Australian Rural Leadership Foundation

Registrations now open for Changemaker Online, 4–5 August 2026

If you’re navigating complexity, leading change, or feeling the pressure to make the right call in uncertain conditions, this experience is for you.

Across two powerful sessions, you’ll build the clarity, confidence, and capability to lead in ways that bring others with you.

Join us on 4–5 August and start leading with greater impact.

Book your place now 🔗 https://hubs.la/Q04k0Xc10

National Reconciliation Week wraps up today. But the work does not.

Thank you to everyone who engaged, listened, and shared this week. At ARLF, we are committed to walking alongside First Nations communities every day of the year, through our programs, our practice, and our people.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, meet, and learn.

As part of our National Reconciliation Week reading series, we are continuing to share perspectives that challenge us to think more deeply about what reconciliation means in practice. This series is not about offering simple answers. It is about creating space for reflection, listening, and engaging with voices that may question, unsettle or expand our understanding.

Todays article 👉 This National Reconciliation Week, how do we reconcile the irreconcilable?

In this candid and confronting piece, Kate Russell explores the deep fatigue felt across First Nations communities following the Voice referendum, asking an uncomfortable but necessary question: is reconciliation still the best path forward?

Rather than offering easy answers, this article invites readers to sit with complexity, uncertainty and the emotional weight of recent national conversations, and to consider what meaningful reconciliation demands moving forward.

Author: Kate Russell (2024)
Read more: https://hubs.la/Q04hXgHy0...

This National Reconciliation Week, how do we reconcile the irreconcilable? - Diversity Council Australia Kate Russell, CEO of Supply Nation and Board Director at DCA, explains why this National Reconciliation Week may be a difficult time for mob.

As we mark National Reconciliation Week, this year’s national theme, All In, reminds us that reconciliation is not a spectator sport, nor is it the sole responsibility of First Nations people to champion.

To prompt meaningful discussion and challenge our assumptions, we will be sharing three insightful perspectives of reconciliation in Australia through the week. Rather than presenting a unified, comfortable narrative, this reading list is intended to spark thought and encourage readers to seek out further reading on these topics.

We encourage you to engage with these pieces not as passive readers, but as active participants willing to reflect on what genuine accountability looks like in our daily practices.

Todays article 👉 All In: 25 Years and Counting

A look back at the defining grassroots moments when Australians have truly stood All In for reconciliation. This piece serves as a necessary reminder that momentum isn't built in corporate boardrooms, but through consistent, collective action.

Reconciliation Australia

All In: 25 Years and Counting We look back at moments where Australians have been 'All In' on our collective reconciliation journey and look forward to the action still required.

Session 2 of the Australian Agribusiness Leadership Program (AALP) 2026 has wrapped, and what a session it was.

It all started at Queens Park in Toowoomba on 2 May, and from that first day together, this cohort brought something special. Watching a group of people arrive as strangers and leave as a genuine network is one of those things that never gets old.

Congratulations to everyone who took part. The best is still ahead. 🙌