Inclusion at Bloomberg

Reconciliation at Bloomberg

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As a global firm, we’re acutely aware of our impact in Australia and the importance of engaging in the reconciliation process in a way that delivers real results.

We believe that when more communities have equitable access to opportunities that support their self-determination and economic participation, societies are stronger, and businesses — ours included — are more successful as a result.

That’s why we’re passionate about using our platforms to enhance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inclusion, by ensuring First Nations perspectives are represented, supporting the preservation and celebration of culture, and taking Australia’s underrepresented voices to the world.

Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

Read our plans, including our most recent “Innovate” RAPs, and our “Reflect” RAP, which lays out Bloomberg’s original commitment to reconciliation:
Innovate RAP (2024-2026)
Innovate RAP (2022-2024)
Reflect RAP (2019-2020)
Bloomberg L.P. acknowledges the Traditional Owners as the Custodians of the land which we now call Australia. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their Elders, past, present and future, and recognise the importance of connection to land, waters and resources.

Towards a future where everyone can thrive.

Our vision for reconciliation is rooted in a deep respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land where we operate. We want to help ensure that the stewards of the world’s oldest living culture can continue passing on their legacy. And we want to ensure that it remains a source of knowledge, pride and prosperity for all Australians, now and in generations to come.

Supporting culture

We believe in the power of art to bring people together across cultural boundaries, to share perspectives and build understanding. It’s for this reason that we’re so passionate about supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in telling their stories. Through Corporate Philanthropy-supported First Nations programmes at cultural institutions such as Kaldor Public Art Projects, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Australian Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) and Carriageworks, we’ve been able to contribute to giving these all-important narratives a broader platform — including through a permanent installation in our Sydney office.

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Supporting culture

We believe in the power of art to bring people together across cultural boundaries, to share perspectives and build understanding. It’s for this reason that we’re so passionate about supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in telling their stories. Through Corporate Philanthropy-supported First Nations programmes at cultural institutions such as Kaldor Public Art Projects, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Australian Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) and Carriageworks, we’ve been able to contribute to giving these all-important narratives a broader platform — including through a permanent installation in our Sydney office.

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Making a difference

We’re committed to giving back to the communities in which we live and work, using the time and talents of our employees through our Best of Bloomberg programme, and the resources of our business, to create lasting impact. In the context of reconciliation, this means engaging employees in activities designed to help them understand and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. It means supporting educational and artistic programs. And it means engaging First Nations advisors to ensure we’re partnering with the community to deliver what people really need.

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Making a difference

We’re committed to giving back to the communities in which we live and work, using the time and talents of our employees through our Best of Bloomberg programme, and the resources of our business, to create lasting impact. In the context of reconciliation, this means engaging employees in activities designed to help them understand and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. It means supporting educational and artistic programs. And it means engaging First Nations advisors to ensure we’re partnering with the community to deliver what people really need.

Learn about our Corporate Philanthropy

Empowering potential

Bloomberg has always believed that inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s the best thing for individuals, businesses, and societies. In partnership with organisations like the GO Foundation, we’ve been able to support equal access to education through scholarship programs for First Nations students. Meanwhile, our Bloomberg Launch mentoring initiative has forged deeper connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and Bloomberg employees, fostering a better understanding of student experiences and building skills for their future careers.

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Empowering potential

Bloomberg has always believed that inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s the best thing for individuals, businesses, and societies. In partnership with organisations like the GO Foundation, we’ve been able to support equal access to education through scholarship programs for First Nations students. Meanwhile, our Bloomberg Launch mentoring initiative has forged deeper connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and Bloomberg employees, fostering a better understanding of student experiences and building skills for their future careers.

Explore opportunities to work with us

Amplifying voices

Our editorial division relays Australia’s most important stories to millions of readers and viewers. A crucial priority of our coverage is featuring a diverse range of perspectives — including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. By globally amplifying their stories and the issues around them, we also help bring attention to narratives that contain parallels for other First Nations peoples around the world.

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Amplifying voices

Our editorial division relays Australia’s most important stories to millions of readers and viewers. A crucial priority of our coverage is featuring a diverse range of perspectives — including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. By globally amplifying their stories and the issues around them, we also help bring attention to narratives that contain parallels for other First Nations peoples around the world.

Discover our journalism

Galuma-li by Lucy Simpson

To advance that vision, we recently collaborated with Indigenous artist Lucy Simpson on a site-specific installation for our Sydney office. The specially commissioned artwork showcases her evocative interpretations of narratives that translate inherent respect, understanding, and relationship to and of place — a cornerstone of Australia’s First Nations cultures.

Learn more about the artwork

Lucy Simpson (Yuwaalaraay)
Galuma-li, 2021
Fused, knapped glass
Installation commissioned in partnership with Carriageworks and created in collaboration with Glassworks Canberra. Listen below to the accompanying sound composition created by Nardi Simpson — a Yuwaalaraay storyteller, performer, composer, writer and musical director from NSW’s northwest freshwater plains who is heavily involved in the teaching and sharing of culture in both her Sydney and Yuwaalaraay communities.

About the artwork

Galuma-li evolved from time spent on Yuwaalaraay country in north-western New South Wales and was inspired by Country, tradition and concepts of balance based in stories related to migratory birds.

