Reconciliation Place

Reconciliation Place was designed by architect Simon Kringas. Sharon Payne was Indigenous Cultural Advisor. The design is dominated by a convex mound in the landscape centred on Walter Burley Griffin's land and water axes. Reconciliation Place's mound now blocks the view down the land axis.

Linking the Australian High Court and the National Library of Australia is a public promenade with artworks called "Slivers" displaying images and text on various themes of reconciliation including:

• A welcome to Ngunnawal country - an acknowledgment of the traditional owners of the land on which Reconciliation Place is being built
• The 1967 referendum that amended the Australian constitution to allow the Commonwealth Government to legislate on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues
• The recognition of native title rights which found that native title to land was part of Australia's common law
• The contribution Indigenous people have made, and continue to make, to Australia in sport and in the defence of our nation
• Indigenous leadership, depicting two great leaders — Neville Bonner and Vincent Lingiari and
• The past practice of separating Indigenous children from their families.

Reconciliation Place is intended evolve over time with the addition of new artworks.

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