NAIDOC Poster Gallery | NAIDOC

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2 – 9 July 2023

NAIDOC Week posters from 1972 to the present.

2020s

2022 NAIDOC week poster

NAIDOC 2022 Poster

NAIDOC 2021 Poster

Rainbow Serpent outlining a map of Australia. Figure inside the map representing Ancestors. Wording ‘always was, and always will be’.

NAIDOC 2020 poster

2010s

Text “Voice Treaty Truth” inside a large dot painted circle against a night’s sky. Underneath is stylised elements featuring red earth and Uluru.

NAIDOC 2019 Poster

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women past and present. Peace Symbols, foot prints and hands reaching up. Words: Thank you, Equal, Justice, Peace and Yes.

NAIDOC 2018 poster

Text: ‘Our Languages Matter’. Hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language names superimposed on pink, purple, blue, green, orange and yellow concentric circles.

NAIDOC 2017 Poster

Dot artwork of Songlines criss-crossing, east to west, north to south, and diagonally. They create a cultural network.

NAIDOC 2016 Poster

Text across the top - Sacred Ground, Learn Respect & Celebrate. Culture, Heritage, Awareness, Educate, History, Tradition, Legends, Customary. In the centre the text reads “We all stand on sacred ground, learn, respect and celebrate.”

NAIDOC 2015 Poster

This poster depicts three brothers in military uniforms standing in water. Ancestors are reflected in the water.

NAIDOC 2014 Poster

Brown bark background with wording We value the Vision, Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963.

NAIDOC 2013 Poster

Top of poster is Old Parliament House grounds with the four protesters and a beach umbrella. Bottom section has Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in education, sport, business, industry, healthcare and buying a house.

NAIDOC 2012 Poster

Family links hands as they step out on a road featuring encouraging and historical events in words.

NAIDOC 2011 Poster

An Aboriginal mother with two children, on their path are signs that say “School” “TAFE University” “Work” “Success”.

NAIDOC 2010 Poster

2000s

The poster depicts past Elders watching over a number of children.

NAIDOC 2009 Poster

The colours of the background depict the land, the word sorry in the centre is in blue representing water and a healing point.

NAIDOC 2008 Poster

Strong imagery and bold colours representing Indigenous people. Figure climbing the staircase is carrying battle-torn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags towards a brighter future – a future where all Australians are equal.

NAIDOC 2007 Poster

Image of a figure transposed against a vivid orange sun. The figure stands on a footbridge between two roads, one symbolising the future and one the past.

NAIDOC 2006 Poster

Stylised artwork in blues and reds with figures carrying a transparent cube/box that contains images of Indigenous people and symbolism of animals and implements, with one figure leading and pointing the way towards some grey boulders.

NAIDOC 2005 Poster

Features two hands encompassing figures and artwork connecting community.

NAIDOC 2004 Poster

Features figures with children and babies, with tall plants growing upwards.

NAIDOC 2003 Poster

Features a painting of Aboriginal faces in leaf shapes, arranged in a spiral against a blue background.

NAIDOC 2002 Poster

2001 National NAIDOC Poster

NAIDOC 2001 Poster

Features six circular paintings of Aboriginal people in different domestic situations.

NAIDOC 2000 Poster

1990s

Painting of stylised Aboriginal mother and child encircled by the rainbow serpent.

NAIDOC 1999 Poster

Features a painting depicting different scenes of Indigenous people, including two men holding up a white banner which contains the title.

NAIDOC 1998 Poster

Features an almost circular indigenous dot painting incorporating the words, "Three strikes for justice- Gurindji, Mabo, Wyk".

NAIDOC 1997 Poster

Poster contains map of Australia contains Aboriginal people’s faces surrounded by water in which a snake and goanna swim. Wording Revive. Survive. Come Alive are at the top of the poster in red colour.

NAIDOC 1996 Poster

Landscape with a grass tree in the foreground, and images of Indigenous people forming the sky. Headlines on newspaper include "Black Deaths in Custody", White Australia Policy", and "Blacks Barred from Hotel".

NAIDOC 1995 Poster

Features a family group of Indigenous people with a dingo and a humpy in the background. A border incorporating hand stencils and leaves. Text reads: Families are the basis of our existence maintain the link.

