Reconciliation Action Plan - Netball SA

Netball SAReconciliation

Action PlanSeptember 2017 — 2019

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RAP artwork

The artwork contains a number of circles which radiate out from the bottom. The circles represent a netball and the growing sizes of the circles symbolise the change in players as they grow and develop. In terms of Reconciliation the growth is the same, as people learn more and embrace learning around Aboriginal culture their understanding grows.

The circles also reflect on the fact that Reconciliation is not a process that has an end point. It is something that continues and is never ending.

Each of the colours used in this piece symbolise different feelings:• Yellow reflects warmth and represents communication, enlightenment and sunlight.• Green reflects seeking knowledge and understanding.• Blue reflects being unique, authentic and compassionate.• Red reflects love and courage.

All these colour elements are essential in the Reconciliation process.

Growth Journey – Next StepsScott Rathman

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Contents2 RAP artwork

4 Our RAP Advisory Group

5 CEO messages

7 Our vision for reconciliation

8 Our business

9 Our Reconciliation Action Plan

10 Relationships

12 Respect

14 Photo gallery

16 Opportunities

18 Tracking progress and reporting

19 Get in touch

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Our RAP Advisory Group

Vanessa Dempsey NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

Debra Walker NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

Sophie Murray NSA RAP Advisory

Group Chair

Nick Dury NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

Kylee Goldsmith NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

Tracey Cox NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

Christine Glenn NSA RAP Advisory

Group Member

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CEO messages

On behalf of Netball SA (NSA), I am proud to present our inaugural 2017-2019 Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

Our RAP will play an important role in the organisation achieving our strategic intention of expanding and diversifying our community engagement with current and new participation groups.

As the largest female participation sport in Australia and with a netball community in excess of 100,000 in South Australia, netball has a significant role to play in Australia’s reconciliation journey. As guardians of the sport, our RAP will ensure NSA continues to enrich the community through netball.

Our first RAP focuses on increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in NSA affiliated clubs and associations with a vision to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches and umpires progressing through our high performance pathways in years to come.

NSA recognises that each individual action in our RAP commits our organisation to improving relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous netball communities so we can work together to ensure all South Australians have an equal opportunity to participate in our game.

Thank you to each member of the RAP Advisory Group for their contribution towards developing our inaugural RAP. Thank you also to Reconciliation Australia for their support throughout the RAP development process.

NSA is excited to see where this RAP will take us and the opportunities that will follow over the next two years.

Reconciliation Australia congratulates Netball SA on developing its first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).

By adopting an Innovate RAP, Netball SA demonstrates its readiness to develop and test innovative approaches to reconciliation, and champion reconciliation at every level of the organisation. Netball SA’s commitments in this RAP see it well placed to achieve progress across the key pillars of reconciliation—relationships, respect and opportunities.

Netball SA understands the importance of building and maintaining meaningful, respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and organisations in order to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. It displays this commitment through its actionable goal to promote and celebrate community events such as National Reconciliation Week (NRW) by hosting at least one internal event per year.

Respect and understanding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures is key to Netball SA’s core values. It champions these values by committing to embed cultural awareness into existing practices across the organisation, and the broader netball community, by utilising Netball Australia’s Cultural Respect, Education and Training Empowerment (CREATE) program.

Netball SA is committed to driving reconciliation through developing employment and training opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It demonstrates this through its goal to identify employment, training and ‘on the job’ work experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in netball.

On behalf of Reconciliation Australia, I commend Netball SA on its inaugural RAP, and look forward to following its continued reconciliation journey.

Ben Scales Chief Executive Officer

Netball SA

Karen Mundine Chief Executive Officer

Reconciliation Australia

Ben Scales Chief Executive Officer Netball SA

Karen Mundine Chief Executive Officer Reconciliation Australia

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Photo: Curtain raiser match for 2017 NSA and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match

between South Australia Aboriginal Sports Training Academy (SAASTA) Elite Netball

Program (SENP) and SA Nunga Netball.

