{"id":42926,"date":"2020-11-09T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/?p=42926"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T22:27:43","slug":"five-ways-to-celebrate-naidoc-week-2020-always-was-always-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/events\/five-ways-to-celebrate-naidoc-week-2020-always-was-always-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways To Celebrate NAIDOC Week 2020: \u2018Always Was, Always Will Be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This piece is written by Marlee Silva. Marlee is a young Aboriginal woman from the Gamilaroi and Dunghutti nations. She is the founder of social media-based movement ‘Tiddas 4 Tiddas’, which uses strength-based storytelling to champion the voices of Indigenous Australian women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NAIDOC WEEK<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NAIDOC Week is an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people\u2019s culture, history and accomplishments for all Australians, Indigenous and not, to observe and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually occurring in early July, NAIDOC is yet another event on the calendar not spared by COVID19, and instead will fall between the 8th<\/sup> and 15th<\/sup> of November in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is NAIDOC Week?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community action committed to fighting for the rights and equal opportunities of Aboriginal people has a long history in Australia and the foundations of NAIDOC Week can be found in the 1920s as Aboriginal rights groups first boycotted Australia Day (26 January) in protest against the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name NAIDOC originally stood for the \u2018National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee\u2019 which once resided over national action and events dedicated to furthering the hopes and desires of Aboriginal Australia, and subsequently formed the foundations of the modern NAIDOC celebration we see today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it exists as an entire week filled with local and national events, awards ceremonies, forums and thought-provoking discussions that hope to bring attention to stories, issues and ideas from the Indigenous community that are otherwise unheard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, NAIDOC is also centralised around a particular theme which guides specific discussions or focuses that are important to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2020 NAIDOC theme is: Always Was, Always Will Be, which recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for the continent of Australia for over 65,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the history of NAIDOC Week here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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