Naidoc Week

NAIDOC week, which is celebrated annually in the full first week of July, stands for ‘National Aboriginal and Islanders Day of Observance Committee’.

Australia celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and communities and recognises the valuable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make to our country.

This year the NAIDOC 2017 theme is – ‘Our Languages Matter’. The theme aims to celebrate the essential role that Indigenous languages play in both cultural identity, linking people to their land and water, and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song.

Our NAIDOC display in the library...books, creative paintings and posters has been created by aboriginal students from St Agnes. Special mention, look for the campfire and fish swimming in the stream.

NAIDOC