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Netball SA (NSA) recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and custodians of the lands, and acknowledge the continuing relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with traditional lands and waters. NSA respects the continuing cultures, languages and heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and places importance on showing this respect.

Our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) commits our organisation to the actions required to increase our efforts and capability to support and engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches, umpires, volunteers, their families and communities to participate at the same level as other South Australians.

Our RAP recognises the role that the netball community of 100,000 South Australians can play in our national reconciliation journey. This role requires us to better support, engage and partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This also requires the ongoing education and engagement of the netball community, to create inclusive netball environments for all participants, at all levels of our game, from grassroots to high performance pathways.

Our vision for the Innovate RAP focuses on increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in NSA affiliated clubs and associations with a vision to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players progressing through the high performance pathway in future years.

Our vision for reconciliation

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NSA is a member organisation of Netball Australia and is the state sporting organisation for the game of netball in South Australia.

NSA comprises 41 associations, including eight regional academies and one metropolitan academy, 340 affiliated clubs and over 32,000 members.

As guardians of the sport in South Australia, we strive to enrich the community through netball. NSA’s 2020 Strategic Plan outlines that by 2020 we will:

1. Double our membership to 60,0002. Expand and diversify our community engagement with current and new participation groups3. Increase our revenue to $10 million4. Exceed all high performance benchmarks in everything we do

NSA employs over 30 people across five departments, led by our Chief Executive Officer. NSA is based at Priceline Stadium in Mile End South, South Australia.

NSA is aware there are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander casual employees, coaches, umpires and volunteers working within netball in South Australia. However, our Innovate RAP will aim to provide better support to these casual employees, coaches, umpires and volunteers as NSA strives to be an employer of choice for all people. Our RAP will also aim to improve how we collect data with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff in future.

Priceline Pharmacy is NSA’s premier partner, with Burbank, Mazda and HomeStart Finance major partners. NSA also has support from a range of corporate and media partners which can be found on our website: www.netballsa.asn.au.

For seven years, NSA has worked with the South Australian Aboriginal Sports Training Academy (SAASTA) to support the SAASTA Shield and more recently, deliver the SAASTA Aboriginal Netball Academy (SANA). The SANA provides young female netballers with an opportunity to gain South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) credits as well as develop their netball skills.

NSA also works closely with SA Nunga Netball, a community netball club with a vision to create and develop sustainable pathways within the South Australian netball community to increase participation of Aboriginal people in netball. SA Nunga Netball hosts an annual junior netball carnival which is held at Priceline Stadium each year.

Our business

Photo (above): SAASTA Aboriginal Academy student,

Denika Braun.Photographer: Mark Piovesan

Photo (left): Kaleteeya Netball Club players at 2017 NSA’s

and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match.

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NSA acknowledges and celebrates the ongoing contribution of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander netball community.

NSA has built positive relationships with key stakeholders over the past couple of years, but there is now an opportunity to increase our efforts to support and engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches, umpires, volunteers, their families and communities. After the successful implementation of Netball Australia’s Reconciliation Plan (RAP) in 2015, we have decided to develop our own RAP.

NSA’s first RAP will utilise the ‘Innovate’ framework provided by Reconciliation Australia. This framework will enable NSA to build our engagement with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations in South Australia by outlining actions, responsibilities, timelines and targets across four key areas: Relationships, Respect, Opportunities and Tracking Progress. The RAP details what NSA will implement, monitor and report to contribute to our organisation’s strategic intentions. These actions will be embedded across the organisation ensuring sustainability and accountability of all aspects of the RAP. The RAP will also be lodged with Reconciliation Australia and will be subject to reporting as required.

To draft the RAP, NSA appointed an Advisory Group consisting of seven members with the majority being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander members, or representatives of organisations working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The Advisory Group has determined the content of this RAP with guidance from the wider community through a community survey. NSA will continue to engage the Advisory Group as a consultative and informative forum around issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. New members are invited to join annually as required to ensure the Advisory Group has new ideas as well as continuity. The Terms of Reference for the Advisory Group are available on the NSA website.

