NRW Events Calendar 2024

Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a whole range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).

Check out the events below and see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.

The dates for NRW are the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.

Please note: the events posted below are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.

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Semaphore Reconciliation Brunch

Heart of Semaphore Cafe 103 Semaphore Rd, Semaphore, South Australia, Australia

Hear from Deb Moyle, member of SA's First Nations Voice. Discuss next steps for Reconciliation.

Reconciliation Week Picnic at Parc Menai

Parc Menai Menai Road, Menai, New South Wales, Australia

A day to commemorate the successful 1967 referendum with a joyous celebration of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture

Creative Workshops @ National Museum of Australia

National Museum of Australia Lawson Crescent, ACTON, ACT, Australia

Join senior First Nations artists from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait for a hands-on creative workshop.

Bird in Hand Winery | Kaurna Smoking Ceremony

Bird in Hand 150 Pfeiffer Road, Woodside, South Australia, Australia

Bird in Hand Welcomes Kaurna Elder, Uncle Mickey O'Brien, to perform a traditional Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony.

Sweet Country CVIFF

LaTrobe Arts Institue 121 View Street, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival 2024

Film Screening Always Was Always Will be

WA Museum Boola Bardip Hackett Hall Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

As Reconciliation Week comes to a close, join us for a screening of the documentary Always Was, Always Will be.

Combat Racism and Support First Nations Communities

Redfern Community Centre 29-53 Hugo St, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia

Guest speaker: Dr Georgia Durmush is a Senior lecturer in Sociology and Youth Work in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University.

The Last Daughter Film Screenings – Mount Gambier

The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre 1 Bay Road, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia

Join a free community screening of The Last Daughter at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre

Whose land is it anyway?

South Melbourne Temperance Hall 199 – 207 Napier Street, South Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Panel discussion investigating Crown Land, history, Truth Telling, Treaty, community, heritage management and reconciliation.

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Paul House with gum leaves and smoke
Paul Girrawah House

Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.

Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.

Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.

Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.  

Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer

Acknowledgement of Country

Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing  connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.

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