The origins of NAIDOC Week are rooted in protest and pushing for the advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. 

But as more and more mainstream companies get involved in NAIDOC Week, is the real meaning and purpose behind NAIDOC Week being lost? How does the Indigenous community maintain the link to that past and what does the future of NAIDOC Week look like?

Host, Rhianna Patrick explores the changing landscape of the week with John Paul Janke (Co-Chairman of the National NAIDOC Committee), Ruby Wharton (Community Organiser and student ) and Trent Wallace (First Nations Advisor at Ashurst Law Firm).

This podcast is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.

Read: History of NAIDOC Week: https://bit.ly/3iam75M 

Listen: One discordant note: the 1938 Day of Mourning: https://ab.co/3ESeP0j 

John Paul Janke twitter

Ruby Wharton instagram

Associate Producer: Bianca Hunt

Blak Nation Theme - Cormac Finn

Additional music - artlist.io 

The term Blak was first used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artist, Destiny Deacon in the early 90s. Blak is a term used by some Aboriginal people to reclaim historical, representational, symbolical, stereotypical and romanticised notions of Black or Blackness. This type of spelling may have been appropriated from U.S hip-hop. 

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