Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan

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The City's Draft Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2021-2023 was endorsed at the June 2021 Council meeting and can be viewed on the City's website. Thank you to everyone who was involved in the development of the Plan.

Over the past two years, the City has been working with key stakeholders and the community to develop the draft RAP, which provides a framework to help us achieve our vision for and commitment to reconciliation.

The draft RAP is a strategic document that will support the City’s operations and activities and includes practical actions that will drive the City’s contribution to reconciliation both internally and in our community. The actions are meaningful yet aspirational and innovative to help us trial new approaches for developing and strengthening relationships, showing respect and improving opportunities for Aboriginal people.

The City has developed the draft RAP in line with Reconciliation Australia’s RAP Framework, which includes four types of RAP to suit organisations at different stages of their reconciliation journey. As the City has already developed and successfully implemented our Aboriginal Engagement Strategy 2013, Reconciliation Australia determined that we should develop our first RAP at the second level, Innovate, which indicates that the City is at the second stage of our reconciliation journey.

The draft RAP includes four sections, called pillars, which are: Relationships, Respect, Opportunities, and Governance. Within these four pillars are goals, actions and deliverables that have been identified to develop and implement over the next two years.

You can find out more about the journey to develop our first Reconciliation Action Plan in the background section below.

Take a look at the video of some members of the community and the City’s Aboriginal Reference Group talking about what the draft RAP means to them.

How can I give feedback?

  • Register or sign in on Your Say South Perth
  • Read the draft Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
  • Complete the online feedback form. Hard copy forms and copies of the draft RAP are available at the Civic Centre and South Perth and Manning libraries.

How can I find out more?

Feedback closed at 4pm, Monday 6 July 2020.

The City's Draft Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2021-2023 was endorsed at the June 2021 Council meeting and can be viewed on the City's website. Thank you to everyone who was involved in the development of the Plan.

Over the past two years, the City has been working with key stakeholders and the community to develop the draft RAP, which provides a framework to help us achieve our vision for and commitment to reconciliation.

The draft RAP is a strategic document that will support the City’s operations and activities and includes practical actions that will drive the City’s contribution to reconciliation both internally and in our community. The actions are meaningful yet aspirational and innovative to help us trial new approaches for developing and strengthening relationships, showing respect and improving opportunities for Aboriginal people.

The City has developed the draft RAP in line with Reconciliation Australia’s RAP Framework, which includes four types of RAP to suit organisations at different stages of their reconciliation journey. As the City has already developed and successfully implemented our Aboriginal Engagement Strategy 2013, Reconciliation Australia determined that we should develop our first RAP at the second level, Innovate, which indicates that the City is at the second stage of our reconciliation journey.

The draft RAP includes four sections, called pillars, which are: Relationships, Respect, Opportunities, and Governance. Within these four pillars are goals, actions and deliverables that have been identified to develop and implement over the next two years.

You can find out more about the journey to develop our first Reconciliation Action Plan in the background section below.

Take a look at the video of some members of the community and the City’s Aboriginal Reference Group talking about what the draft RAP means to them.

How can I give feedback?

  • Register or sign in on Your Say South Perth
  • Read the draft Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan
  • Complete the online feedback form. Hard copy forms and copies of the draft RAP are available at the Civic Centre and South Perth and Manning libraries.

How can I find out more?

Feedback closed at 4pm, Monday 6 July 2020.

  • Background

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    The City of South Perth started its reconciliation journey in 2010, when Council resolved that the City should develop an ‘Indigenous Engagement Strategy’, which was intended to lead to the establishment of a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

    In 2013 the City’s Aboriginal Engagement Strategy was endorsed by Council, and since then the City has been implementing the actions outlined in the Strategy. The majority of the actions have now been met and strong relationships have been built with the local Aboriginal community. Some of the implemented actions include:

    • Establishment and facilitation of Aboriginal Reference Group
    • Acknowledgement of Country and/or Welcome to Country at civic events and functions
    • Aboriginal flag is flown out the front of the Civic Centre
    • Written and oral Aboriginal history in the City’s library collections
    • NAIDOC week celebrations
    • Aboriginal design/art/names included in some City buildings (e.g. meeting rooms)
    • Noongar/Bibbulmun history on the history page of the City’s website
    • Cultural awareness training for City officers and Elected Members
    • Noongar language on some signs in the City, including entry signs.

    As a result of the positive reconciliation work undertaken by the City in recent years, the Aboriginal Reference Group has supported the City to develop this Reconciliation Action Plan.

    Consultation to develop the draft RAP was carried out from June to December 2018 with the Aboriginal Reference Group, the community, stakeholders and Elected Members. The following year Reconciliation Australia gave feedback on the draft RAP. After the local government elections in October 2019, the City’s new Council deferred making a decision on the draft RAP in order to review the document in more detail, which was done through a series of workshops in late 2019. A workshop was also held with members of the Aboriginal Reference Group and the South Perth Residents Association to discuss the draft RAP. In March 2020, Council endorsed the draft RAP to go out for public comment. The Aboriginal Reference Group has provided feedback on the draft RAP ahead of this public comment period.