First Nations engagement

Brookfield Properties has demonstrated a broad-reaching and innovative approach to engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across its national assets in Australia, delivering tangible and meaningful results.

Brookfield Properties’ Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) represents an opportunity for our business to implement change and create actions for achieving our vision for reconciliation – both in the cities where we operate and more broadly across Australia.

Our vision for reconciliation is to celebrate and welcome First Nations peoples, cultures, histories, languages, and art in the properties and precincts we operate and develop. Our mission is to create environments and experiences where all cultures feel welcome. Through procurement, engagement, inclusion, education, acknowledgement, and celebration we aim to build a more determined, purposeful framework and accountability to build relationships and collaborate with First Nations communities.

Our continued evolution has resulted in our Australian operation include Designing for Country as a key consideration in our developments. Our procurement model has been adapted to proactively include First Nations businesses, with significant advancements made to Brookfield Properties’ placemaking programs.

Brookfield Properties has delivered culturally-informed placemaking and events, alongside a range of working relationships with First Nations stakeholders and economic support for First Nations enterprises and organisations.

As a RAP deliverable and an example of its innovative placemaking capacity, Brookfield Properties has delivered a series programs for National Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week including a rotating exhibition by First Nations artists across the Australian portfolio with a series of ‘Lunch and Learn’ cultural education seminars for tenants, painting and weaving workshops, and pop-up markets.

These programs have actively built cultural understanding between the wider public and the First Nations community, while celebrating First Nations stories, traditions, and ways of life.

Our approach to community engagement has delivered tangible economic opportunities for First Nations registered enterprises, delivered support to both established and emerging First Nations artists, and provided funds for First Nations-owned and not-for-profit community organisations. We look forward to continue our reconciliation journey.