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Our Partners
We welcome the support of corporate Australia and our government partners on our shared journey towards an equitable and informed Queensland.
Their leadership and commitment provide essential momentum to the reconciliation movement, helping to preserve the cultures, languages and histories of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Through regional networks and Reconciliation Industry Network Groups, our corporate and government partners enhance the capacity of communities and workplaces to promote reconciliation across the five key dimensions.
Our Partnership with the Queensland Government's Department of Seniors, Disability Services, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships serves to promote and build reconciliation in Queensland through practical initiatives that:
Assist to increase respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures
Create and build positive relationships between non-Indigenous Queenslanders, organisations, local and state government bodies, other entities and corporations, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their organisations, communities and governance structures
Foster opportunities that build social change and economic opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
This partnership aims to foster participation in, and celebration of, significant cultural events and local, regional, and state-level reconciliation activities through collaboration with community-based and community-driven initiatives. These initiatives include conversations about reconciliation, racism and discrimination.
Our partnership with BHP supports the delivery of key state-level, iconic reconciliation events and the delivery of online social and multimedia engagement platforms. Priority events include the National Reconciliation Week annual launch and breakfast, and a program of regional reconciliation forums. Specifically our partnership with BHP supports the following objectives:
Enhanced capacity of regional networks to promote reconciliation across the five key dimensions
An improved online delivery platform to increase engagement and access to reconciliation resources, and
Greater community engagement around National Reconciliation Week and events that promote shared histories, cultures and achievements, and historical acceptance.
BHP recognises the traditional rights of Indigenous peoples and acknowledges their right to maintain their cultures, identities, traditions and customs.
Our Patrons
Our patrons are esteemed individuals who embody the values of respect, cultural understanding, and reconciliation. They are leaders and advocates committed to walking alongside First Nations peoples to foster unity, truth-telling, and positive change across communities.
Dr Jackie Huggins AM
Jackie Huggins, has maintained a lifetime commitment to Reconciliation in Queensland and across Australia. Reconciliation Queensland is honoured to have Jackie as a patron and acknowledges her tireless work and advocacy in eradicating injustice and educating non-Indigenous peoples through an action-based reconciliation process. Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, is a member of the Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru peoples. Jackie holds many leadership positions in organisations across the country. She is the Co-Chair of the Treaty Advancement Commission (Qld). She is a Director of the Telstra Foundation; Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland; Member of the Indigenous Advisory Board of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, Central Queensland University; former Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia; former Chair of the Queensland Domestic Violence Council (2001); former Commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (1997); and former member of the ATSIC Review Panel (2003). Jackie authored Auntie Rita (with Rita Huggins 1994) and Sister Girl (1999). In 2000 she received the Premier’s Millennium Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs; in 2001 she was awarded an Australia Medal (AM) for her work with Indigenous people, particularly reconciliation, literacy, women’s issues and social justice; and in 2007 Jackie was named University of Queensland Alumnus of the Year. In 2022, Jackie released a new edition of Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation.
The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO
Quentin Bryce has enjoyed a rich and distinguished career as an academic, lawyer, community and human rights advocate, senior public officer, university college principal and vice-regal representative in Queensland and for Australia. Reconciliation Queensland is honoured to have Quentin as a patron. Quentin Bryce’s contribution to advancing human rights and equality, the rights of women and children, and the welfare of the family was recognised in her appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2003. Also in 2003, she was invested as a Dame of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. On 25 March 2014, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Ms Bryce had become a Dame in the Order of Australia. In her civic role as Governor of Queensland, Ms Bryce continues her work with women, families and young people while extending her influence across the State’s broad and diverse spectrum, including the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, rural, regional, aged, migrant, and disability communities. On 5 September 2008 Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia’s twenty-fifth Governor-General. As the first woman to take up the office, she was a pioneer in contemporary Australian society, and yet one who brought more than forty years of experience in reform, community building and leadership to the role. Her term concluded in March 2014.
