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Reconciliation

Students develop an understanding of issues involved in Reconciliation.

Two different stimuli are suggested for teachers to use with students to consider Reconciliation.

• Download and read "What do you mean Reconciliation?"
  
• Read the Racism. No way! Fact sheet Reconciliation and if possible visit the relevant websites listed below
  
• Discuss what Reconciliation means to you.
  
• Individually or in pairs write definitions /interpretations of Reconciliation.
  
• Collate and display the texts.
  

To many Aboriginal people an event witnessed in the natural world can be read as a vision or spirit. In this extract from Patrick Dodson's Wentworth Lecture 2000 he sees the woman's recount of the pelican and the seagull as a positive omen for Reconciliation

• In groups students download and read the extract from Patrick Dodson's Wentworth Lecture 2000 and discuss the significance of the pelican seagull analogy.
  
• Discuss the significance of the old Irish saying Bigots and begrudgers will never bid the past farewell in the Australian context.
  
• Individually, in pairs or in small groups students compose poems or prose to reflect the vision of Reconciliation
  

• Reconciliation, A Streetwize Comic Production 1997
  
• Racism. No way! Fact sheet Reconciliation
• ABC Radio Programs-On Tape
  1. Late Night Live RIP-Reconciliation in Paralysis? 16/7/01
  2. AWAYE! 13 July 2001

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Factsheets
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
• Corroboree 2000: Towards Reconciliation
• HREOC
• Yarra Healing