Â鶹ֱ²¥ is gearing up for the annual NAIDOC Week celebrations (4 -11 July 2010), with a number of events held across campus.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s theme,\u00a0 Unsung Heroes – Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way<\/em>, celebrates the many unsung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander\u2019s who have made huge contributions to Australian society.<\/p>\n There will be a number of events over the week including an official flag raising ceremony and address by MLA Ben Wyatt<\/a>, an informal lunch and a seminar at the\u00a0 National Drug Research Institute<\/a> on the University’s Shenton Park campus,\u00a0 a community event in the foyer of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS)<\/a> with\u00a0 special guest speaker Narelda Jacobs and a celebratory film and story event at the Faculty of <\/strong>Health Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n Curtin has been\u00a0celebrating NAIDOC week since the establishment of CAS\u00a0 in 1983. Over the years the University has expanded its celebrations by partnering with external agencies. This year will be no different, with Centrelink, Hearing Australia, Child\u00a0Support Agency, CRS and Medicare taking part.<\/p>\n CAS Associate Professor Anita Lee Hong says this year’s NAIDOC Week celebration is\u00a0 special as it acknowledges\u00a0 the hard work by many “unseen” heroes.<\/p>\n ‘There are many, many indigenous people who are making a difference to many lives in our community who do not receive or expect recognition for their contribution.\u00a0 It is these people who will be the focus of the nation’s NAIDOC celebrations this year.’<\/p>\n ‘It is our way of saying ‘”thanks” for their efforts during a week of celebration that is the most important on the indigenous calendar.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Â鶹ֱ²¥ is gearing up for the annual NAIDOC Week celebrations (4 -11 July 2010), with a number of events held across campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Jarrad","last_name":"Long","display_name":"Jarrad Long"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 05:43:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}