Progress during 2025/26

4 November 2026

Continuing our reconciliation journey: progress in 2025/26

Brighter Super’s second year of implementing its Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) has focused on listening to First Nations communities and acting on what we hear.

As a fund that supports Queensland’s 17 First Nations councils, we know that meaningful progress depends on strong relationships and a better understanding of members’ needs. Our work with councils and the First Nations Foundation has continued to guide how we provide services and financial education.

In July 2025, we attended the LGMA Indigenous Leaders Forum in Cairns alongside the First Nations Foundation. Council CEOs gave us valuable feedback on servicing and education, which we shared with our Executive Leadership Team and RAP Working Group. Their insights have helped shape our approach. We returned to the LGMA indigenous leaders forums in November 2025 and May 2026 to update CEOs on the actions taken in response and continue the conversation.

Our team also joined the First Nations Foundation’s Financial Wellness Outreach program from August 2025, including a visit to Palm Island. In May 2026, we visited Cherbourg to provide education sessions and one-on-one appointments for council staff. Meeting members in their communities gives us the opportunity to hear their questions firsthand and provide support that is relevant to them.

This work has continued beyond the 2025/26 financial year. In July and August 2026, we ran online information sessions for regional and remote councils, encouraging staff from every Indigenous council to take part. In October, we ran sessions across the Torres Strait Island Regional Council’s 15 divisional offices on beneficiary nominations, Member Online and the support available to members. We also held an on-site session for council staff in Woorabinda and a visit to the Torres Strait Island Regional Council’s Cairns office in October.

We’re committed to supporting greater economic participation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and creating opportunities for Indigenous businesses through our procurement practices. Our engagement with Supply Nation is helping us strengthen our approach to supplier diversity.

As we continue to build out our services and engagement with our 17 indigenous councils, we see 2027 as a really important year to build on achievements to date. We will engage with stakeholders to ensure we are present in community more often, and also to work collaboratively on engagement options that mean we can provide support when it matters.

Our current Innovate RAP concludes in November 2026. We plan to develop our next RAP during the first half of 2027 and announce it later that year. While there will be a period between our formal plans, our commitment to reconciliation and our work with First Nations members and communities will continue.

Taking this time will allow us to work closely with our partners, including the First Nations Foundation and Reconciliation Australia, to reflect on what we have learned and shape our next commitments. We want our next RAP to respond to community needs and focus our efforts where we can make a meaningful difference.

We know that meaningful progress requires ongoing action. We will keep listening to councils and members, strengthening our services and building our capability throughout this next stage of our reconciliation journey.

To learn more, download Brighter Super’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

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