SCHOOL leaders, and other groups gathered with Glenelg Shire Councillors and staff on Wednesday, to mark National Reconciliation Week, and to hear from Gunditjmara Elders and local Indigenous organisations about what the week means, and what needs to be done to achieve reconciliation.

The week is bookended by the anniversary of two significant steps forward for Indigenous Australians’ rights – the successful 1967 referendum which changed the constitution to allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to be counted as part of the population, and the 1992 Mabo High Court decision that set legal precedent for Native Title recognition and overturned the concept of ‘terra nullius’.