Key Issue 1
Understanding Country - the importance of land and sea in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies.
Key Issue 2
Improving Relationships - between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the wider community.
Key Issue 3
Valuing Cultures - valuing the unique Indigenous cultures of Australia.
Key Issue 4
Sharing History - incorporating Indigenous Australia's part in Australian history.
Key issue 5
Addressing Disadvantage - as experienced by many Indigenous Australians with respect to health, housing, employment.
Key Issue 6
Custody levels - reducing the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians.
Key Issue 7
Destiny - greater opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to control their destinies.
Key Issue 8
Formal Document - agreement on whether the process of reconciliation would be advanced by a document or documents of reconciliation.
CAR produced a pamphlet Reconciliation and its Key Issues, and a booklet on each issue, for distribution and use by schools and study groups and for informing the general public.