We would like to express our sincere thanks to the many individuals and organisations who contributed to the NAIDOC Week 2020 online trail.

1 Warralily Boulevard (corner Barwon Heads Road) in Armstrong Creek.

149–177 High Street and 51–59 Reserve Road in Drysdale.

65 Hyland Street, Fyansford

111–117 Unity Drive in Mount Duneed.

We have developed the Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan in consultation with a Working Group comprising Traditional Owners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members, representatives from Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation and Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative.

Artist, Billy-Jay O'Toole, painted Wadawurrung Country and Connection in 2019.

We have five governance actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan.

We are very proud to bring you the City’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. 

There are three opportunities actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan.

The role of The City of Greater Geelong is constituted under the Local Government Act (Vic) 1989 to provide leadership for the good governance of the municipal district and the local community. 

There is a great deal of confusion about the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee and often the terms are used interchangeably or incorrectly.

Regardless of where you are from, what you look like, what you believe or what language you speak, no one should have to endure racism in the place they call home.

Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Alphonse Mulashe and his family left their home due to the war. 

Helen arrived in Australia two months ago after fleeing the war in Ukraine. She lives in Jan Juc, and she’s being supported by the Ukrainian Community in Geelong and Cultura.

Keak Joak’s parents fled the war in South Sudan in the 1990s and resettled in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where Keak was born. 

Khin Khin Sumon and her family resettled in Australia in 2012, following years of living in a refugee camp in Thailand. Khin Khin is a member of the Karen community in Geelong.