One example of a positive connection formed between NSA and the inaugural Advisory Group is an Advisory Group member providing cultural awareness training for all NSA staff. NSA looks forward to continuing to work with the Advisory Group into the future and the opportunities this will provide to expand and diversify our community engagement with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in South Australia.

NSA has also established an internal Staff RAP Network made up of seven members, consisting of staff members from each business unit, the CEO and a Board member. The Staff RAP Network will champion the cause of the RAP across departments and will embed the actions of the RAP across the organisation.

Our Reconciliation Action Plan

Photo (left): Yellaka performer at 2017

NSA’s and Adelaide Thunderbirds’

Indigenous match.

Photo (right): Chelsea Pitman wearing 2017 Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous dress. Dress designer: Shayla Miller-Pickett

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We will develop respectful, sustainable relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We will learn through communicating and sharing experiences so Netball SA becomes a welcoming place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Action Deliverable Timeline Responsibility

1. RAP Advisory Group actively guides and monitors RAP development, implementation and tracking of progress and reporting.

• Advisory Group to oversee the development, endorsement and launch of the RAP.• Ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are represented on the Advisory Group.• Advisory Group meetings to be held every two months beginning November 2016. • Establish a Terms of Reference for the Advisory Group. • Advisory Group to provide continual advice and guidance to NSA. • Invite new members to join annually, as required, to ensure the Advisory Group has new ideas as well as

continuity.

November 2017 and November 2018

• Inclusion and Diversity Coordinator

2. Establish an internal Staff RAP Network to embed the RAP across the organisation.

• Engage senior leaders in the delivery of RAP outcomes. Each leader and business unit will be responsible for a key action in the RAP.

• Meet at least twice per year to monitor and report on RAP implementation. September 2017


• CEO

Relationships

Focus areaExpand and diversify our community engagement with current and new participation groups. Double our membership to 60,000.

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3. Celebrate and participate in National Reconciliation Week (NRW) by providing opportunities to build and maintain relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians.

• Organise at least one internal event for NRW each year. • Register all NRW events via the Reconciliation Australia NRW website.• Support an external NRW event.• Ensure our RAP Working Group participates in an external event to recognise and celebrate NRW.• Encourage staff to participate in external events to recognise and celebrate NRW.

27 May – 3 June 2018 and 2019


• Events Manager• CEO

4. Develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to support positive outcomes.

• Develop and implement an engagement plan to work with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders. Meet with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and work with the Advisory Group to develop guiding principles for future engagement.

• Create a contact database of key Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders including organisation, team, club and individual contacts.

• Explore new partnership opportunities relevant to our sphere of influence.

August 2019

• GM - Sport Development

• GM - Commercial• Inclusion

and Diversity Coordinator

5. Raise internal and external awareness of our RAP to promote reconciliation across our business and sector.

• Develop and implement a strategy to communicate our RAP to all internal and external stakeholders.• Promote reconciliation through ongoing active engagement with all stakeholders. • Establish relationships with Aboriginal media outlets.• Develop communication guiding principles and distribute to staff to ensure communication is

culturally appropriate. • Recognise the importance of building relationships with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

community by improving our presence and visibility through face-to-face contact.• Report RAP action items at staff meetings and in Board reports to show how we are tracking.• Employee induction pack will include a summary of NSA’s RAP.• Encourage and support local clubs and associations to connect with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Community. • Embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community engagement into the Adelaide Thunderbirds

community hours and player appearances.

September 2017 and August 2019

• GM – Brand, Marketing and Communications

• Senior PR and Media Advisor


• CEO• Adelaide

Thunderbirds and High Performance Programs Manager

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6. Engage employees in continuous cultural learning opportunities to increase understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and achievements.

• Develop and implement an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness training strategy for our staff which defines cultural learning needs of employees in all areas of our business and considers various ways cultural learning can be provided (online, face-to-face, workshops or cultural immersion).

• Investigate opportunities to work with local Traditional Owners and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consultants to deliver tailored cultural awareness training.

• Provide opportunities for Advisory Group members, RAP champions and key leadership staff to participate in cultural training.

