ACT Reconciliation Council co-chair Dr Chris Bourke said Reconciliation Week was an important time for all Canberrans to have a discussion about reconciliation.

"For the last couple of years we've had a public gathering in Glebe Park where thousands of Canberrans have got together to learn more about reconciliation and what it might mean for them and their families."

"Unfortunately we can't get together like we used to in this troubled time and as a result the government has been able to use social media, and electronic means to engage our community."

Events planned by ACT's Reconciliation Council have been canceled or reworked into online events such as workshops on caring for country. On Wednesday night the National Capital Authority began a week of projections on the National Carillon.

"These are powerful messages and images and I would like to personally thank everyone for their contribution to this important project," NCA chair Terry Weber said.

"We hope the nation enjoys seeing these messages against the backdrop of Lake Burley Griffin."

Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services chief executive Julie Tongs said it was sad the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge walk was cancelled. This year's bridge walk would have marked 20 years since the first walk for reconciliation.

"We would have walked across Commonwealth Avenue Bridge to show respect and support for those people from the stolen generation, and we still see the impact that it has till this day."

"It's disappointing but we will quietly remember those people, and as a service, we will have a minute silence to remember the people that have gone before us and the impact this has had on them and their families."

Ms Tongs said that more than a decade since former prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology speech, Indigenous communities were still affected by child removals.

"We talk about 'the stolen generations' - well, it really hasn't stopped.

"Even though we had the Bringing Them Home report, we have more Aboriginal kids in of home care now than when that report and the recommendations came out," she said. "It's frustrating we have the Royal Commission into deaths in custody report and the Bringing Them Home report and the recommendations don't get implemented."

Dr Bourke said that having a greater understanding of Australia's history and the treatment of first nations Australians was an important first step.

"We don't have reconciliation - lets be very clear about that. But we need to take those fundamental steps to understand and acknowledge the true history of our country."

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"Many non-Aboriginal or [non-]Torres Strait Islander people are completely unaware of what occurred in this country over the last 230 years," he said.

"Some fabulous things happened, some terrible things happened - that's the thing about history, you need to embrace all of it so you can have a sense of healing and reconciliation."