Our department has launched its First Nations Strategy 2025-2030. The Strategy represents our department's deep commitment to:
- incorporating the expertise, experiences and aspirations of First Nations people into the delivery of our policy, program and regulatory work
- creating a culturally supportive environment for First Nations employees
- aligning our work with the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
The Strategy aims to transform how we deliver on government priorities across climate change, energy, the environment, heritage and water. This transformation means putting Country at the heart of our operations and rethinking how we engage, collaborate and function.
The Strategy builds on our department's Statement of Commitment to First Nations people and highlights the actions we will take as an organisation to progress reconciliation within our workplace by 2030.
Implementation will occur over two stages: a Foundations stage (2025-2026) focused on creating a foundation of capability for the way we work with and for First Nations people, and an Embedding stage (2026-2030) that will see us leveraging our foundational capabilities to achieve our Strategy outcomes.
The Strategy was developed through extensive consultation with staff across Australia, including dedicated workshops with First Nations staff and advice from our department's Indigenous Advisory Committee.
