In 2023, how will you celebrate For Our Elders?
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National NAIDOC Week 2023
July 2, 2023 - July 9, 2023
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This year’s NAIDOC Week theme, ‘For Our Elders’, honours the role Elders played, and continue to play, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and families.
National NAIDOC Week celebrations will be held across Australia to celebrate the history, cultures, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that have been made possible by Elders from generation to generation.
Find out more about this year’s theme, For Our Elders, and don’t miss your opportunity to participate in something enriching and special near you. Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families.
Show your support and get to know your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and pay your respects to their Elders at activities and events near you, or organise a NAIDOC celebration with your friends or colleagues.
Celebrate National NAIDOC Week in 2023
NAIDOC Week is celebrated by local community events taking place across Australia. Discover the exciting events held in your local area where you can share in the celebrations and get involved. Choose from an immersive range of arts and cultural events, to family fun days, BBQs and bushwalks. There is something for everyone!
Hold your own NAIDOC celebration
You can get involved in National NAIDOC Week celebrations in your own community at home or in your workplace and show your support for the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Here are some ideas on how to celebrate NAIDOC Week:
- Display the National NAIDOC Poster or other Indigenous posters around your workplace.
- Listen to Indigenous musicians or watch a movie about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history.
- Make your own Indigenous trivia quiz to run as a team bonding experience.
- Research the Traditional Owners of your area.
- Work with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist to produce an artwork representing the theme.
- Visit local Indigenous sites of significance or interest.
- Invite local Elders to speak or give a Welcome to Country at your workplace.
- Invite a First Nations sportsperson or artist to visit you.
- Invite Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander dancers to perform.
- Host a community BBQ or luncheon or hold a flag raising ceremony.
To help you get started, you can download the National NAIDOC Week toolkit to get inspired plus NAIDOC Logos and other resources to share with your team.
Meet this year’s National NAIDOC Week Award finalists
Discover the faces of Blak excellence in your community participating in this year’s National NAIDOC Week Awards. These courageous individuals exemplify the spirit of NAIDOC in their contributions to their communities across the Country.
Read the inspiring stories of the 2023 finalists.
Discover the National NAIDOC Week Poster of 2023
Meet Bobbi Lockyer, a proud Ngarluma, Kariyarra, Nyulnyul and Yawuru artist, born and based on Kariyarra Country in Port Hedland, and the winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC Week Poster Competition for 2023 with her entry, For Our Elders.
Listen to Bobbi’s story and download your copy of the NAIDOC poster.
Download AELERTs Reconciliation Action Plan
We acknowledge all First Peoples of the beautiful lands on which we live and celebrate their enduring knowledge and connections to Country. We honour the wisdom of and pay respect to Elders past and present. We have an opportunity to enable and encourage our members and partners to take the journey and share their experiences and their stories, so we collectively learn and act on reconciliation in Australia.