National Reconciliation Week.

National Reconciliation Week starts today. And this year, the message is simple:

All In.

Not some of us. Not when it's convenient. Not just during the one week a year when it appears on the calendar and organisations put up a poster in the lunchroom.

All of us. Every day. All in.

National Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May to 3 June every year — and those two dates aren't chosen randomly. They mark two of the most significant moments in this country's history.

On 27 May 1967, after ten years of campaigning, Australians voted in a referendum to recognise First Nations peoples in the Australian Constitution. It was a landmark moment — a public acknowledgement that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had been treated as second-class citizens in their own Country. The vote passed with over 90 percent support. One of the highest yes votes in Australian referendum history.

And on 3 June 1992, the High Court handed down the Mabo decision — overturning the fiction of terra nullius and legally recognising that First Nations people had been here, with law and connection to Country, long before colonisation arrived and tried to erase all of that.

Two dates. Decades apart. Both hard won. Both still unfinished.

This year, Reconciliation Australia also marks its 25th anniversary — a moment to reflect on how far the journey has come, and how far it still has to go.

The 2026 theme, All In, is grounded not in guilt or shame, but in the reciprocal responsibility of being Australian. That's an important distinction. This isn't about burden. It's about belonging — to each other, to this Country, to a shared future that works for everyone.

Reconciliation is not a spectator sport. It asks all of us to step away from the sidelines and take action. And it is not solely the responsibility of First Nations people, who have carried the weight of championing, explaining and acting for far too long.

Read that again. First Nations people have been doing the heavy lifting of reconciliation — the educating, the explaining, the advocating, the forgiving — for generations. The whole point of All In is that it's time for everyone else to pick up their share of that load.

Here on Groote Eylandt, reconciliation isn't an abstract concept. It's in the relationships between people. The respect shown for Elders and for Country. The conversations that happen honestly. The listening that actually changes things. The acknowledgement that this place has a deep, living history that matters every single day — not just this week.

Reconciliation is shaped through everyday actions. By listening, learning and engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and perspectives, we move forward together.

So this week — and every week after it — what does being All In look like for you?