09/07/2026
This week (July 5-12) is NAIDOC Week! An annual celebration where our nation proudly recognises the strength, vision and legacy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This year's theme 'Fifty Years of Deadly' marks a milestone. It’s a tribute to the people who built the NAIDOC movement. The Elders who stood firm, the organisers who made space, the artists who turned resistance into expression, and the communities who keep showing up, year after year. It’s also about the future. The next 50 years. The young ones growing up proud. The return of language. The return to Country. The fight for justice continuing with new tools, new voices, and the same fire.
About this year's NAIDOC Week poster: Paralpi by Zaachariaha Fielding. Zaachariaha is a proud Yankunytjatjara man from the APY Lands in South Australia and is widely recognised as one of the country’s leading contemporary First Nations artists and musicians. In describing his NAIDOC poster, he says “Paralpi is about movement - movement through generations, through memory, through song and story. It speaks to the strength our people carry and the beauty of culture continuing to evolve while staying deeply connected to who we are.”
You can find out more about it at https://www.naidoc.org.au/
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and stand with the next generation as they continue to lead with courage, culture and connection.