Programs and Initiatives

Participants learn an Indigenous dance at the launch of Our Uluru Response trustbuilding project at Armagh

Trustbuilding

Supporting justice and reconciliation

Learn from traditional wisdom of Australia’s First Peoples and elders, and see our country with fresh eyes. Respond to our nation's need for remembrance, respect, and restoration.

The Trustbuilding Project builds our collective capacity to listen. We create opportunities for truth hearing and truth telling about past and present injustices, as the basis for new understanding. We apply shared principles and values in places where trust has been broken.

Through a three-year Trustbuilding Project, Initiatives of Change (IofC) Australia is working in partnership with First Nations leaders to build relationships of trust and respect between First Nations, mainstream, and migrant communities in Australia.

The Trustbuilding Project works in partnership with First Nations partners, including Uncle Shane Charles, a Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung man, First Nations community leader and educator, and Co-Chair of Reconciliation Victoria.

 

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Johnny Huckle entertaining the audience at Samvaad
24-Dec-2019

Raymond Finn, Johnny Huckle and Andrew Flynn participate in the 6th annual Samvaad Tribal Festival in Jamshedpur, India and visit Nagaland.

02-Sep-2019

Indigenous broadcaster and community leader Susan Moylan-Coombs spoke at Armagh about what Treaty could mean for Australia.

L-R: Justin Bergholcs, Susan Moylan-Coombs and Jennifer Moylan on wash-up duty at the Asia Plateau conference.
29-Mar-2019

Australian Indigenous broadcaster and community leader, Susan Moylan-Coombs, addressed the ‘Breaking Barriers, Building Trust’ conference at Asia P

14-Sep-2018

The Uluru Statement in May 2017 was the best chance Australia had to meaningfully address the legacy of our colonial past.

Poster produced by Batchelor Press/Batchelor Institute to commemorate the day Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the stolen generation (13th February 2008).
12-Feb-2018

IofC worker John Bond served as Secretary of the National Sorry Day Committee from 1998 to 2006, campaigning for the national apology that was fina

11-Jul-2017

The killing, murder and massacre of indigenous Australians as the British settlers took their land were often known as the Frontier Wars.