National Reconciliation Week

National Reconciliation Week

Each year it is held between 27 May and 3 June each year, between the anniversary of two significant milestones in Australian history.

• On 27 May 1967, a referendum was held which saw more than 90 per cent of Australians vote to give the Federal Government power to conduct programs for Indigenous people, and for them to be counted in the census.
• On 3 June 1992, the Mabo decision in the High Court overthrew the legal fiction of terra nullius, meaning land belonging to no one, on which British claims to possession of Australia were based.

The 2019 NRW theme is: Grounded in Truth - Walk Together with Courage.

St Albans Secondary College acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and recognise their lands have always been places of education.