IKON Services recognises that an inclusive and culturally safe environment is essential for long term business success. To become a culturally safe and diverse organisation we need to invest our time and attention into our current and future employees by helping us all to build our own cultural understanding and capabilities.

IKON Services is fully engaged and committed to our journey towards a more diverse workforce, better race relations and ultimately a reconciled Australia. We are extremely confident that this Reflect RAP will enhance the cultural capabilities of our people and provide sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The latter will be achieved through an employee mentoring and post-placement support program which includes Health and Well-being screening and pathways to complete employment. We have also redeveloped our employment induction process to help us with identifying our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce.

In 2019, IKON Services engaged 200 Game Carlton Football Club life member and proud Yorta Yorta man Andrew Walker to develop the organisations first Reconciliation Action Plan. Andrew joined the IKON team as Head of Indigenous Programs and Employment and has been the key driving force behind IKON Services’ Reflect RAP development.

Andrew’s engagement reinforces IKON Services’ senior management team’s commitment to the development and implementation of the company’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. With this commitment came an overwhelming amount of support from IKON Services team members, leading to the development of our first-ever RAP working group. This group includes two of IKON Services’ Aboriginal employees and an Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Pam Pederson, who have helped shape the direction of our RAP. During our first RAP working group meetings, it became very clear we were already on our reconciliation journey and had already developed major partnerships. These partnerships are documented as part of our RAP under ‘Our Partnerships and Current Activities’.

Members of the RAP working group will lead the implementation of our RAP, with the support of Managing Director George Tahan, and will be given all the necessary resources to ensure IKON Services’ RAP journey is a successful one.

IKON Services recognises that an inclusive and culturally safe environment is essential for long term business success. To become a culturally safe and diverse organisation we need to invest our time and attention into our current and future employees by helping us all to build our own cultural understanding and capabilities.

IKON Services is fully engaged and committed to our journey towards a more diverse workforce, better race relations and ultimately a reconciled Australia. We are extremely confident that this Reflect RAP will enhance the cultural capabilities of our people and provide sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The latter will be achieved through an employee mentoring and post-placement support program which includes Health and Well-being screening and pathways to complete employment. We have also redeveloped our employment induction process to help us with identifying our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce.

In 2019, IKON Services engaged 200 Game Carlton Football Club life member and proud Yorta Yorta man Andrew Walker to develop the organisations first Reconciliation Action Plan. Andrew joined the IKON team as Head of Indigenous Programs and Employment and has been the key driving force behind IKON Services’ Reflect RAP development.

Andrew’s engagement reinforces IKON Services’ senior management team’s commitment to the development and implementation of the company’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. With this commitment came an overwhelming amount of support from IKON Services team members, leading to the development of our first-ever RAP working group. This group includes two of IKON Services’ Aboriginal employees and an Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Pam Pederson, who have helped shape the direction of our RAP. During our first RAP working group meetings, it became very clear we were already on our reconciliation journey and had already developed major partnerships. These partnerships are documented as part of our RAP under ‘Our Partnerships and Current Activities’.

Members of the RAP working group will lead the implementation of our RAP, with the support of Managing Director George Tahan, and will be given all the necessary resources to ensure IKON Services’ RAP journey is a successful one.

FLIPBOOK

Our Reconciliation Action Plan

IKON Services Australia (IKON) commenced drafting our REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in 2019 and formally published it in March 2020.

Like many other businesses and communities, the COVID-19 global pandemic had a very significant impact on our organisation, its employees and our day-to-day operations.

Some of those impacts include the ability to progress and deliver our REFLECT RAP as expected. Despite these challenges, IKON made considerable progress and formally closed our REFLECT RAP in December 2023.

Key REFLECT RAP achievements:

IKON Services Australia (IKON) commenced drafting our REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in 2019 and formally published it in March 2020.

Like many other businesses and communities, the COVID-19 global pandemic had a very significant impact on our organisation, its employees and our day-to-day operations.

Some of those impacts include the ability to progress and deliver our REFLECT RAP as expected. Despite these challenges, IKON made considerable progress and formally closed our REFLECT RAP in December 2023.

