Reconciliation Action Plan

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Reconciliation Action Plan 7 Opposite, from top: A QAGOMA Learning Art as Exchange program, led by Bidjara/Ghungalu/ Garingbal artist D Harding (right), Wallaroo Station near Carnarvon Gorge Members of the Namatjira family viewing Arrernte artist Clara Inkamala 's (Emu and chicks) 2002 (Purchased 2003 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM through the QAG Foundation / © Clara Inkamala), in the Collection-based display ‘Namatjira Story’, QAG / Photographs: Chloë Callistemon ABBREVIATIONS AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AMaGA Australian Museums and Galleries Association GLAM Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums GVSOs Gallery Visitor Services Officers IAP Indigenous Advisory Panel ICIP Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property NAIDOC Originally the acronym for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week, and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself. NAIDOC Week celebrates the histories, cultures and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NRW National Reconciliation Week RAP Reconciliation Action Plan RAP champions Internal and external stakeholders working with QAGOMA to prepare and implement this RAP RWG Reconciliation Working Group GLOSSARY Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples The preferred term for Australians of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent who identify and are accepted as such by the community in which they live. QAGOMA acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples refers to two distinct groups in Australia. Expressions such as 'Indigenous Australian', 'Indigenous peoples', 'Aboriginal peoples' and 'First Australian' are other non-specific plural terms used interchangeably in this document. (Please note the capitalisation of ‘Indigenous’ to distinguish Australian from international contexts.) First Nations peoples, First Peoples, indigenous peoples Used by QAGOMA to refer to indigenous peoples of all nations, adding ‘Australia’s’ or ‘Australian’ where relevant. It is important to respond to feedback from people about how they prefer to be identified. In consultation with QAGOMA’s Indigenous Advisory Panel, in this document, we define the following terms: