{"id":20254,"date":"2025-11-24T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/?p=20254"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:11:47","slug":"arthritis-australia-launches-its-first-reconciliation-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/arthritis-australia-launches-its-first-reconciliation-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthritis Australia launches its first Reconciliation Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Arthritis Australia has proudly launched its first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), marking a significant milestone in the organisation\u2019s commitment to building stronger relationships and advancing reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This Reflect RAP, endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, sets out clear actions for the next year to embed respect, increase our cultural\u00a0responsiveness, and identify meaningful opportunities for Arthritis Australia to embed culturally appropriate initiatives in our core business.<\/strong><\/p>

Arthritis Australia Interim CEO, Louise Hardy, highlighted that the RAP reflects a united commitment to listen, learn, and act:\u202f \u201cThis plan is about walking together – demonstrating our respect for the knowledge, resilience, and leadership of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and recognising that our organisation has the opportunity and obligation to do more to advance reconciliation,\u201d she said.<\/p>

Key RAP initiatives focus on forging partnerships with Aboriginal health organisations, <\/span>developing a cultural learning strategy for our staff and committees<\/span>, and <\/span>exploring\u00a0<\/span> how<\/span> Arthritis Australia can support and foster Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led research<\/span>. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The RAP was officially launched on 20 November with an event at Arthritis Australia\u2019s office in Glebe, including the unveiling of Breaking Barriers, an artwork by Wanita Lowe, commissioned by Arthritis Australia.<\/strong> Breaking Barriers visually represents the pain and healing journey of arthritis – woven circles and red trails signify suffering; outer layers break away to reveal gatherings and native plants that symbolise tradition and renewal.\u00a0<\/p>

Arthritis Australia would like to acknowledge and thank the members of our RAP Working Group. \u00a0\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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MEDIA RELEASE Arthritis Australia has proudly launched its first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), marking a significant milestone in the organisation\u2019s commitment to building stronger relationships and advancing reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This Reflect RAP, endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, sets out clear actions for the next year to embed respect, increase our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20271,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}