Aboriginal Advisory Committee

Cricket ACT is committed to reconciliation and ensuring that as a sporting organisation, we do all we can to learn, create awareness, promote and embed First Nations culture in all we do within our organisation and our cricket community.

We are committed to working with our cricket community, broader community (in particular Traditional Custodians of the local Country), key stakeholders and partners to ensure we assist in closing the gap between First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians.

To assist us in our work we have established an Aboriginal Advisory Committee (AAC). This Committee is an officially sanctioned advisory committee of the CACT Board and has the responsibility and scope to offer advice to management and the CACT Board on matters relating to First Nations engagement within the game of cricket (view the Terms of Reference for the Committee).

The purpose of the CACT AAC is to provide a leadership and advisory platform to facilitate a partnership between Aboriginal people/communities and CACT to enhance the involvement of First Nations peoples at all levels in our much-loved sport of cricket.

Following an expression of interest in late 2023 the following members were appointed to our AAC:

  • Adam Williams
  • Djali Bloomfield
  • Jonathan Hill
  • James Harrison
  • Cindie Deeker.

We thank the committee for its ongoing work with Cricket ACT on our reconciliation journey.

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Platinum Partner

Cricket ACT acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and ancestors of the land we live and meet on, the Ngunnawal people. Cricket ACT acknowledges that other people and families also have a traditional connection to the lands of the ACT and region and we respect this connection to country. We honour and pay respect to the Elders in our local communities, both past and present.

We celebrate the participation of First Nations peoples, families and communities, and recognise their individual and collective shared connection and history with cricket. We are committed to listening and learning about how we as people, an organisation and community advocate for equitable outcomes and positive futures with all First Nations peoples.

First Nations Artwork with thanks to Wiradjuri woman Kalara Gilbert.