Recognising, celebrating and acknowledging the diverse Aboriginal cultures and history of our State to achieve lasting benefits for Aboriginal people and the broader community.
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The department works in partnership with Aboriginal communities and other stakeholders to connect people to Aboriginal culture and history and promotes reconciliation in the wider WA community through a shared and deeper understanding of our past.
The department has the honoured responsibility for delivering an Aboriginal Cultural Centre for Western Australia. The centre will be a powerful symbol of truth-telling and reconciliation as it will aim to recognise, celebrate and acknowledge the diverse Aboriginal cultures and history of our State.
The department leads many truth telling Aboriginal history projects and works in partnership with Aboriginal communities and stakeholders to connect people to their Aboriginal ancestry.
The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) launched its first ever Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) this week in a special event at its Leederville office.
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We've released a searchable database of the men, women and children admitted to Carrolup Settlement between 1915 and 1922, and those who passed away and were buried at Carrolup or the nearby Katanning Cemetery up until 1949.
Organisations and local governments across metropolitan Perth and regional WA have once again joined together in a stunning display of unity through the annual Reconciliation Week Street Banners Project.
Team members from Aboriginal History Western Australia (AHWA) and the State Library of Western Australia's Storylines program hit the road in March to hold free family history sessions in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt.
Team members from Aboriginal History Western Australia (AHWA) and the State Library of Western Australia's Storylines will be hitting the road this March to jointly hold free family history sessions in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt.
Aboriginal people who want to learn more about their family history now have a dedicated client space within the State Library to request ancestry information and research services.
More than $1 million in additional funding over 4 years has been approved for the successful Wirnan Cultural Engagement and Learning Project involving 6 art centres in the Kimberley.
Meeting September 2023
A new database is now available, revealing town blocks purchased, leased and licensed by Aboriginal people throughout Western Australia between 1900 and 1960.
Meeting August 2023
Experienced Aboriginal community members announced to join project’s Steering Committee.
Hundreds turn out to Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Summit, held at the Perth Convention Centre in Boorloo (Perth).
Meeting March 2023
20 projects throughout the Kimberley, Pilbara, Mid West, Goldfields-Esperance and metropolitan regions will share in $469,384 through the Connecting to Country program.
Bookings to sponsor a Reconciliation Week street banner have now been extended to Friday 10 March 2023.
A significant piece of work that has been undertaken this year is the engagement outreach with Aboriginal people and communities across Western Australia.
The culture shared at this important ceremony shows why it is so vital that we have a place where we can celebrate and learn more about the diversity of Aboriginal culture and heritage.
On 15 August, the Premier the Hon Mark McGowan together with the Whadjuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre Cultural Authority representatives, announced the Terrace Road carpark as the location for the Aboriginal Cultural Centre for Western Australia.
In 2023, the Aboriginal Cultural Centre (ACC) project will expand its membership of the Steering Committee to include suitably experienced Aboriginal leaders from regional Western Australia.
An initiative that will play a vital role in enabling Indigenous language continuation in the Kimberley region will receive a $200,000 support package from the State Government.