.

Activities

Use the Australian Human Rights Commission’s educational materials on indigenous rights. Explore a reconciliation timeline. Examine a cartoon on the apology, then do this activity.

Use the Online Education Kit, from ReconciliACTIONnsw. Develop your own reconciliation action plan, or get involved and organise your own Close the Gap event.

Syllabus links

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