 NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July (postponed this year due to Covid) to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself. Find out more about the origins and history of NAIDOC Week at NAIDOC's site The 2020 National NAIDOC Poster, Shape of Land, was designed by Tyrown Waigana, a Noongar and Saibai Islander man. Tyrown’s artwork tells the story of how the Rainbow Serpent came out of the Dreamtime to create this land. It is represented by the snake and it forms the shape of Australia, which symbolises how it created our lands. The colour from the Rainbow Serpent is reflected on to the figure to display our connection to the Rainbow Serpent, thus our connection to country. The overlapping colours on the outside is the Dreamtime. The figure inside the shape of Australia is a representation of Indigenous Australians showing that this country - since the dawn of time - Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land
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We've had some technical difficulties this end, which means that we've missed a few weeks' worth of "Sunday Morning Kids", sorry about that. We're up and running again, though, and hopefully it's all go from here! Watch the Video here.  ...with Jo and Tony. Thanks, as always, to Rev Ray McCluskey at Cranbourne Uniting Church
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