Over the past few years, EWB Australia has been developing deeper connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations. This is a great privilege and has provided the opportunity for our staff, partners and volunteers to listen and learn.
Today, as we celebrate NAIDOC Week, we are proud to launch our 2025-2028 Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan. This plan builds on the solid foundation of our four previous RAPs and brings reconciliation into sharper focus as we step into a new chapter of deepened relationships and strengthened accountability.
Our 2021-2023 Innovate RAP and the development of our Cultural Learning Strategy provided a chance to ask, “What individual and organisational change is needed for this to happen?” Our new Stretch RAP asks, “How can we go further?”
To celebrate the launch of our Stretch RAP, we are delighted to share new artwork by Ngemba Weilwan artist Polly Wilson, which features on the cover of the RAP. The artwork represents our connection to people and Country across Australia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu. The piece weaves together elements of community, sustainability and collaboration — symbolising our values and focus areas, and honouring First Nations peoples as the original engineers.
Thank you to our RAP Working Group, which includes staff, volunteers, Board members and First Nations advisors, and to Reconciliation Australia for their guidance and partnership in shaping this next phase.
We look forward to sharing updates with you about our ongoing reconciliation journey.