[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" parallax_speed="0.3" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" border_style="solid"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" center_content="no" last="no" min_height="" hover_type="none" link=""][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] Reconciliation in its truest form is about bringing healing to the nation and healing to First Nations peoples, so that we may all move forward together, says Yalari founder Waverley Stanley AM. Yalari is educating and empowering Indigenous children Waverley Stanley and his wife, Yalari managing director Llew Mullins, presented to Reconciliation Queensland members and guests on 25 May 2019 at Garden City Public Library, Upper Mount Gravatt. Yalari promotes itself as a not-for-profit organisation offering quality, secondary education scholarships at leading Australian boarding schools for Indigenous children from regional, rural and remote communities. "I honestly believe that for us as an organisation and for us as a nation, why we [need to] focus on generational change is because, if 231 years since 1788 since Australia was settled, if we as a nation, if we can have so much technology going on, if we can have so much expertise in that area, but the pure, unsanctified responsibility of a person talking face-to-face [and] asking someone about their life [is not happening]," Waverley said. "In this digital age we have right now, we are so far backwards that we can't even sit down and do that. And we are coming to the same trough, the same table, about reconciliation. The same basic human rights of how do we treat people. "We have to raise up people in this country [and] our next generation are the people who are going to make a huge difference," he said. [/fusion_text][fusion_youtube id="Ir-rQBtjzQM" alignment="" width="560" height="315" autoplay="false" api_params="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" css_id="" /][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] This was another RQI Speaker Series event. View the video for the entire Yalari presentation or check out the photos below. [/fusion_text][fusion_images picture_size="fixed" hover_type="none" autoplay="no" columns="5" column_spacing="13" scroll_items="" show_nav="yes" mouse_scroll="no" border="yes" lightbox="yes" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id=""][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-1.jpg" image_id="8572|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-1.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-5.jpg" image_id="8573|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-5.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-10.jpg" image_id="8574|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-10.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-11.jpg" image_id="8575|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-11.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-20.jpg" image_id="8576|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-20.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-21.jpg" image_id="8577|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-21.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-22.jpg" image_id="8578|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-22.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-23.jpg" image_id="8579|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-23.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-26.jpg" image_id="8580|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-26.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-27.jpg" image_id="8581|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-27.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][fusion_image image="https://www.rqi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM_Upper-Mt-Gravatt_Thumb_190525-31.jpg" image_id="8582|full" link="/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Waverley-Stanley-AM-RQI-Speaker-Series_190525-31.jpg" linktarget="_self" alt="" /][/fusion_images][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] Staffing and student support Explaining the the organisation's structure, Llew Mullins said Yalari had between 30 and 35 staff. "Half of them [Yalari staff] are in the office on the Gold Coast...because that's where we live. Really we're a national company," Llew explained. "The other half of our staff live in the cities where the children go to school and they are our support officers, so they're on the ground," she said. "They don't work for the school. They're not in the school, but they support them...and without these roles, our program wouldn't work. They really do need that extra support. "It's a liaison between the school, the parents, [who] are sometimes two and a half hours away, sometimes they're 4,000 kilometres away, and the students themselves." "And [we are] helping that all to work...helping to facilitate that relationship," Llew said. [/fusion_text][fusion_text columns="" column_min_width="" column_spacing="" rule_style="default" rule_size="" rule_color="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""] Llew explained that Yalari staff included social workers and former teachers. "And they all work together as a team, because you can communicate so well over long distances now," she said. "And the other ones that support each other are the students themselves. From the oldest ones to the youngest ones, that's the natural progression we have," Llew added. Now in its 14th year of operation, Yalari has 194 indigenous children on scholarships in 26 partner schools across Australia. It also has an alumni group of 346 who are studying at university, working, undertaking further training or raising families. RQI has undertaken to hold its 'Speaker Series' events every two months. Anyone who has a n interest in reconciliation is welcome to attend, not just RQI members. Check our Event Calendar for more details. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

South East Queensland Archives - Reconciliation Queensland

Jeremy Donovan takes us walking with wisdom

An original poetry reading and rousing performances on the didgeridoo and Native American flute delighted Reconciliation Queensland members and guests when

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Defying boundaries of Brisbane’s colonial past

Song, performance and craft stalls capped off this year's Defying Boundaries reconciliation walk on August 10th at West End's Bunyapa Park.

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Mt Nebo community honours first peoples

A long journey came to fruition when a First Peoples Recognition Site was opened recently at Mt Nebo. Research started in

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Logan walks in harmony for reconciliation

People of many cultural backgrounds have walked in harmony through Logan in a show of support for reconciliation with Australia's First

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The Yalari Story

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Simon Brooks2019-10-19T22:34:18+10:00June 30th, 2019|Events, South East Queensland|0 Comments

Murri Court founder Diane Fingleton

Long an advocate for social justice, Diane Fingleton introduced the Murri Court. She is a retired Queensland Magistrates Court judge and the

Simon Brooks2019-04-29T20:12:30+10:00April 28th, 2019|Meetings, South East Queensland|0 Comments

Australia Day 2019 evokes reflection on reconciliation

Ancient lore merged into modern law when Kabi Kabi Elder Uncle Eugene Bargo and young lawyer turned comedian Leon Filewood took

Simon Brooks2019-03-01T20:16:13+10:00March 1st, 2019|Events, South East Queensland|0 Comments

Getting festive with yourtown

Registered charity for young people yourtown threw open its doors in December for a Christmas gathering of RAP organisations, local reconciliation

Simon Brooks2019-02-22T13:48:03+10:00February 16th, 2019|Events, South East Queensland|2 Comments

Brisbane hosts Australian Reconciliation Network

Delegates from State and Territory reconciliation councils across the country converged on Queensland's parliament house in Brisbane over two days in

Simon Brooks2019-02-16T09:32:01+10:00February 10th, 2019|Meetings, South East Queensland|0 Comments

Dr Ray Kerkhove draws crowd for important history lesson

It was a full house at Mitchelton Library on November 3rd for a talk by Dr Ray Kerkhove on the boundaries and

Simon Brooks2018-11-28T22:44:27+10:00November 28th, 2018|Events, Meetings, South East Queensland|2 Comments