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NAIDOC
@naidocweek
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to commemorate the history, culture & achievements of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Joined April 2018
- WOW! Well done Lightning Ridge Central School. 4 ladies spent their weekend decorating this cake masterpiece for all of their students and staff to enjoy, at their NAIDOC assembly on Monday. #NAIDOC2021 #HealCountry 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️
- Happy #NAIDOCWeek2020; A week borne from a day of protest, #NAIDOCWeek each year reminds us of the ongoing aspirations of our communities as they continue the movement towards justice and equality.
- BREAKING: The #NAIDOC2021 theme is: HEAL COUNTRY! – which calls for all of us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, our waters, our sacred sites and our cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction.
- The National #NAIDOC Committee is proud to announce the recipients of the National #NAIDOC2022 Week Awards: Person of the Year – Ash Barty AO Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr Stanley Grant Snr AM Female Elder Award – Dr Lois Peeler AM Male Elder Award – Uncle Jack Charles ..1/2
- Sharing this! Designed by Kiah Mackenzie. "I made this in celebration of NAIDOC week! Go out there and kick, sing, dream, write, rap, speak, fight, invent, run, protest, study, lead, compete, practice, and be BRAVE!" 👏🏾👏🏾#NAIDOC2021 #HealCountry
- Renowned Yolngu Elder, David Gulpilil AM receives the 2019 National NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award 👏🏽 Over the past 50 years, David acted in some of the most renowned works in Australian cinema history, changing the world saw Aboriginal people. #NAIDOC2019
- The NAIDOC 2020 theme is Always Was, Always Will Be. 🖤💛❤️💙💚✊🏾 #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #toostrongforyoukaren
- On 26 Jan 1938 at one of the first major civil rights gatherings in the world - the Day of Mourning - we asked for basic human rights. Today 82 yrs later in the week borne from that day we asked for our flags to also be flown in the Senate chamber. Just the flags..nothing else.
- Tyrown Waigana, a Perth based artist and designer, has been named as this year’s winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC Poster Competition. naidoc.org.au/news/waigana-w…
- We're still excited about yesterday's poster launch. Thanks for sharing. It's stunning in real life & the vibrant colours and detail will amaze you. Will be available to download soon and the printed copies will also start circulating in a few weeks. ❤ #NAIDOC2021 #healcountry
00:00 - In recognition of #NAIDOC2021's #HealCountry theme, Facebook Australia has partnered with Campfire x to today launch ‘Connect to Country’– a movement to drive awareness amongst all Australians of the culturally significant Country upon which they live and work every day.
00:00 - Congratulations to Maggie-Jean Douglas - a Gubbi Gubbi artist from SE QLD who is the winner of the prestigious National #NAIDOC2021 poster competition. Her stunning entry – Care For Country - was chosen from 260 entries in the national competition. #HealCountry
- The 2018 National NAIDOC Artist of the Year is Adam @Briggs - a pioneer of the Australian hip hop scene. #NAIDOC2018
