NAIDOC Week 2025

Theme: The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy
Date: 6 - 13 July 2025

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year, NAIDOC Week will be celebrated from 6-13 July, and marks 50 years of the week-long celebrations, and the theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, celebrates achievements of the past and the bright future ahead.

As part of our NAIDOC Week tradition, Wilson Parking has purchased artwork from The Torch, an organisation providing cultural and arts industry support to First Nations people currently in, or recently released from, Victorian prisons. The Torch aims to reduce the rate of reoffending by encouraging the exploration of identity and culture through art. This year, we have purchased two art works, Billy J, from the Wiradjuri people, with artwork titled “DNA to Life” will be featured across selected car parks in NSW Billy explains “Most of my life has been a triangle. This reminds me of how life was, to how I see it now. I went from a triangle life to going places.” We will also have Alisha F from the Wadawurrung people featured with her artwork “Season Change #2” being displayed across selected car parks in VIC, when talking about the representation of her artwork Alisha F explains how her artwork represents hot summer “The colours in this painting share the warmth of summer – the sun and the heat”

 

The National NAIDOC Week Poster for 2025, titled “Ancestral Lines” has been designed by Jeremy Morgan Worrall, a proud Ngarbal/Gomeroi man from Emmaville and Deepwater in northern New South Wales. His family lines include the Wrights, Connors, and Marlows.

Ancestral Lines is a visual representation of the lines and ties that follow a generation and the songs that come with it. 

“When I think of the next generation I think towards my Ancestor Lucy Wright, Enoch Wright, Nonie Wright, all the way from my Nanna Audrie to my Mother Vanessa. 

When I look back at my mob it helps me see towards the future, it gives me hope and strength knowing what my mob have survived through and accomplished amid adversity. 

Each person in the painting depicts a series of lines akin to songlines, that represent what they know, who they were and what they have passed on, the first being that of lore (interpretive), hunting, protecting, and tracking, the second of care, weaving, fishing, and love. 

The third is when we see the two combine into one, and the last two take unfinished elements of them all, to show the passing down of knowledge and care. 

Above them is the essence of the land they live and protect/care for. It is a depiction of my home the cold skies of Tenterfield with the swirling clouds and giant moon, a place around the fire is where the next Generation find their strength, vision and legacy”

You can view Jeremy’s work here

For more details on NAIDOC Week and how you can get involved, please visit: naidoc.org.au.