Our Connection to Country
Our Action Plan
Our aspiration is that in implementing Australia’s High Performance 2032+ Sport Strategy, the Australian HP Sport System will come to be characterised by environments and people that are connected to and deliberately include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their cultures, histories, and communities. Our people will have learnt from storytelling, be culturally aware, behave with integrity, and be accountable to enhance their Connection to Country.
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We commit to working together, walking together, aspiring together, achieving together.
Our Connection to Country
As we begin this journey of opportunity and progress for Australian High Performance Sport, we commit to enhancing meaningful connection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, histories, communities, and culture.
There is great strength for all Australians with a sporting culture that understands our collective histories and seeks to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, their living cultures and celebrates their achievements.
Our aspiration is that in implementing Australia’s High Performance 2032+ Sport Strategy, the Australian HP Sport System will come to be characterised by environments and people that are connected to and deliberately include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their cultures, histories, and communities.
Our people will have learnt from storytelling, be culturally aware, behave with integrity, and be accountable to enhance their Connection to Country.
Our mission
A culturally-safe, culturally-connected, and culturally inclusive HP Sport environment characterised by:
ACKNOWLEDGE and build meaningful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as custodians of the lands, waters, and seas where the people in that organisation live, train, and compete.
HONOUR the contribution to the organisation and all stages of the journey of its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes, coaches, performance support staff, officials, and administrators, past and present. They will also honour the land where the people in that organisation live, train, and compete.
EDUCATE everyone and build a commitment to better understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to adapt the organisation’s practices and protocols and people’s behaviour to ensure and embed cultural safety for all.
CREATE opportunities and relationships that actively support and promote in culturally appropriate ways the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples at the highest levels of Australian sport as athletes, coaches, performance support staff, officials, administrators, and as senior leaders and decision-makers.
LEAD reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within that sporting organisation and serve as an example to the wider nation of the opportunities that reconciliation offers.