• Provide Aboriginal and Torres Islander cultural awareness training opportunities to all NSA staff. • Provide an opportunity for the Adelaide Thunderbirds playing group to participate in a cultural learning

activity (online, face-to-face, cultural immersion). • Utilise the Netball Australia Cultural Respect, Education and Training Empowerment Program (CREATE)

as a tool to embed cultural awareness into existing systems and structures across NSA and the broader netball community.

• Investigate local cultural experiences and immersion opportunities for staff and players.

December 2018

• CEO• Inclusion


• GM – High Performance

We will increase cultural awareness and understanding to demonstrate our respect of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s heritage, tradition and culture. We will establish ways to celebrate the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have made to netball in South Australia.

Respect

Focus areaExpand and diversify our community engagement with current and new participation groups.

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7. Engage employees in understanding the significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural protocols such as Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country to ensure there is a shared meaning.

• Develop, implement and communicate a cultural protocol document for Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country.

• Develop a list of key contacts for organising a Welcome to Country and maintain respectful partnerships.• Invite a Traditional Owner to provide a Welcome to Country at significant events, including Adelaide

Thunderbirds Indigenous Match. • Include an Acknowledgement of Country at the commencement of all important internal and external

meetings. • Encourage staff to include an Acknowledgement of Country at the commencement of all meetings.• Organise and display an Acknowledgment of Country plaque in our office or on our office building.• Play Welcome to Country video at significant events, carnivals and competitions.

May 2018


• Events Manager

8. Provide opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to engage with their culture and communities by celebrating NAIDOC week.

• Review HR policies and procedures to ensure there are no barriers to staff participating in NAIDOC Week.

• Staff members are to arrange participation in NAIDOC Week events with their line manager. • Provide opportunities for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to participate with their cultures

and communities during NAIDOC Week. • Consult with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to hold an internal or external NAIDOC Week

event (State Premier Netball Competition Indigenous Round).

July 2018 and July 2019

• Executive Support Officer

• High Performance Coordinator

9. Acknowledge significant contributors to the engagement and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander netball participants and communities, to reward and recognise examples of best practice actions and behaviours.

• Recognise the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have made to netball in South Australia by establishing an acknowledgement award to be presented at an NSA event annually.

• Honour the contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made to netball in South Australia by collecting and collating photos, videos and stories of past and present players and officials.

August 2019

• Events Manager• Inclusion


10. Celebrate and recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dates of significance.

• Produce a ‘dates of significance’ document to distribute to all staff.

February 2018


• Communications Coordinator

11. Display Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags alongside the Australian flag and South Australian flag at Priceline Stadium.

• Provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag flying protocol and directions to NSA stadium and event staff.

February 2018

• GM – Corporate Services

• Events Manager

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(1) One Netball Clinic with Kaleteeya Netball Club. (2) 2017 NSA’s and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match curtain raiser match. (3) 2016 NSA’s and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match dress (dress designer: Jumeka Saunders). (4) Yellaka performers at 2017 NSA’s and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match. (5) Australia Post One Netball Ambassador and 2017 Adelaide Thunderbirds player, Ama Agbeze, visit to APY Lands.

Photo gallery

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(6) SAASTA Aboriginal Netball Academy player, Kiara Agius (photographer: Mark Piovesan). (7) 2017 NSA’s and Adelaide Thunderbirds’ Indigenous match. (8) Narungga vs. Black Panthers at the 2017 Nine News Netball Cup NAIDOC week match. (9) 2016 Australia Post One Netball Community Award winner, Christine Glenn, from Kaleteeya Netball Club. (10) 2015 Indigenous match commemorative ball (artist: Shane Cook).

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12. Increase employment and volunteering opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in netball across all areas, from grassroots to executive level.

• Work with the Advisory Group to develop and implement an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and retention strategy.

• Engage with the Advisory Group members to consult on employment strategies, including professional development for future employment.

• Advertise vacancies through targeted social media and share through networks (e.g. share with Advisory Group to pass onto their networks).

