The NTGPE Vision for Reconciliation
The NTGPE staff embrace Reconciliation Week 2012 with a social softball game in the spirit of respect and camaraderie
NTGPE embraces the underlying tenets of a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), namely respect, relationships and opportunities. NTGPE has made a commitment to establish and maintain an organisational culture built upon respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their communities and their diverse cultures. NTGPE aims to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within its organisation and in the broader community and to strengthen its relationships with Aboriginal organisations. NTGPE’s RAP process includes ongoing identification of opportunities for reconciliation and taking action on these. NTGPE is committed to ongoing review and evolution of its RAP, embedding it within all activities of the organisation.
After several months consultation and development, NTGPE formally launched its RAP on 23 January 2013. To view the official RAP document, click here.
Reconciliation Week 2013
National Reconciliation Week is celebrated across Australia each year between 27 may and 3 May. The dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey; the
anniversaries of the successful 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision. The theme for this year is Let’s Talk Recognition; with a focus on how Australians can better recognise each other, and recognise the contributions, cultures and histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Lorna ‘Nanna Nungala’ Fejo is the Warumungu woman, named by the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in his historic Apology to the Stolen Generations. Born in the late 1920s, Fejo at just four years of age was forcibly removed from her family and community at Tennant Creek.
NTGPE staff welcomed Lorna Fejo as a guest of honour at an internal National Sorry Day Morning Tea on 24 May 2013.
Download the ‘Recognising Lorna ‘Nanna Nungala’ Fejo’ interview to learn more about her story.
