Keep the Fire Burning Resource 2024

This resource was created by Common Ground and Jordyn Green from Learning to Ngangaanha. The resource links to the
Australian Curriculum for Years 3-7 and has a strong focus on the subject areas of English, Humanities and Social Sciences and The Arts.
The resource is designed to be used during NAIDOC Week over five days – from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July. There are five sections, each focusing on a different concept relating to the 2024 NAIDOC theme.

In February 2022, the legendary Gunditjamara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung Senior Elder, song man and storyteller, Archie Roach AC AM released his anthology album My Songs: 1989–2021. It featured only one lead single – the meaningful and affecting One Song, which became the title of the MSO’s landmark concert in tribute to Archie’s life and work. MSO.LIVE is proud to present its performance of One Song: The Music of Archie Roach, which took pride of place at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in February 2022. A collaboration between Archie and his long-time friend and musical collaborator Paul Grabowsky AO, this stunning and moving concert was Archie’s last performance with the MSO. An evening of powerful song and sublime storytelling, this performance includes iconic songs such as Took the Children Away, Jamu Dreaming and Weeping in the Forest, which each tell of trauma, identity, and hope. The MSO’s triumphant concert is released here to honour NAIDOC Week 2023.

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Founded in 2014, Spinifex Gum is an Australian collective that brings together the sound of Marliya – choir of talented young Indigenous women and girls from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait – the music of Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill (The Cat Empire), and the choreography of Deborah Brown. This stirring MSO performance explores themes of politics, justice, friendship and community. The performers of Spinifex Gum, under the baton of Benjamin Northey, share stories of the Yindjibarndi people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, encouraging us to connect with our First Nations narratives. As Classic Melbourne noted, ‘The combination of striking images, kaleidoscopic lighting, the bringing together of so many disparate musical parts into a coherent whole … made this performance of Spinifex Gum an experience that will continue to resonate in our lives.’ This release on MSO.LIVE marks the observance of NAIDOC Week 2022 and honours its theme ‘For our Elders’.

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These NAIDOC Educational Resources can be used to obtain foundational knowledge about National NAIDOC Week and the history of themes since 1972.

The teaching ideas developed by the National NAIDOC Committee directly support teachers in addressing The Australian Curriculum: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture cross-curriculum priority. Content can be used across multiple learning areas and stages/grades from Foundational Studies to Year 12. The material on this site may also be relevant to VET and University students undertaking Indigenous Studies.

SBS is the Official Education Partner for National NAIDOC Week.  SBS produces the National NAIDOC Week Educational Resources which contain concepts relevant to a broad range of learners and topics, and will provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in classrooms beyond the dates of NAIDOC Week.  Download a beautiful PDF booklet and view the comprehensive online Teachers Resource resource for 2022 HERE.

Ryhia Dank, a young Gudanji/Wakaja artist from the Northern Territory was the winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC poster competition for 2022 with her entry, Stronger.  Meet Ryhia and learn more about her storywork by watching this VIDEO HERE.

Check out the Gallery of NAIDOC Posters from 1972 to the present HERE.

The National NAIDOC Committee is proud to announce that the 2023 National NAIDOC Week theme is For Our Elders.

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Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families.  They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, hard workers and our loved ones.

Our loved ones who pick us up in our low moments and celebrate us in our high ones. Who cook us a feed to comfort us and pull us into line, when we need them too.  They guide our generations and pave the way for us to take the paths we can take today. Guidance, not only through generations of advocacy and activism, but in everyday life and how to place ourselves in the world.

We draw strength from their knowledge and experience, in everything from land management, cultural knowledge to justice and human rights. Across multiple sectors like health, education, the arts, politics and everything in between, they have set the many courses we follow.

The struggles of our Elders help to move us forward today. The equality we continue to fight for is found in their fight. Their tenacity and strength has carried the survival of our people.  It is their influence and through their learnings that we must ensure that when it comes to future decision making for our people, there is nothing about us – without us.

We pay our respects to the Elders we’ve lost and to those who continue fighting for us across all our Nations and we pay homage to them.

In 2023, how will you celebrate For Our Elders?