Reconciliation

Believe Housing Australia, the housing arm of AnglicareSA, has been committed to genuine reconciliation since 2021, driving lasting change through meaningful actions. In collaboration with First Nations leaders, we are enhancing cultural competency and inclusivity across our services.

Our reconciliation journey and actions

Since 2021, we have taken an in-depth look at our reconciliation journey and how we, as an organisation, can move towards real change with lasting purpose.

With support from Reconciliation SA, we have undertaken a significant engagement process to ensure our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) includes meaningful actions that promote inclusivity and enhance cultural competency within Believe Housing Australia and the broader community.

 

Our Innovate RAP is a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through tangible, measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with.
– Grant Reubenicht, CEO

 

We involved Believe Housing and AnglicareSA employees, First Nations community leaders, and customers to inform our RAP Working Group and ensure ownership and participation in the creation of the approach and commitment to reconciliation.

We develop our Acknowledgement of Country in collaboration with First Nations senior leaders and employees. Providing a greater understanding of culture and the continuing connection of First Nations peoples to Country.

Tirkandi, country, culture and connection.

Acknowledgement of Country

You can’t do it (acknowledge Country) without connecting, and that means walking Country with the people, listening to the story of land. If you don’t hear that first-hand, how do you know what you’re acknowledging?

– Burka, Senior man Karl Winda Telfer
Our story artwork by Karen Briggs

Our Reconciliation Action Plan

We walk softly alongside First Nations people as allies committed to seeking guidance, listening with purpose, and acting with courage in our future together.

Always was, always will be.

First Nations dates of significance 2026

  • 26 January – Survival Day, Day of Mourning, Invasion Day
  • 13 February – Anniversary of the National Apology to Stolen Generations
  • 21 March – International Day for the Elimination of Racial discrimination (IDERD)
  • 19 March – National Close the Gap Day
  • 5 April – Anniversary of the Bringing Them Home Report
  • 26 May – National Sorry Day
  • 27 May – 3 June ‐ National Reconciliation Week
  • 27 May – Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution
  • 3 June – Mabo Day
  • 5-12 July – National NAIDOC Week
  • 4 August – National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day
  • 9 August – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
  • 2 September – Indigenous Literacy Day
  • 13 September – Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous people
AnglicareSA

Formerly known as AnglicareSA Housing, Believe Housing Australia continues to be a part of the AnglicareSA family and remains a subsidiary company of AnglicareSA.

Get in Touch

Visit one of our four locations in metropolitan or regional South Australia, give us a call or contact us online.

We express our gratitude to the Traditional Owners and Custodians for their continuous care of this ancient Country for thousands of generations and for the sharing of this land that was never ceded.

We recognise and respect the wisdom of Elders past, present, and those to come, and extend this to all First Nations Peoples and their living cultures.

We walk softly alongside First Nations Peoples as allies committed to seeking guidance, listening with purpose, and acting with courage in our future together.

Always was, always will be.

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We are moving:

We are relocating to a new home at 159 Port Road, Hindmarsh, co-located with AnglicareSA. Click here for key dates and information.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors to Believe Housing Australia’s website are advised that this website may contain images, names, and voices of people who have died.