National Reconciliation Week

NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK

Saturday 27 May – Saturday 3 June

We remember and acknowledge the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements. The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2023,

Be a Voice for Generations

… encourages us all to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our every day lives – where we live, work and socialise.

For the work of generations past, and the benefit of generations in the future, let’s choose to create a more just, equitable and reconciled country for all.

We are being invited to support the next steps in Australia’s reconciliation journey, including the Voice to Parliament, treaty making and truth telling. Respectful relationships between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will help us to become a more just and inclusive nation.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.  There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view – you have to enter into the pain of the people.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians.  This is the work we are all called to do.

Shane Claiborne