Key REFLECT RAP achievements:

RAP ARTWORK BY UNCLE KEVIN WILLIAMS

YANGARRA GIRRANG

In all three of the designs I have included the IKON logo which is symbolic of the meeting place of the Waradjuri our Bora Grounds. The Bora grounds from a traditional perspective is where the Waradjuri would come to meet for ceremonies.

When doing design work I like to be able to include aspect in the design of my artwork and my Heritage as Waradjuri. This can be with the marking and patterns and the more symbolic and from a cultural perspective our Bora Grounds which IKON logo lends itself to perfectly .

The concept for this IKON design came to me first with the symbolic nature of the cleaning and sweeping of the ground with the leaves. This I remembered as a young kids when family would take us home to the Sand Hills Mission in Narrandera. We would visit family in their tin and timber house on the mission with the hession on the walls. To clean the grounds floors my Aunties would sweep the floor with the gum leaves then throw the leaves on to the fire and it is this smell I still remember to this day.

With the leaves I have used them to represent the six locations of IKON and what I have included are the patterns and marking on the leaves of each area. The large central leaf is of IKON in Melbourne the Country of the Wurundjuri of the Kulin Nation the patterns and marking are that of the Waradjuri and is representative of the art of Victoria and NSW. The Orange Leaf is of Sydney with its bright colours and the marking and patterns of the Eora and Gadigal people. The blue leaf is of Brisbane and the colours of the sea and the patterns and markings are of the Turrabal/Jagera people. The green leaf is of SA and Adelaide and the colour of the Flinders Ranges and the Nuunngar people and the dots patterns of their artwork. The brown leaf is of Perth and WA and the Noongar people and their artwork. The yellow leaf is of Geelong and the colours of the Wattle Trees from the country side and art.

The central focus of the artwork is the logo of IKON which is symbolic of the Waradjuri Bora Ground. This is where the support and recognition for both of our cultural values are intrinsically woven into the IKON Bora Ground.

RAP ARTWORK BY UNCLE KEVIN WILLIAMS

YANGARRA GIRRANG

In all three of the designs I have included the IKON logo which is symbolic of the meeting place of the Waradjuri our Bora Grounds. The Bora grounds from a traditional perspective is where the Waradjuri would come to meet for ceremonies.

When doing design work I like to be able to include aspect in the design of my artwork and my Heritage as Waradjuri. This can be with the marking and patterns and the more symbolic and from a cultural perspective our Bora Grounds which IKON logo lends itself to perfectly .

The concept for this IKON design came to me first with the symbolic nature of the cleaning and sweeping of the ground with the leaves. This I remembered as a young kids when family would take us home to the Sand Hills Mission in Narrandera. We would visit family in their tin and timber house on the mission with the hession on the walls. To clean the grounds floors my Aunties would sweep the floor with the gum leaves then throw the leaves on to the fire and it is this smell I still remember to this day.

With the leaves I have used them to represent the six locations of IKON and what I have included are the patterns and marking on the leaves of each area. The large central leaf is of IKON in Melbourne the Country of the Wurundjuri of the Kulin Nation the patterns and marking are that of the Waradjuri and is representative of the art of Victoria and NSW. The Orange Leaf is of Sydney with its bright colours and the marking and patterns of the Eora and Gadigal people. The blue leaf is of Brisbane and the colours of the sea and the patterns and markings are of the Turrabal/Jagera people. The green leaf is of SA and Adelaide and the colour of the Flinders Ranges and the Nuunngar people and the dots patterns of their artwork. The brown leaf is of Perth and WA and the Noongar people and their artwork. The yellow leaf is of Geelong and the colours of the Wattle Trees from the country side and art.

The central focus of the artwork is the logo of IKON which is symbolic of the Waradjuri Bora Ground. This is where the support and recognition for both of our cultural values are intrinsically woven into the IKON Bora Ground.

IKON Services Australia acknowledges the First Nations People and Traditional Owners of the land where we live, gather and work. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all other First Nations People and their cultures.

FLIPBOOK

Our Reconciliation Action Plan

RAP ARTWORK BY UNCLE KEVIN WILLIAMS

RAP ARTWORK BY UNCLE KEVIN WILLIAMS

IKON Services Australia acknowledges the First Nations People and Traditional Owners of the land where we live, gather and work. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all other First Nations People and their cultures.

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