🖤💛❤️ NAIDOC Week 2025: The Next Generation 💚🤍💙
We celebrate young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — carrying the strength of their ancestors, the vision to lead with purpose, and the legacy of thousands of years of culture, resistance and excellence. #NAIDOC2025
🙌 Want to support young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the legal sector?
Learn about our First Nations Cadetship and RRR Internship Programs:
🔗 clcnsw.org.au/first-nations-…
#NAIDOC2025 #BlakLoudProud
🗓️ Show your support this NAIDOC Week — find a local event near you and turn up:
🔗 naidoc.org.au/local-events/l…
#TheNextGeneration #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
Big Yarn Up 🖤💛❤️ A full-day gathering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CLC staff on 22 July on Birpai Country, Port Macquarie. Aunty Julie Perkins opens the day with a keynote on Aboriginal worker rights. 💵 Subsidies available. Find out more: clcnsw.org.au/rrr-summit
“This Budget was a missed opportunity to fund services that are proven to reduce harm, improve safety and strengthen communities." - Sarah Marland, Executive Director, Community Legal Centres NSW
Read our full statement on the NSW budget here: bit.ly/3FTZD8p
"The govt knows that these are the things that we’ve been telling people for years, for centuries." This powerful interview with our colleague Bobbi Murray follows a submission by First Nations community legal workers to the Senate Inquiry on Measuring Outcomes. #CloseTheGap
It’s #NationalReconciliationWeek — a time to reflect on the ongoing impacts of colonisation in so-called Australia. Colonisation isn’t just history — it’s still happening. This week is a call to listen, learn, and act in solidarity with First Nations peoples. #FirstNationsJustice
#NRW2025 marks two key milestones in the fight for First Nations justice:
🔹 The 1967 referendum, recognising First Nations peoples in the Census
🔹 The 1992 Mabo decision, which overturned the lie of terra nullius
Learn more: nma.gov.au/defining-moments/…
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
“We’re not negotiating. This is a call to action.”
First Nations legal workers urge the new Labor Govt to finally end the Stolen Generations with real structural change—not more reports.
📄 Read their truth-telling doc: clcs.org.au/wp-content/uploa…
#FirstNationsJustice

ALT Aboriginal flag and text reading: First Nations community legal workers speak on outcomes for First Nations communities: "Decisions about the safety of First Nations children should be made by a collective group of senior, respected Edlers and senior people from the local First Nations community. These people should be very informed of policy, processes, as well as cultural and kinship knowledge. Elders in the community know the history of the families, know about the wider kinship network, and are in a position to identify people in the wider kinship network who may be able to become a carer." Quote attributed to Florence Onus, Community Development Worker and Cultural Advisor, Birrigubba, Bidjara, Kairi and Jagalingu Descendent'.
Planning an event or looking to show your support?
IDAHOBIT has free resources to help you make an impact:
📘 Digital Toolkit
🗓️ Event Hosting Guides
📢 Posters, banners & social media assets
🔗 idahobit.org.au/get-started/
The 2025 theme is "The Power of Communities" — a reminder that collective action is key to advancing LGBTQIA+ rights and building inclusive spaces. 💪🏽🏳️⚧️ #ThePowerOfCommunities
🌈 This Saturday 17 May is IDAHOBIT — the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex Discrimination & Transphobia. It marks the day in 1990 when homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. #IDAHOBIT2025 idahobit.org.au/news/the-his…
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Australia’s support for Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation and blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza must end.
Read our full statement with @theACIJ : hrlc.org.au/news/statement-b…
🚨 Over 5,500 hectares of native bushland—home to endangered species like the malleefowl—have been illegally cleared in south-west NSW since 2021, warns @AusConservation. Experts say our laws aren't keeping up.
🔗 abc.net.au/news/2025-05-04/m…
#EnvironmentalJustice #EndangeredSpecies
10-24 year olds represent 1/4 of the homeless population in Australia. This is unacceptable in one of the world’s wealthiest nations. Sign the petition to end youth homelessness or donate now. #YHMD25 – 16.04.25 yhmd.org.au #YouthHomelessness #YouthHomelessnessMatters
We are almost one month away from the ban on No Grounds Evictions coming into effect, but the NSW Tenants' Union fear that renters face heightened risk of eviction in the meantime.
Read more: bit.ly/4cw8Ter
A complaint submitted to the UN by First Nations experts details "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of children by criminal legal systems."
We hope this complaint is a step toward necessary reform.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5y2ex7d8







