National NAIDOC Week

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year the theme is ‘For Our Elders’.

NAIDOC Week is an annual observance in Australia that celebrates the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The acronym “NAIDOC” stands for the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, which originally established the event.

NAIDOC Week provides an opportunity for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to come together, learn, and share in the rich cultural heritage of the country’s First Nations peoples. It plays a vital role in fostering reconciliation, promoting awareness, and strengthening the understanding of Indigenous cultures and their contributions to the nation’s identity.

The theme for NAIDOC Week changes annually to reflect the significant issues and achievements relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. These themes often highlight important aspects such as culture, land, history, language, and the ongoing struggle for justice and equality. The theme for 2023 is ‘For Our Elders’.

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The construction of Australia Day: a study of public relations as ‘new cultural intermediaries’
Jim Macnamara & Robert Crawford

Silence and resistance: Aboriginal women working within and against the archive
Evelyn Araluen Corr

After the apology: Reframing violence and suffering in First Australians, Australia, and Samson and Delilah
Neeraj Kumar Singh, Praveen Kumar Gupta & Vasundhara Mahajan

Language, culture and access to mathematics: a case of one remote Aboriginal community
Robyn Jorgensen

Service learning with First Peoples: a framework to support respectful and reciprocal learning
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett, Anne Power & Naomi Sunderland

Playing the game of school mathematics: being explicit for Indigenous learners and access to learning
Robyn Jorgensen

‘Interpretive possibilities’: Aboriginal men and clothing
Tim Rowse

Colonization, coloniality and bio-power: biopolitics in Queensland, Australia
Carlos Rivera Santana

The Stigma of White Privilege
Emma Kowal

Educating Rita at the cultural interface: exploring intersections between race and gender in the experiences of Australian Aboriginal women at university
Rebecca Bennett, Bep Uink & Chanelle van den Berg

Engaging Aboriginal Families to Support Student and Community Learning
Jacquie Widin and Keiko Yasukawa

Learning together on Country: reimagining design education in Austr alia
Nicola St John & Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek

Narlim’s Fingerprints: Aboriginal Histories and Rock Art
Sally K. May, Laura Rademaker, Joachim Goldhahn, Paul S. C. Tacon & Julie Narndul Gumurdul

Creating a legal identity: Aboriginal people and the assimilation census
Heather Douglas and John Chesterman

Gendered knowledges: Aboriginal women and the politics of feminism
Jan Pettman

Sustainability, development and rural aboriginal communities Jocelyn Davies & Elspeth Young

Prehistoric Aboriginal impacts on Australian vegetation: an assessment of the evidence
Lesley Head

Spatial redistribution of the Torres Strait Islander population: a preliminary analysis
J. Taylor & W.S. Arthur

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