Annual Days of Significance

Our community acknowledges many important days, events and anniversaries every year.

This timeline compiles all the important annual dates that our mob honour and celebrate such as Invasion day and Mabo day. This timeline can help you to learn more about the dates and what events are planned for it.

26 January

Invasion Day

It is a day that honours those who have lost their lives as a result of invasion, remembers how hard our peopl...

March

National Close the Gap Day

Date: 3rd Thursday in March. The aim of the Close the Gap campaign is to achieve health equality by 2030. The...

26 May

National Sorry Day

Sorry Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to Stolen Generations members and to remember those who have passed...

27 May

Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum

In response to this petition the Holt Government introduced the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Bill 196...

May/June

Reconciliation Week

Date: 27 May – 3 June. A time for all Australians to learn about our people and culture as well as our s...

3 June

Mabo Day

In 2002, Aunty Bonita Mabo, Uncle Eddie’s wife, called for Mabo Day to be a national holiday, their son...

1 July

Coming of the Light

It began on the 1st of July 1871 when the Reverend Samuel MacFarlane of the London Missionary Society anchored...

July

NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC celebrates the history, culture and achievements of our people and is celebrated by many non-Indigenous...

4 August

National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children's Day

Children’s Day is organised and promoted by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Ca...

9 August

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

Because of colonisation in various forms, Indigenous Peoples have always fought for the right to practice and...

September

Indigenous Literacy Day

Date: First Wednesday in September. ILD is hosted by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an Australian not-for...

26 January

September