This week has been NAIDOC Week (3-10 July), with this year theme of ‘Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!’. As part of NAIDOC Week, Healthy North Coast has profiled several wonderful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders leaders on the North Coast in news articles and via social media.
You can view these profiles here:
Meet Linda – a proud Coodjingburra Woman of the Bundjalung Nation and owner of Goori Yarning.
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held every year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee and its origins can be “traced back to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Australians.” (NAIDOC website)
The artwork used in this year’s official poster was created by Ryhia Dank, a young Gudanji/Wakaja artist from the Northern Territory and winner of the National NAIDOC poster competition for 2022. Her entry is called ‘Stronger’.
Find out more about NAIDOC Week here.
Find out more about the artwork here.