National Reconciliation Week 2024
29 April 2024
With just one month to go until NRW24, here's our guide to engaging with this year's theme - Now More That Ever - both professionally and personally.
ANZCA encourages all Australian based fellows, trainees, SIMGs, anaesthesia departments and pain medicine services to recognise and celebrate National Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June) at both work and home. This year’s theme reminds us that, no matter what, the fight for justice and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must continue.
How to get involved
- Visit and use the National Reconciliation Week resources on the Reconciliation Australia website. These resources include social assets, posters and digital assets such as e-signatures and zoom backgrounds.
- Decorate your offices, perioperative clinics, theatre reception or second-stage recovery areas with Reconciliation Australia posters, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags and balloons (especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags colours) to help Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients, families and staff feel welcome and valued.
- Host a National Reconciliation Week activity at your workplace. For example - host a morning/afternoon tea or lunch (consider engaging an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander owned and operated catering business); invite an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander guest speaker or local Elder to talk to staff; host a National Reconciliation Week facts quiz.
- Find out what your hospital’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander liaison services are doing this National Reconciliation Week. Think about how to release staff from their duties to attend and/or volunteer to help with events.
- Participate in an external event to recognise and celebrate National Reconciliation Week
- Get social – promote your National Reconciliation Week activities and tag ANZCA so we can promote further.
- Read ANZCA’s RAP and your hospital’s RAP and consider how you can contribute to delivering any of the reconciliation actions, and how you can stand up to defend and uphold the rights of First Nations peoples.