NAIDOC 1994 Poster

Baby in Coolamon surrounded by ancestor spirits and totem animals, snakes, emu, kangaroo, goanna, turtles. Wording reads: Aboriginal Nations. Owners of the lands since time began. 1993 Aboriginal and Islanders Observance Committee – Community is Unity.

NAIDOC 1993 Poster

Colour ink on paper. Title: 'National Aborigines' and Islanders' Week. Community is Unity'. Features artwork on black background; yellow, orange and white printed text.

NAIDOC 1992 Poster

Poster divided in to sections coloured in Aboriginal flag- black yellow red. Words Community is Unity and images of male and female Indigenous dancers in cultural costume. Image of child in the bottom panel with wording ‘Our future depends on us”.

NAIDOC 1991 Poster

A New Decade. “Don’t destroy, Learn and enjoy our cultural heritage” Images of Aboriginal people including: children at desks, women doing traditional dancing, faces, on country, sitting on the ground talking, playing AFL and a city image.

NAIDOC 1990 Poster

1980s

Features a painting of Australia surrounded by rows of black stick figures holding hands, alternated with white stick figures. Text: NAIDOC Week September 4-10 1989. The Party is over. Let’s be together as an Aboriginal nation.

NAIDOC 1989 Poster

Pixelated image of Aboriginal person in red, black and yellow. Black wording on white background: Recognise and share the survival of the oldest culture in the world.

NAIDOC 1988 Poster

The design features a rolled paper scroll against a black background, with a large snake forming a silhouette of Australia and an assemblage of Indigenous people and motifs spread throughout the composition, with red and blue printed text below.

NAIDOC 1987 Poster

Text reads: 'Peace - not for you, not for me, but for all of us'. Captioned photograph on black background decorated by rows of red, yellow and white dots along vertical edges. Printed text above and below the photograph in red, white, and yellow print.

NAIDOC 1986 Poster

The poster also referenced the 1985 International Youth Year, with an image of a smiling younger Indigenous person.

NAIDOC 1985 Poster

Anmatjira style art. Shown with links to the land in symbolic style.

NAIDOC 1984 Poster

Colour ink on paper. Title: 'Let's Talk - We Have Something To Say’. Features a photograph of an Aboriginal woman telling a story, using string, to three young Aboriginal children; printed in red text.

NAIDOC 1983 Poster

Image of an Aboriginal male athlete running superimposed on an Aboriginal dot painting background, with the words Australians without Shame; Compete in the Games; Sure winners must be; Land Identity Equality.

NAIDOC 1982 Poster

A colour poster featuring a photograph of a rocky landscape with a creek and three pelicans in the background. On lower right corner: "Sacred sites, Aboriginal rights, other Australians have their rites".

NAIDOC 1981 Poster

A colour poster issued to promote NAIDOC week in 1980. Features a photograph of a camp site with humpies (or gunyahs) with Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the background.

NAIDOC 1980 Poster

1970s

Images of a number of Aboriginal children set within the outline of Australia, poses the question in terms of an accusatory exclamation: what about our kids!

NAIDOC 1979 Poster

Colour ink on paper. Photograph of rock art. Titled 'Cultural Revival is Survival' in black and white lettering. White text runs along lower portion.

NAIDOC 1978 Poster

Text reads: "1967: Referendum. 1977: where is justice - land - compensation - dignity? Queensland discriminatory acts still exist. U.N year to end discrimination."

NAIDOC 1977 Poster

Poster features black and white image Trugernanner (Truganini, or Trucanini) superimposed over the shape of Australia, with lines of verse from a poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) at the left. Set on a brown background.

NAIDOC 1976 Poster

Text reads: Land Rights, Aboriginality, Health, Housing, Parliamentary representation, Employment, Mutual Understanding, Implementation of Woodward Report, Identity, Education, Unity of Purpose, N.A.C.C. Industrial Relations, Communication.

NAIDOC 1974 Poster

Aboriginal Tent Embassy with people sitting in front of three green tents with Old Parliament House in the background. A large blank yellow rectangle is at foot of poster and appears to be intended for the insertion of details about local events.

NAIDOC 1972 Poster