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Reconciliation

Birali Steiner school have embarked on the journey to Reconciliation. To help support us, we joined the Narragunnawali program from Reconciliation Australia and formed a Reconciliation Action Plan Team of staff and volunteers dedicated to the Reconciliation work at Birali.  

Narragunnawali (pronounced narra-gunna-wally) is a word from the language of the Ngunnawal people, Traditional Owners of the land on which Reconciliation Australia’s Canberra office is located, meaning alive, wellbeing, coming together and peace.

Our own name, “Birali” (pronounced Ber-ra-lee) was given to the school by an indigenous elder, inspired by the Creative Spirit Biral.  

A few years on, Birali is proud to have good working relationships with local indigenous elders, particularly through the support of the Pumicestone Indigenous Education and Employment Council. We also have embedded practices of Acknowledgement of Country at our daily staff briefings, as well as community events and performances. 

As a school and a community, we continue to strive to find ways of promoting the importance of Indigenous culture, past, present and future and ultimately ‘closing the gap’.

For the next stages of our Reconciliation journey, Birali has included goals as part of our 2025 – 2028 Strategic Plan to continue to build on the practices formed to date.

Birali Acknowledgement of Country 

In keeping with the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the Traditional owners of the lands where Birali Steiner School now stands, and we recognise that these lands have always been places of teaching and learning. 

We wish to pay respect to Elders – past, present and emerging – and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within the Birali Steiner School Community.