Reconciliation Day is a public holiday celebrated in the Australian Capital Territory region of Australia. Canberra is the only city in the territory. The holiday is taken on the first Monday on or after May 27th. History of Reconciliation Day ...
‘Be brave and make change’, says the motto for this year’s Reconciliation Week. It’s a good place to start for some of Australia’s most significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers who will take to the stage at the Canberra Theatre for the Reconciliation Day...
But Canberra Indigenous Business Network (CIBN) co-founder and chair Belinda Kendall says it is also a day when every Australian should sit back and reflect on the actions they take in their own lives. “For me, reconciliation should be ‘conciliation’ as we’ve never been ‘concil...
This National Reconciliation Week, which included Reconciliation Day in the ACT on June 1, there are things we can do to understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and lived experience. This has to include listening to – and believing – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
A proposed amendment to the ACT’s current place naming legislation could see the word ‘colonisation’ replaced with ‘reconciliation’. The ACT’sPublic Place Names Act 1989enables the Planning Minister to determine the name of public places across Canberra. ...