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Amnesty’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026

Alyawarr children watch Aboriginal stockmen unload brumbies (wild horses) at the Arlparra stockyards, Northern Territory, Australia, August 2009. Background: In 2007, the Australian Government launched an intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. To enact the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation and to implement the intervention, the Australian Government suspended the Racial Discrimination Act and Northern Territory anti-discrimination legislation. More than 45,000 Aboriginal people are now subject to racially discriminatory measures, including the acquisition of Indigenous land and the compulsory and blanket quarantining of social security payments in 73 Northern Territory communities. For many, these measures have stripped them of their dignity and further contributed to a deep sense of exclusion and voicelessness. Amnesty International is calling for laws designed to protect people from discrimination to be immediately reinstated without any loopholes. Alyawarr children watch Aboriginal stockmen unload brumbies (wild horses) at the Arlparra stockyards, Northern Territory, Australia, August 2009. Background: In 2007, the Australian Government launched an intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. To enact the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation and to implement the intervention, the Australian Government suspended the Racial Discrimination Act and Northern Territory anti-discrimination legislation. More than 45,000 Aboriginal people are now subject to racially discriminatory measures, including the acquisition of Indigenous land and the compulsory and blanket quarantining of social security payments in 73 Northern Territory communities. For many, these measures have stripped them of their dignity and further contributed to a deep sense of exclusion and voicelessness. Amnesty International is calling for laws designed to protect people from discrimination to be immediately reinstated without any loopholes.

Amnesty is honoured to work closely with the oldest continuing culture in the world. We value the relationships we have with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

To be an effective human rights organisation, we’ll continue working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their fight for justice in order to achieve meaningful reconciliation among all Australians. Our Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026 is one of the many mechanisms we’ll use to progress reconciliation efforts within our organisation, our movement and across the nation.

“Reconciliation is intrinsic to our organisation as it speaks to the very core of our work championing human rights for everyone. Our futures are bound together and as such we are committed to truth, justice and reconciliation for all Australians”. -Samantha Klintworth, National Director, Amnesty International Australia

Our vision for reconciliation is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live free from discrimination and they have equal access to justice outcomes as the rest of the Australian community. It’s our vision that race relations amongst all Australians are healed and greatly improved and that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are a shared national identity.

We want to see equality in life outcomes relating to health, education, housing and justice between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We are also committed to creating an inclusive, representative, anti-racist and culturally safe movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, activists and community partners within Amnesty.

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We’ll bring our vision for reconciliation to life by:

  • continuing our ‘Community is Everything’ campaign alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to address some of the challenges faced by those communities. The ‘Community is Everything’ is an umbrella campaign that includes the Raise the age campaign, campaign to ban police cages to transport children in the Northern Territory, Youth justice reform campaign in Tasmania, Indigenous youth justice campaign, and campaign to end children in police lockups in Queensland,
  • educating Australians on the ongoing impacts of historical wrongs, injustices and inequalities through the launch of our public human rights education program so these injustices do not occur again,
  • continuing our Deaths in Custody campaign,
  • educating our staff, volunteers, activists and supporters about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s diverse cultures, lands, history and more to increase their cultural proficiency and to improve cultural safety for First Nations staff,
  • building strong, sustainable relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, leaders, organisations and councils. This RAP, our Engagement Strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people communities and organisations and People Powered Strategy will guide us in prioritising partnerships, collaborations and relationships with the communities,
  • demonstrating respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities by embedding cultural protocols as part of the way our organisation functions and celebrating and supporting key dates, events and campaigns,
  • increasing employment and progression opportunities within our organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,
  • broadening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s representation within our movement and governance structures including our membership, board, activism leadership committees, volunteer and activist base, and
  • creating a culturally safe movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
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