Dr Lynette Riley, NAIDOC Committee
Because of her, we can! - Dr Virginia Marshall
Because of her, we can! - Mayor Vonda Malone
Because of her, we can! - Rhonda Radley
Ben Mitchell, NAIDOC Committee Co-Chair
"Because of my wife, the mother to our 8 children, I can!"
Ben Mitchell from the Meriam and Mualgal peoples of the Eastern and Western Torres Straits, and National NAIDOC Committee Co-Chair gives a moving tribute to his wife of 21 years Marcia Salam. “The trials she’s been through, with Ovarian Cancer and losing our last child. To go through that and raise the rest of our 7 children, she is an inspiration to me. Because of what she is, and who she is I am able to do everything that I can in my life because of her.”
Anne Martin, NAIDOC Committee Co-Chair
About the artwork: tarmunggie Woman
Painted by Bigambul woman, Cheryl Moggs, from Goondiwindi, the painting portrays the 2018 theme, Because of her, we can! showing the courage and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Cheryl shares in her own words below, the inspiration behind the artwork.
Artwork powers NAIDOC celebration of Indigenous women
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2017 National NAIDOC Award winners honoured in Cairns
2017 NAIDOC Week theme announced - Our Languages Matter
The importance, resilience and richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages will be the focus of national celebrations marking NAIDOC Week 2017.
The 2017 theme - Our Languages Matter - aims to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that Indigenous languages play in both cultural identity, linking people to their land and water, and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song.
