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1. Learn Traditional Weaving
   Amber Galvin is leading a traditional weaving workshop where you will learn a weaving technique and make your own small basket. The cost is $10 which will be donated to the Gloucester Worimi First Peoples Aboriginal Corperation

2. Amelia Telford

   Amelia Telford is a Bundjalung woman originating from Northern New South Wales.

3. 2025 National NAIDOC Week Poster

   Ancestral Lines is a visual representation of the lines and ties that follow a generation and the songs that come with it. 

4. NAIDOC Week Celebration at Ashmont

   Anglicare invites you to join us in celebration 2021 NAIDOC Week! 10.00am-3.30pm Wednesday 7 July 2021 at Ashmont Community Resource Centre 42 Tobruk Street, Ashmont NSW 2650 Join us for a family-friendly event with: - Jumping Castles - Cultural Activities - Live Music - Face Painting - Traditiona
5. Listen

   Anika Gosling

   National NAIDOC Youth Award Category

   

   Anika Gosling is a proud Wadjuk Noongar woman from Perth. She holds a Bachelor’s degree, Honours, and a Master’s in Psychology, and currently works as a School Psychologist. In this role, she supports Aboriginal youth, focusing on enhancing their social and emotional wellbeing. 

   Anika is deeply passionate about youth mental health, believing it lays the foundation for strong, resilient futures. Outside of work, Anika competes in discus and enjoys staying active. Her long-term goal is to establish her own business dedicated to empowering and supporting Aboriginal youth in their life journeys.

6. Ms. Anika Gosling

   Anika Gosling is a proud Wadjuk Noongar woman from Perth. She holds a Bachelor’s degree, Honours, and a Master’s in Psychology, and currently works as a School Psychologist. In this role, she supports Aboriginal youth, focusing on enhancing their social and emotional wellbeing.
7. Dr Anita Heiss AM
   

   Dr Anita Heiss AM is a proud member of the Wiradyuri nation of central New South Wales and one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known authors publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction and children’s fiction.  

   Anita’s children’s literature includes Who Am I? the diary of Mary Talence, Our Race for Reconciliation, Harry’s Secret, Matty’s Comeback, Koori Princess and Kicking Goals with Goodesy and Magic, co-written with Adam Goodes and Micheal O’Loughlin. She also wrote two kid's novels with students from La Perouse Public School - Yirra and Her Deadly Dog, Demon, and Demon Guards the School Yard. 

   Anita’s non-fiction works include Am I Black Enough for You?, Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight) – Publishing Aboriginal Literature, and as editor, Growing Up Wiradjuri, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature which she co-edited with Peter Minter. 

   Her adult fiction includes Not Meeting Mr Right, Avoiding Mr Right, Manhattan Dreaming, Paris Dreaming and Tiddas. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize and was the University of Canberra 2020 Book of the Year. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel (Adult Category) and the 2022 ABIA Awards, and longlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize. 

   In 2023, Anita released her first children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell, and re-released her rom-coms. 

   In 2004, Anita was listed in The Bulletin magazine’s “Smart 100”. Her memoir Am I Black Enough for You? was a finalist in the 2012 Human Rights Awards and she was a finalist in the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards (Local Hero). 

   As an advocate for Indigenous literacy, Anita has worked in remote communities as a role model encouraging young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to write their own stories. On an international level she has performed her own work and lectured on Aboriginal literature across the globe at universities and conferences, consulates and embassies in the USA, Canada, the UK, Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia, Spain, Japan, Austria, Germany, China, France, India and New Zealand. Anita is a Lifetime Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, and a proud Ambassador of Worawa Aboriginal College, the GO Foundation and the Sydney Swans. 

   Anita is a Professor of Communications at the University of QLD and is on the board of the National Justice Project and Circa Contemporary Theatre. 

   Anita’s first play Tiddas, produced by La Boite Theatre had its world premiere at the 2022 Brisbane Festival. 

   Anita loves chocolate, running and being a creative disruptor.

8. In conversation with Dr. Anita Heiss hosted by The Moroccan Soup Bar

   Dr Anita Heiss will launch her new book Am I black enough for you? 10 years on. Lunch provided by the Moroccan Soup Bar Readings Bookstore will be onsite for book purchases. Buy a copy for your self and a gift for someone else and get it signed by Anita.

9. Virtual Indigenous Governance Forum 2025

   In this annual forum, we invite you to join us to explore Indigenous governance and the structures, systems, and processes by which different First Nations peoples have framed leadership, culture, social and economic practic

10. NAIDOC Events for Friday 8 July

    Annual NAIDOC Breakfast at Outback at Isa, NAIDOC Street March through the Mount Isa CBD, MOBFM NAIDOC family fun day with food stalls, info and live entertainment