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To celebrate NAIDOC Week recently, the Australian rugby union team sang the national anthem in the Yugambeh language before their match against England.
They were joined by the Yugambeh Youth Choir in a tribute to Uncle Lloyd McDermott, the first Wallabies player to identify as a First Nations man. The team also wore their First Nations jersey, in recognition of Naidoc week
It was a nice step forward and a nice way to mark NAIDOC Week.
2021 National NAIDOC logo The 4th – 11th July, 2021 is NAIDOC week. Lisa @ANZLitLovers hosts an Indigenous Literature Week to coincide with NAIDOC week. Lisa is careful to acknowledge that as ‘a non-Indigenous Australian, I am mindful that I do not and cannot know or understand all aspects of Indigenous Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and […]
Naidoc Week & Indigenous Picture Books — Brona’s Books
… Being a white European in a country, that has been colonised and saying to other people who want to live in your white European colonised country. That they have to abide by OUR culture. Completely and utterly forgetting that if they want to abide by the actual cultural of that country, that means abiding […]
Imagine…NAIDOC Week — Lolsys Library
Australia Post has announced a neat little idea by setting aside some space on their address labels for indigenous place names.
The announcement coincides with NAIDOC Week and is a nice little acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of the lands of Australia.
It’s been interesting to see how quickly some LitFests have abandoned the digital option. Forgetting altogether that digital options make festival …
2021 Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival: Living on Stolen Land, by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Bricks and Bluebottles 
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