NAIDOC Week 2021 Flag Raising

Join us at Fed Square to celebrate First Nations knowledges and culture and to help affirm our commitment to Heal Country this NAIDOC Week.

This year’s NAIDOC Week theme is ‘Heal Country’. The theme invites us all to reflect on – and take action towards – seeking greater protections for our lands, waters, Indigenous sacred sites and First Nations cultural heritage.

It reminds us that for thousands of generations our First Nations people lived in harmony with Country: a concept that means more than simply ‘land on which we stand’. It reminds us that as a nation we can continue to learn from the great wealth of Indigenous knowledges about how we can work with, and not against, Country – to see the gift of land and water as not simply resources to be used up, but as sustaining us and being fundamentally intertwined with our own physical, cultural and spiritual survival – and to understand that our own survival depends on our success in protecting Country from exploitation, desecration and destruction.

NAIDOC 2021 invites us all to embrace First Nations’ cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as part of Australia’s national heritage.

Please join us here for the official VIC NAIDOC week flag raising livestream at 9.30am on Monday July 5. You are also welcome to attend in person and pay your respects in the Main Square from 9.15am.

(Above: press the play button to start the live stream)