In this episode, Siwan chats with Richie Allan about reconciliation and the importance of listening to Indigenous perspectives, particularly when it comes to our rivers. Richie comes from the Kamilaroi and Ngunnawal nations and is co-Director of the Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation. Richie has been working with the ARRC over the last year to help us develop a Reconciliation Action Plan. Today we are talking to Richie about what reconciliation means to him and how we might, through our individual and organisational actions, continue along the path of recognising, respecting and reconciling our past with the future and how our individual actions can contribute to reconciling Australia.
In this episode, Siwan chats with Richie Allan about reconciliation and the importance of listening to Indigenous perspectives, particularly when it comes to our rivers. Richie comes from the Kamilaroi and Ngunnawal nations and is co-Director of the Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation. Richie has been working with the ARRC over the last year to help us develop a Reconciliation Action Plan. Today we are talking to Richie about what reconciliation means to him and how we might, through our individual and organisational actions, continue along the path of recognising, respecting and reconciling our past with the future and how our individual actions can contribute to reconciling Australia.
For more information on the Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, please visit www.traditional-owners.com.au
This year’s Reconciliation Week marks 55 years since Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians were formally recognised in the Australian census, and 30 years since the Australian High Court delivered its ruling on the Mabo case, paving the way for legal recognition of Indigenous Australians as custodians and owners of their land through Native Title. We still have a long way to go.
Some resources on reconciliation
- Call it out: Website to report and call out anytime you witness racial discrimination towards First Nations people.
- What is unconscious bias?
- National Reconciliation Week
- Map of Indigenous Australia – Whose country am I on?
- The Koori History Project, information on 240 years of Indigenous history under colonial Australia.
- Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017) – calling for an Indigenous voice in the Constitution and a Commission into truth-telling and agreement making between First Nations people and the Government.
- Key actions the Federal Government should be implementing towards reconciliation after the election.
