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KU’s ongoing work, and what it meant for beginning to develop our RAP.” Developing KU’s RAP has been a three-year journey involving a working group of KU staff representatives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. That group worked closely with Reconciliation Australia, members of KU’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group, the KU Executive Team and KU Board. We look forward to implementing KU’s Innovate RAP over the next two years and embedding its philosophy in our day to day operations. Each KU centre will use the Narragunnawali Program to develop their own centre RAP; identifying goals and actions specific to each centre’s journey of reconciliation. In celebration, an artwork by Aboriginal artist, Karen Maber, was commissioned by KU. The painting reflects the tree of learning acknowledging that we have so much to learn from our First Nation’s peoples, their history of cultures rich in family and kinship, and their strong sense of belonging to and caring for their country, that goes back thousands of years. STAFF TENURE < 10 years: 75% 10 to 19 years: 18% 20 to 29 years: 6% 30+ years: 1% 2015 88 % 2016 86 % CONSISTENCY FUELS QUALITY STAFF RETENTION RATES 11