NAIDOC WEEK

The theme for NAIDOC week for 2023 is For Our Elders.

Across every generation, Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in First Nations communities and families. They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders and hard workers.

They guide First Nations generations and paved the way for them to take the paths they can take today. Guidance, not only through generations of advocacy and activism, but in everyday life and how our First Nations community members place themselves in the world.

May we all draw strength from their knowledge and experience, in everything from land management, cultural knowledge to justice and human rights. Across multiple sectors like health, education, the arts, politics and everything in between, they have set the many courses currently followed and continue to pave new ones.

The struggles of our own Wiradjuri/Wiradyuri Elders help to move the Wagga Wagga community forward today. The equality they continue to fight for is found in their fight. Their tenacity and strength has carried the survival of First Nations people.

Wagga Wagga City Council pay our respects to the Wiradjuri/Wiradyuri Elders we’ve lost and to those who continue fighting for all First Nations individuals across all our Nations and this NAIDOC week, we pay homage to them.

In 2023, how will you celebrate For Our Elders?

Check out the packed program of events and activities from 2 - 9 July in Wagga Wagga on Wiradyuri Country. From the NAIDOC March and flag raising to an Elders Ball, there is something for everyone to get involved.
Click HERE for more information: https://wagga.nsw.gov.au/community/annual-events/naidoc-week