Reconciliation is everyone’s business
Filed under: community, Indigenous, reconciliation
I believe reconciliation is everyone’s business. At Telstra we have a longstanding commitment to Indigenous Australians, formalised last year with the launch of our inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan. Today I’m pleased to build on this inaugural plan with an updated Reconciliation Action Plan outlining our actions for the next three years.
This plan details our commitment to:
- Providing affordable, innovative and accessible products and services to improve the lives of our Indigenous customers;
- Using our information and communication technologies to invest support and create opportunities for Indigenous communities; and
- Improving Telstra’s attraction, recruitment, engagement and retention of Indigenous Employees.
Personally I’m proud of our ongoing commitment, and the recognition from Reconciliation Australia of the impact of Telstra’s investments and initiatives towards reconciliation. It’s an exciting journey and one that I’m proud to be a part of.
Another part of our journey is supporting “You Me Unity”. This is the national conversation about updating our constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture for the benefit of all Australians. It’s one that all Australians can join, simply by visiting www.youmeunity.org.au to have their say.
By making reconciliation everyone’s business, together I believe we can achieve real change.
More information:
- Reconciliation Action Plan 2011-14
- Diversity and inclusion at Telstra
- A commitment to Indigenous Australians is an integral part of good corporate citizenship at Telstra. Read more about corporate citizenship at Telstra.
- Find out more about Telstra’s commitment to local communities.
This is just more pc bullshit. The bottom line is that Telstra treats people badly – customers, business associates and non profits.
You have a reconciliation process of your own to do – you have a generation of hate to overcome from more than a decade of bad behaviour.
Bet you don’t even publish this – ignoring people’s criticism is part of the problem.
There is no easy answer to the divide. Having travelled around Oz and seeing often the sorry state of indigineous people – education for their next generation is key. That’s not easy for remote locations – so telecs have a role to play.
Well done for publishing mr angry’s post. In one regard he’s right as any answer will require a generation or two’s timeframe to solve. So I hope Telstra’s resolve stay ther for the journey.