• Review HR and recruitment procedures and policies to ensure there are no barriers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander future employees and applicants participating in our workplace.

• Identify employment, training and ‘on the job’ work experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in netball in South Australia.

• Explore volunteering opportunities and traineeship opportunities at NSA events.

August 2019

• CEO• Executive Support

Officer• GM – Brand,

Marketing and Communications


• Events Manager

13. Review current suppliers and procurement to provide opportunities for Aboriginal business and social enterprises.

• Investigate opportunities to develop commercial relationships with at least one Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander owned business.

• Investigate Supply Nation membership. August 2019


• GM – Commercial• Stadium Manager

We will increase opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to participate and engage with our game. Through education and support we will build a welcoming culture and inspire the netball community to play a role in the journey towards reconciliation.

Opportunities

Focus areaDouble our membership to 60,000. Exceed all high performance bench marks in everything we do.

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14. Provide better support and opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander coaches, umpires and administrators.

• Deliver face-to-face information workshops covering coaching, umpiring and administration courses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

• Consult local communities to determine when and where the workshops should be held and to assist with promotion and facilitation of the workshop. December 2018

• State Coach Program Manager

• Officiating Development Manager

• Community and Member Services Manager

15. Identify role modelling opportunities for current and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches and umpires to inspire the next generation.

• Invite former and current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches and umpires to become RAP champions.

• Utilise One Netball Ambassadors to nominate and profile Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander role models.

August 2019


16. Identify opportunities to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and women in Netball Australia’s Player Pathway.

• Develop an engagement strategy to provide actions to increase participation from NetSetGO all the way to Masters with a focus on both regional and metropolitan players.

• Assist players in the pathway to identify and pursue funding opportunities to assist with their financial requirements.

March 2019

• GM – Sport Development

17. Improve data capture through all Netball SA databases.

• Work with the Advisory Group to develop guidelines about the best way to capture data. • Distribute guidelines to staff and associations to highlight the importance of capturing this data. • Create a historic database of past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players and officials.

February 2018

• Membership Database Coordinator

18. Undertake a financial review of Netball SA related registrations and fees to determine the affordability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, coaches and umpires.

• Review NSA’s membership fee structure. • Explore other funding subsidy opportunities for players, coaches, umpires and officials. • Assist players to identify potential funding opportunities. April 2018



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19. Report RAP achievements, challenges and learnings to Reconciliation Australia.

• Complete and submit the RAP Impact Measurement Questionnaire to Reconciliation Australia annually.• Investigate participating in the RAP Barometer.

September 2018

May 2019

September 2019


20. Report RAP achievements, challenges and learnings internally and externally.

• Publicly report our RAP achievements, challenges and learnings through NSA digital media channels and Annual Report.

• Provide updates to internal staff at staff meetings and in Board reports. August 2018 and 2019

• Communications Coordinator

• CEO

21. Ensure each Netball SA business unit reports on progress of key actions.

• Add “RAP reporting” to the leadership team agenda to facilitate reporting on progress of key actions across the business.

• General Manager of each business unit to provide updates at monthly leadership meetings.

Monthly starting September 2017 –

August 2019.


• GM – Commercial• GM – Brand,

Marketing and Communications

• GM – High Performance

• GM – Sport Development

• CEO

22. Review, refresh and update RAP.

• Review RAP progress from September 2018.• Progress report submitted to Board. • Liaise with Reconciliation Australia to develop a new RAP based on learnings, challenges and

achievements. • Send draft RAP to Reconciliation Australia for review and feedback.• Submit draft RAP to Reconciliation Australia for formal endorsement. • Deliver updated RAP September 2019.

March 2019


Tracking progress and reporting

For more information about the Netball SA RAP please get in touch with us:

Phone: +61 8 8238 0500Email: [email protected] Address: Netball SA, Priceline Stadium, 155 Railway Terrace, Mile End South, SA 5031

Get in touch

/netballsouthaustralia @netballsa netballsa.asn.au

Artist: Scott Rathman

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Documents

Reconciliation Action Plan - Netball SA