Orienteering Tasmania is seeking a Tasmanian representative for the Orienteering Australia Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) working group. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. promptly if you are interested. Here is the description from Orienteering Australia:

OA is excited to start the process of developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). We would like a representative from each state/territory to be part of the working group. 

This is a great opportunity for the orienteering community in Australia to take meaningful action to advance reconciliation. We have taken the first step of engaging with The Nahri Institute to work alongside us. Now we are forming a working group with a wide range of members.

This is the first time we are creating a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), therefore the first RAP will be a ‘Reflect’ one. Committing to a Reflect RAP allows us to spend time scoping and developing relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders, deciding on our vision for reconciliation and exploring our sphere of influence, before committing to specific actions or initiatives. A major focus of this phase is exploring and documenting what we are currently doing (some great things are already happening!), share these initiatives and dream how we can take the next step. The following RAP’s are ‘Innovate, ‘Stretch’ and ‘Elevate’.

There are three core pillars within the RAP: Relationships, Respect, Opportunities. They will be used as a framework to turn good intentions into actions. We are planning to break the working group into three teams, so each can focus on one pillar. There will be at least one board member, two staff members and at least two state/territory reps per team.

There may be people in your state/territory that have already taken great steps in working with the local indigenous group or implemented actions to help reconciliation. Or maybe someone has worked on RAP’s outside of orienteering. Or it would be great to involve those in our orienteering sphere who identify as indigenous.

The commitment would be about 1 hour per week of reading or writing and an online meeting every few weeks for the rest of the year.