Creating authentic connections to place

NOVEMBER 2025

In FY2025, Cbus Property brought its commitment to reconciliation to life through a series of initiatives that honour Country and Indigenous cultures, embed reconciliation into the fabric of our buildings, and foster meaningful engagement with employees and tenants.

Cbus Property is committed to embedding reconciliation into the fabric of our buildings in ways that honour Country and Indigenous Peoples and cultures, connects our employees and engages tenants in meaningful ways.

In FY2025, we delivered a series of initiatives that brought this commitment to life.

During National Reconciliation Week, we launched a new Cultural Learning Plan that includes an online First Nations training module for all employees. Tenants and team members joined shared experiences across our offices, from yarning circles and sound meditations to book drives.

Timed with NAIDOC Week, members of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group and Melbourne office volunteers participated in Meals for the Mob, a program developed in consultation with First Nations communities to provide targeted food relief through free, nutritious, ready-to-eat meals. During our three-hour shift, we helped create 1,829 meals. In parallel, we unveiled a bold new artwork at each of our offices, developed by proud Gumbaynggirr woman and activist Aretha Brown for our RAP.

To mark construction commencement at 185 Wharf St, Brisbane, we hosted a smoking ceremony, sod turning and Welcome to Country, led by Tribal Experiences. Attended by our project teams and partners, the ceremony acknowledged the Traditional Custodians of Spring Hill and celebrated the start of a residential project that reimagines the Queenslander home.

185 Wharf St, Brisbane – Smoking Ceremony | Photo Credit: Dale Travers

At Nine The Esplanade, Perth, two extraordinary public artworks by Noongar printmaker Brett Nannup bring reconciliation to life. Created in partnership with cultural advisors Barry McGuire and Carol Innes, the artworks honour ancestral knowledge, express cultural identity and reinforce our shared responsibility to care for Country, culture and community.

Nine The Esplanade, Perth – Public Art Reveal | Artist: Brett Nannup

And at 111 Castlereagh, Sydney, we have commissioned ‘The Stones of the Ancestors’ from Dharawal and Yuin Artist, Alison Page, with a series of sculpted forms that tell cultural and ecological stories and acknowledge the deep history of the land we build on.

Through these actions, Cbus Property continues to build authentic, long-term relationships with First Nations peoples through experiences that foster shared understanding, visibility and pride in place.