Precious Cargo Blackwood

Precious Cargo is committed to building strong community partnerships with the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community based on mutual trust and respect. We respect and value the insights that we gain from First Nations People as we establish relationships between Precious Cargo and the children, families, employees and communities with whom we work. We recognise the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognise their diverse cultures and perspectives. Precious Cargo commits to reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and all other peoples of Australia and supports strengthening equality and equity in education and employment. 

Precious Cargo's philosophy will offer an inclusive environment that promotes a sense of belonging to each child, their family members, our staff and the members of the wider community. This is demonstrated throughout our Reconciliation Action Plan. We believe that the future wellbeing of all Australians depends on respectful and positive relationships and a co-existence of rights between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. To achieve this, we must engage with current issues and aspirations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, issues of social justice and equity, and work towards fostering equality and equity. 

We recognise and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, cultures, languages, customs, stories and connections to place and Country. We respect this diversity, and that is reflected throughout our Reconciliation Action Plan and celebrated with our reciprocal relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within the greater community. We want to enrich the education of everyone we work with through promoting fairness and equity, so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ histories, perspectives and cultures underlie all that we do. 

Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.