Priorities for 2025

Our priorities for 2025 are:

• To listen to First Nations perspectives on implementing Treaty and Truth at state and national levels and facilitate events that continue to assist to educate ABL partners, staff and friends of the firm on these elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
• To review the frequency and format of the AISN Book Club with a view to increasing attendance and engagement.
• To continue to update and promote the First Nations Procurement List and Procurement Questionnaire to increase the percentage of spending by the firm with First Nations businesses.
• To make at least one large-scale (one off or ongoing) spend with a First Nations business or host a large event with a First Nation supplier or suppliers.
• To implement a process whereby every three months, the AISN connects via email to new starters for the preceding three-month period.
• For the AISN Recruitment Working Group, in collaboration with ABL Human Resources, to continue the firm’s efforts to:
  • Identify channels for the firm to source First Nations candidates, and to maintain focus on:
    • both recruitment and retention of First Nations employees; and
    • including measures to ensure a culturally safe workplace for First Nations employees, with a particular focus on ABL’s clerkship program.
  • Build relationships with organisations and contacts that will facilitate recruitment of First Nations employees, including through universities and referral networks.
• To install plaques next to artwork created by First Nations artists in Arnold Bloch Leibler offices providing information about the artists and the meaning of the artwork.
• To continue to provide opportunities for AISN members and other staff and partners to engage with Indigenous culture and art, history and contemporary experiences, including by organising external excursions to events showcasing First Nations artists.