National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice

The National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice was established in February 2023 by Professor Andrew Gunstone Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Reconciliation at Federation University. It was launched in March 2023 by Professor Gunstone, Senator Pat Dodson and Dr Jackie Huggins AM. The National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice explores national and regional understandings and engagements in reconciliation, truth, and justice, across industry, academic and community settings, through a program of research, education, outreach, advocacy, and engagement. Our team consists of Professor Gunstone; Professorial Research Fellows – Professor Bindi Bennett, Professor Dennis Foley, Professor Emma Lee; Professor Indigenous Truth-telling Research Professor Emma Gavin: Research Associate Jesse Fleay, and Project and Administrative Officer Sara Jubran. Our Advisory Board are national leaders from a diverse range of fields, and provide advice, guidance, expertise, and experience to Professor Gunstone. They are: Dr Jackie Huggins AM, Emma Garlett, Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter, Professor Barry Judd, and Peter Morris. The National Centre is engaged in significant transformational work in a wide range of areas, including: reconciliation, RAPs, cultural responsiveness, well-being and trauma, Indigenous business, Indigenous entrepreneurship, truth-telling, Voice, land and see management, Indigenous knowledges and methodologies, international relations, and constitutional philosophy. One of our key projects is Roads to Reconciliation: Activating Multicultural Communities. Led by National Centre Adjunct Senior Research Fellows, Maria Dimopoulos and Shankar Kasynathan, the project engages with metropolitan and regional multicultural communities on reconciliation, truth, and justice. See: https://www.linkedin.com/company/roads-to-reconciliation/ Our National Centre logo was designed by Professor Dennis Foley and is titled "Gidya" - meaning small, growing tree.