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Reconciliation Action Plan

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners

Our Watch acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land across Australia on which we work and live. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples past and present, and we value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and knowledge.

Our vision for reconciliation

Our Watch shares the Reconciliation Australia vision of a reconciled, just and equitable Australia: an Australia where the voices, experiences and ideas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are central, and where violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children is a thing of the past.

Download our reconciliation action plan and annual actions reports

Action plan for reconciliation

In September 2020, we proudly launched our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan – a key step in progressing our role in preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children and promoting reconciliation. Our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan provides a framework to ensure we have strong foundations in our organisation to:

  • build mutually beneficial relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisation
  • cultivate and continually improve organisational capacity to be respectful and safe in engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations
  • strengthen practices as an employer of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • work effectively alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations in promoting investment, systemic change, and workforce capacity nationally to address the drivers of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children.

The Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan was informed by consultations with more than 65 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and organisations across the country, as well as internal consultation at all levels of our organisation. We thank our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partners and stakeholders around the country for their feedback and insights.

As part of the development of the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, Our Watch commissioned Mangroves by Tarsha Davis, a Kuku Yalanji woman from the Mossman region of Far North Queensland. The Reconciliation Action Plan document was designed by Aboriginal-owned design agency Bayila Creative.

A national responsibility

A national responsibility: Actions towards reconciliation and preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is Our Watch’s series of reports on the actions we are taking towards reconciliation and preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women must be a national priority. Every individual, organisation and community has a responsibility to be part of driving nation-wide change.

We welcome the responses of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, leaders and communities to this report and the work it outlines.

There will be a total of three annual reports. For each reporting year, A national responsibility describes our key partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, how we amplify their work and our role to address the ongoing impact of colonisation within Our Watch.

A national responsibility: Report one covers the year 2021, it is the first of three annual A national responsibility  reports.

A national responsibility: Report two covers the year 2022, it is the second of three annual  A national responsibility reports.