Here, seeking sustenance, in flight and reflected across waterways, they carry a narrative of generational knowledge, represented by four transparent glass coolamon forms that echo hand-crafted bark containers; old objects of necessity and innovation created to nurture, carry, provide and support.

One object balanced on a plinth centres the installation, connecting the floor (land and water) to hanging forms (sky). The overall installation replicates the floating of a feather to earth from above, imparting a sense of weightlessness.

The intent of the work is to provide an opportunity for the broader community to engage with narratives of responsibility, care, and continuing relationships; to take the audience on a journey of country and time (yilaalu) both back and forward.

Lucy Simpson is a Sydney-based Yuwaalaraay artist, designer, visual communicator and maker who specialises in objects of place, cultural continuities, textiles and conceptual storytelling. She embraces art-making as a process, continually connecting her work back to story and experience. 

About the artwork

Galuma-li evolved from time spent on Yuwaalaraay country in north-western New South Wales and was inspired by Country, tradition and concepts of balance based in stories related to migratory birds.

Here, seeking sustenance, in flight and reflected across waterways, they carry a narrative of generational knowledge, represented by four transparent glass coolamon forms that echo hand-crafted bark containers; old objects of necessity and innovation created to nurture, carry, provide and support.

One object balanced on a plinth centres the installation, connecting the floor (land and water) to hanging forms (sky). The overall installation replicates the floating of a feather to earth from above, imparting a sense of weightlessness.

The intent of the work is to provide an opportunity for the broader community to engage with narratives of responsibility, care, and continuing relationships; to take the audience on a journey of country and time (yilaalu) both back and forward.

Lucy Simpson is a Sydney-based Yuwaalaraay artist, designer, visual communicator and maker who specialises in objects of place, cultural continuities, textiles and conceptual storytelling. She embraces art-making as a process, continually connecting her work back to story and experience. 

Lucy Simpson (Yuwaalaraay)
Galuma-li, 2021
Fused, knapped glass
Installation commissioned in partnership with Carriageworks and created in collaboration with Glassworks Canberra. Listen below to the accompanying sound composition created by Nardi Simpson — a Yuwaalaraay storyteller, performer, composer, writer and musical director from NSW’s northwest freshwater plains who is heavily involved in the teaching and sharing of culture in both her Sydney and Yuwaalaraay communities.

Photo gallery

The Bloomberg team at Garma Festival hosted by the Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land.
Bloomberg’s Sydney office frequently hosts events as part of our commitment to reconciliation.
Employee volunteers gift-wrapped 634 school welcome packs donated to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander school children for 26 January as part of our Best of Bloomberg (BOB) program.
Bloomberg is proud to support the GO Foundation.

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At Bloomberg Australia, we believe that contributing to the reconciliation process is one of our most important responsibilities. These interviews with our employees, Indigenous advisors and philanthropy partners explain why we’re so passionate about reconciliation, what measures we’re taking across our organisation, and how we’re making a measurable impact for Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

Alisha Fernando

Bloomberg’s Head of Diversity & Inclusion, APAC, Alisha Fernando, has always been a staunch proponent of inclusion. Here she explains the importance of diversity and inclusion in the broader context of reconciliation, and why reaching out to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community is so important — for all of us.

Clark Donovan

Indigenous Advisor to Bloomberg, Clark Donovan, has a very personal take on the power of reconciliation to make a real difference. We rely on advisors like Clark to guide our reconciliation efforts, and to ensure that everything we do is geared towards the full recognition and inclusion of Australia’s Indigenous community.

Clark Donovan

Indigenous Advisor to Bloomberg, Clark Donovan, has a very personal take on the power of reconciliation to make a real difference. We rely on advisors like Clark to guide our reconciliation efforts, and to ensure that everything we do is geared towards the full recognition and inclusion of Australia’s Indigenous community.

Brooke Boney

We were honoured to have well-known Australian media personality Brooke Boney as an advisor to our Reconciliation Initiative throughout its first phase. Hear what she has to say about the power — and responsibility — of large companies like Bloomberg to progress reconciliation, both within the organisation and for Australia as a whole.

Yuki Noguchi

Yuki leads Corporate Philanthropy for Australia. She focuses a lot of effort on our Reconciliation Initiative, helping to bring the divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Watch Yuki’s interview to hear why art is so central to our reconciliation program.

Yuki Noguchi

Yuki leads Corporate Philanthropy for Australia. She focuses a lot of effort on our Reconciliation Initiative, helping to bring the divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Watch Yuki’s interview to hear why art is so central to our reconciliation program.

Blair French

Partnership is central to effective philanthropy — especially when it comes to our Reconciliation Initiative where there’s so much we can learn from teaming up with existing experts in the field. In this interview, Blair French, CEO of our philanthropic partner Carriageworks, talks about his organisation’s amazing efforts to promote Aboriginal voices in Australia.

Jonathan Jones

Storytelling is central to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones believes that the sharing of these stories has the power to enhance the cohesion of the Australian nation. Check out this clip to see some of his art and hear why it’s so important for corporations to support local artists.

Jonathan Jones

Storytelling is central to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones believes that the sharing of these stories has the power to enhance the cohesion of the Australian nation. Check out this clip to see some of his art and hear why it’s so important for corporations to support local artists.

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