This year’s NAIDOC theme, For Our Elders reminds us that in working and advocating for better health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities, we stand on the shoulders of giants. We walk the pathways our Elders have paved for us through generations of advocacy and activism. It is their strength, resilience and resonance that carries us forward.
To mark NAIDOC this year we invite all staff and students to join us on Tuesday 11 July for morning tea in the breakout space and then again at 12 noon in the lecture theatre where we will be presenting a screening of the newly released documentary The Last Daughter: healing is hidden in the past. In this 87-minute film starring and co-directed by Wiradjuri woman Brenda Matthews, Brenda tells her story of family separation. On the film’s website, Brenda describes the film this way:
“We’re a nation of dual identity. Blackfellas and Whitefellas. I’m on a quest to help bring our two worlds together…The Last Daughter isn’t about a change of plans, it’s about a change of heart… We can find a place to belong, together”.
