RENews
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK - 27 MAY TO 3 JUNE
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey— the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.
27 May 1967 On this day, Australia’s most successful referendum saw more than 90 per cent of Australians vote to give the Australian Government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognise them in the Census.
3 June 1992 On this day, the Australian High Court delivered the Mabo decision, the culmination of Eddie Koiki Mabo’s challenge to the legal fiction of ‘terra nullius’ (land belonging to no one) and leading to the legal recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of lands. This decision paved the way for Native Title.
Reconciliation must live in the hearts, minds and actions of all Australians as we move forward, creating a nation strengthened by respectful relationships between the wider Australian community, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians – as individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation.
We all have a role to play when it comes to reconciliation, and in playing our part we collectively build relationships and communities that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, cultures, and futures.
2021 marks twenty years of Reconciliation Australia and almost three decades of Australia’s formal reconciliation process.
MORE THAN A WORD. RECONCILIATION TAKES ACTION
Enhancing Catholic School Identity Survey (ECSI)
Parent Survey
We urge all families to participate in the ECSI Survey which will assist us in better understanding how our Catholic identity is expressed in work and practice here at St Raphael’s Preston West.
Steps to completing the ECSI Survey
Log into https://ecsi.site/au/user/
Put in password- Ghj654 (case sensitive)
On the page User Access level- click New User
Your Survey Access Code:g2At1q (case sensitive)
You will be issued with a User-ID and Password. Please save these details.
You will begin pre-survey questions (this will determine what survey will be issued to you (teacher/student/parent)
You will now come to the page- Welcome to the main questionnaire page. Click on the link to access the survey.