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NAIDOC WEEK 2022 IPSWICH



IMPORTANT NAIDOC IPSWICH UPDATE

NAIDOC Ipswich event will now be held at the Ipswich Turf Club, Bundamba. Thursday, 7 July 2022. 10.00am - 2.00pm


Enjoy a day of celebration with cultural performers, information stalls, entertainment, food, children’s rides and Elder’s area.


We have a proud history of getting up, standing up, and showing up.


From the frontier wars and our earliest resistance fighters to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities fighting for change today—we continue to show up.


Now is our time. We cannot afford to lose momentum for change.


We all must continue to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! for systemic change and keep rallying around our mob, our Elders, our communities.


Whether it’s seeking proper environmental, cultural and heritage protections, Constitutional change, a comprehensive process of truth-telling, working towards treaties, or calling out racism—we must do it together.


It must be a genuine commitment by all of us to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! and support and secure institutional, structural, collaborative, and cooperative reforms.


It’s also time to celebrate the many who have driven and led change in our communities over generations—they have been the heroes and champions of change, of equal rights and even basic human rights.


Getting Up, Standing Up, and Showing Up can take many forms.


We need to move beyond just acknowledgment, good intentions, empty words and promises, and hollow commitments. Enough is enough.


The relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non‑Indigenous Australians needs to be based on justice, equity, and the proper recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights.


Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! with us to amplify our voices and narrow the gap between aspiration and reality, good intent and outcome.

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