Treasury's Spirit Awards
Treasury welcomes Ngunnawal Elders, Aunty Violet Sheridan, Uncle Warren Daley and the Wiradjuri Echoes to help us commemorate NAIDOC week.
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Treasury welcomes Ngunnawal Elders, Aunty Violet Sheridan, Uncle Warren Daley and the Wiradjuri Echoes to help us commemorate NAIDOC week.
Trevor Farrell is a proud Yued Wilunyu man from Geraldton Western Australia. He’s represented his culture through public speaking, sport, and leadership roles, including being a youth voice at Yamatji Country and the NACCHO Youth Forum.
Trevor takes pride in everything he does and always gives 100% because he wants to inspire others and show them, they can too. It’s the small everyday actions that give others the confidence to step up and make a difference in their own way. Trevor believes in the saying, from little things, big things grow.
“Oh Trucanini
What did your dreamtime spirit feel
As it watched them take you after death As a rare museum piece,
Oh Trucanini
Will the dreamtime spirits of our race
One day rise with us
As they did with you.”
Trying to reconcile her fragmented upbringing, an Aboriginal woman searches for the white parents who raised her before she returned to her birth family.
Twenty-four-year-old Kiel Williams-Weigel was born and raised inBrisbane and is a proud descendant of the Mununjali people of the Beaudesert region.
Tyrown Waigana, a Perth based artist and designer, has been named as this year’s winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC Poster Competition.
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.