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- Koori Mail
The Koori Mail is the only fully Indigenous-owned and managed newspaper in Australia. Founded by a Walbunja businessman, Owen Carriage, the Koori Mail first went to print in May 1991.
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Koori Radio is proud to present the Sydney NAIDOC Ball 2022 for the community featuring a formal night of First Nations song and dance and a celebration of blak excellence. Coming to you by the same team behind the annual Yabun Festival, the Sydney NAIDOC Ball 2022 invites you to walk the red carpe
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Connections to Home: Uncle Col (Marra) Clark and Jenny Murray-Jones: Coming Home
The Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT) is proud to present two solo exhibitions that explore connection, family and culture by two respected artists, Barkindji and Ngiyampaa Elder, Uncle Colin (Col) Clark and Yorta Yorta and Barapa
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‘Our Warrior’ screening + Q&A with director and Uncle Charles Pakana
Krautungalung Elder and political activist Robbie Thorpe stands as part of a long line of Indigenous resistance to invasion.
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dika-gala punu ŋali yanta-gala
Kullilli people traveling back to country to celebrate NAIDOC and reconnect with culture, language, family and country. -
Kungari Comedy
Kungari Comedy is back for a special NAIDOC Week show.
Kungari Comedy brings you some of the Funniest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander comedians in Australia
MC: Rubii
Featuring
Aden Hitchins
Ben Moodie
Kimmie Lovegrove
Kalah Lovegrove -
Seven Sisters
Kungka Tjuta Arts is working in partnership with Port Augusta Children’s Centre, KWY, AFSS and Housing SA to offer a unique event allowing women to watch and collaborate in a Yankunytjatjara cultural experience including singing, dance, and Aboriginal painting of sections of the Seven’s Sisters s -
Mapoon Naidoc Celebrations
Kup Mari, Face Painting, Beading, Weaving, Coconut Husking, Coloring Competition and more -
Lala Gutchen
Lala Gutchen is a proud Meuram woman from Erub Island in the Torres Strait who has worked tirelessly to protect and preserve her Country and Culture for future generations.
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Lala Gutchen
National NAIDOC Caring for Country and Culture Award CategoryLala Gutchen is a proud Meuram woman from Erub Island in the Torres Strait who has worked tirelessly to protect and preserve her Country and Culture for future generations. An outstanding youth leader and bearer of cultural knowledge, Lala is dedicated to protecting her homelands and culture across the Torres Strait. As well as being a cultural knowledge holder, Lala is also a fisherwoman, a composer, a mother, a community organiser, working to become a certified linguist, and a strong advocate for the cultural rights of her people and families.
For the past three years, Lala has worked with the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation on the Erub Mer language project. Working closely with her father, Kapua Gutchen, an Erub Mer mentor and language holder, they recorded over 2000+ unrecorded words in Erub Mer. As part of her work in language preservation and education, Lala has co-authored a series of journal articles for the Foundation of Endangered Languages. In 2019 Lala was also named a Young Champion by First Languages Australia. Lala has provided mentoring as a Community Educator through Living Languages and has participated in research discovery workshops with the Queensland State Library.
Lala has worked with tech giants like Google and Apple to create the Erub Mer literacy app, in order to preserve languages for the future generations. She also recently oversaw the development of an early literacy game (app) in Erub Mer language. Lala’s goal is to see young people excited to explore their language and culture. To reach this goal Lala works tirelessly to preserve the language for future generations. Lala also represented the Torres Strait nationally at the recent Warra: Indigenous Language Youth Forum in Adelaide. Lala works with Erub community members and peers to compose new language songs and reteach old language songs in Erub Mer. Through her work as a fisherwoman and traditional gardener, Lala works on land and sea, demonstrating her exemplary strength, dedication, and her passion for preserving cultures and protecting the land.
Lala has also been a key cultural witness in a historic Queensland Land Court case, where she provided evidence for her people about the impact that the Waratah Coal’s Galilee Coal Project would have on the Torres Strait including on the islands of Erub, Poruma and Merad which are threatened by rising sea levels due to climate change. This was the first time the Queensland Land Court had travelled to listen to evidence on-Country from Traditional Owners and Lala hosted the court lawyers in her home, cooked for them and facilitated communication between the Land Court and community. The Land Court later ruled that the planned coal mine would infringe upon the rights of Torres Strait Islanders and that it would significantly contribute to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions after the landmark on-Country visit.
Lala is a role model, leader and facilitator who represents her family, community and people. Every day she faces the difficult task of standing up for her Country and is dedicated to passing on the cultural knowledge of her Elders and ancestors to her daughter and future generations. Lala is a widely respected leader in her community for her commitment to caring for Country and language to keep culture strong.
Welcome to NAIDOC.
We acknowledge all First Peoples of the beautiful lands on which we live and celebrate their enduring knowledge and connections to Country. We honour the wisdom of and pay respect to Elders past and present.