During FY23, we continued our work towards reconciliation and engagement with key days of significance, including National Sorry Day, National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week and National Reconciliation Week (NRW).

These days provide an opportunity for our people and customers to engage with initiatives and activations that support learning and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ culture and history and to appreciate the importance of reconciliation.

For NRW, we provided our employees with a list of engagement resources to further enhance their understanding of the part we can all play in supporting and progressing reconciliation. These included resources to listen, watch, learn, along with state-based activities that were held throughout the week.

For NAIDOC Week, we held a Lived Experience Lunch and Learn for our office customers in Sydney. The event was held in partnership with our community partner, Black Dog Institute, with special guest Andrew Bacon, a Yamatji Man from the Murchison Gascoyne Region in Western Australia. Andrew gave insights on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ understanding and experience of mental wellbeing and shared his own mental health journey.

Throughout NRW and NAIDOC Week, our Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation Share-A-Book Campaign collected books from customers in buildings across our portfolio which were donated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to support their learning of language and communications skills.

NAIDOC Week at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Queensland

Indooroopilly Shopping Centre celebrated NAIDOC Week this year collaborating with a local artist, Matt Robert. The artist was commissioned to create an artwork for the centre’s hoarding decal to communicate the story of the local area to centre visitors.

The artwork, Ngalin Ayeye (Our Yarn), included images of the lands on which the centre is located and the connection these lands and surrounding areas have to the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.