Supagas has launched its first Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan, marking an important step in the company’s commitment to listening, learning and building stronger relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Supagas has launched its first Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), setting out a formal commitment to begin a deeper reconciliation journey across the business.
Endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, a Reflect RAP is the first stage in the RAP framework. It focuses on building awareness, strengthening cultural understanding, developing respectful relationships and laying the internal foundations for meaningful future action.
For Supagas, the launch is an important milestone in recognising the role the business can play in supporting reconciliation across its workplaces, operations and community relationships.
As a business operating across Australia, Supagas acknowledges that its work takes place on the lands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Reflect RAP provides a practical framework to help the business understand its sphere of influence and how reconciliation can be embedded into its culture and ways of working within and with the community.
Supagas Managing Director Erol Arican said the launch of the Reflect RAP was an important first step for the business.
“Reconciliation starts with understanding,” Arican said. “Our Reflect RAP gives us the structure to listen, learn and reflect on what reconciliation means for our employees.
“This is not about treating reconciliation as a single initiative or a document that sits on a shelf. It is about building awareness, strengthening relationships and creating the foundations for meaningful action over time.”
The Reflect RAP outlines commitments across relationships, respect and opportunities, supported by governance to guide implementation across the business.
These commitments include building cultural awareness among employees, strengthening understanding of First Nations histories and cultures, exploring respectful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and identifying future opportunities in areas such as employment, procurement and community partnership.
Over the coming months, Supagas will share resources, stories and internal engagement activities to help employees understand the purpose of the RAP and the role they can play in bringing it to life.
Arican said the Reflect RAP would help Supagas take a considered and respectful approach to reconciliation.
“Supagas has always been a people-focused business, with teams working in communities across the country,” Arican said. “That gives us a responsibility to approach reconciliation with respect, openness and a willingness to learn.
“Our first RAP gives us the opportunity to build cultural awareness across our business, strengthen our connections with communities and take practical steps toward a more inclusive and respectful future.”
The launch of the Reflect RAP also builds on Supagas’s broader commitment to responsible business leadership, community engagement and workplace inclusion.
That commitment is reflected in Supagas’s ‘Yes We Can’ ethos, which speaks to the company’s practical, people-focused approach to supporting customers, employees and communities. It is also reflected in the ‘Together We Can’ Community Engagement Program, which provides a clearer framework for how Supagas supports community organisations and local initiatives in ways that align with its values, footprint and ability to make a practical difference.
As Supagas begins this next stage of its reconciliation journey, the business will continue to focus on learning before action, understanding before implementation, and ensuring future initiatives are shaped by respectful engagement and local context.
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