Reconciliation Australia CEO, Karen Mundine, said one of the biggest challenges for Australia and for reconciliation was ensuring that newly arrived migrants had access to information to help understand the truth of Australia’s history and how it informs and exists in the present day.

‘This year’s National Reconciliation Week theme: Bridging Now to Next reflects the ongoing connection between past, present, and future,’ Karen Mundine said.

‘The future of reconciliation must include a greater participation from multilingual Australian communities.

‘The National Reconciliation Week (NRW) 2025 resources and background information are translated into Arabic, Greek, Italian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, Punjabi, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.

‘These languages reflect communities with both a high total number of speakers, and with significant levels of speakers with low English language proficiency. We plan to provide this information in more languages in the coming weeks.

‘We are committed to ensuring that culturally and linguistically diverse communities can understand more about Australia’s reconciliation movement and are able to be better informed of our shared history.’

The latest census found over half of Australian residents (51.5%) were born overseas or have at least one parent born overseas, and more than 5.5 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. These statistics underscore the importance of sharing the reconciliation message in other languages.

Reconciliation Australia will be providing the resources at the National Multicultural Festival in Canberra on Saturday 8 February.