NAIDOC 2018: BECAUSE OF HER, WE CAN!

Next year NAIDOC week will honour and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and will be held nationally from Sunday, July 8, until Sunday, July 15.

"For at least 65,000 years, Indigenous women have carried our dreaming stories, songlines, languages and knowledge that have kept our culture strong and enriched us as the oldest continuing culture on the planet.

As leaders, trailblazers, politicians, activists and social change advocates, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women fought and continue to fight, for justice, equal rights, our rights to country, for law and justice, access to education, employment and to maintain and celebrate our culture, language, music and art.

They are our mothers, our Elders, our grandmothers, our aunties, our sisters and our daughters. Sadly, Indigenous women’s role in our cultural, social and political survival has often been invisible, unsung or diminished." - Koori Mail

NAIDOC 2018 will honour the achievements of these women and acknowledge how they have empowered past generations and created pathways for future generations.

The National NAIDOC poster competition will open soon. Look out for it at naidoc.org.au

Photo: Evonne Goolagong (Koori Mail)