NAIDOC Week 2025

This NAIDOC Week, we honour 50 years of celebrating Indigenous strength, resilience, and storytelling. The 2025 theme, The Next Generation – Strength, Vision & Legacy, invites us to look ahead – to the next generation of leaders – while recognising the legacy that lights the way.

This year we will unite NAIDOC Week and National Science Week to explore and honour the powerful relationship between First Nations storytelling and science.

Blak Art Markets by Big Eye Theatre

Kick off our special NAIDOC x National Science Week as the Blak Art Markets by Big Eye Theatre returns to take over the Great Gallery. With a range performances, workshops and market stalls selling textiles, arts, jewellery, homewares, and clothing on offer, you’re bound to have a deadly day out.

Date: Saturday 9th August
Time: 9am - 1pm
Entry: Free

NAIDOC x National Science Week Storytime Science

Storytime Science is an engaging program for young learners aged 3-5 years and their parents and carers. At its core, the program is designed to support the development of scientific literacy and confidence and this special First Nations Storytime Science will focus on the natural world and First Nations science.

Dates: Friday 8th and Saturday 9th August
Time: 10am - 10:45am
Entry: Free | no bookings required

NAIDOC Lunchtime Lecture with Tracey Hough (Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation)

Ngali Wanthi “we search together”.

Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking NAIDOC Week lecture exploring how research and Traditional Knowledge can walk together.
Mithaka People are the Native Title owners of 33,800km2 located in the Channel Country of southwest Queensland, as well as the last claimants to a further 22,000km2 west of Cooper Creek.
Tracey Hough will share the story of the Mithaka People of southwest Queensland and their groundbreaking Mithaka Research Framework – a model that puts cultural protocols, ethical practice, and cross-cultural partnership at the heart of research.
Learn how the Mithaka community is reclaiming and managing knowledge in ways that benefit Country, Culture and People, and how research can be reimagined through a First Nations lens.

Date: Friday 15 August
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Entry: Free | Bookings required | Coffee & tea provided
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Find out more about our NAIDOC Week Schools Program here.