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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

How the APS is involved

  • Bringing together the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) and other peak psychology organisations to take a firm stance against racism in any form, with the Black Lives Matter: Psychologists take a stand against racism position statement. In this position statement, psychologists are standing together to call out and combat racism in the profession, the discipline and communities across Australia.
  • Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Psychology Interest Group.
  • Developing and implementing the APS Reconciliation Action Plan.
  • Making a formal apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, acknowledging psychology’s role in contributing to the erosion of their culture and mistreatment.3
  • Publishing special issues of Australian Psychologist on Indigenous psychology.
  • Helping to develop the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP)
  • Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychology students through the Bendi Lango bursary.
  • Co-facilitating the National Roundtable on Racism towards Indigenous Australians (2009) from which The Boatshed Racism Roundtable Declaration was signed.
  • Working in partnership with Stolen Generations Victoria on the Partnerships in Healing project. A project involving a two-way exchange between the non-Indigenous counsellors and Bringing Them Home support workers to develop culturally responsive counselling services to members of the Stolen Generations.
  • Becoming a key development partner of KidsMatter, which has developed a large catalogue of resources to support the social and emotional wellbeing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
  • Working to address and prevent racism.
  • Supporting psychologists to promote equity and the protection of people’s human rights.

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