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Close the Gap Day

20 March 2026 12:00AM
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Beginning of Freedom Ride, 1965

12 February 2026 12:00AM
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National Sorry Day

26 May 2025 12:00AM
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Anniversary of the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report

26 May 2026 12:00AM
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National Reconciliation Week: “All in”

27 May 2026 12:00AM
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Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum

27 May 2026 12:00AM
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Mabo Day

3 June 2026 12:00AM
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National NAIDOC Week

5 July 2026 12:00AM
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National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day

4 August 2026 12:00AM
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Day of Mourning

26 January 2025 12:00AM

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Close the Gap Day

Closing the Gap acknowledges the ongoing strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in sustaining the world’s oldest living cultures. Closing the

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National Sorry Day

Every year on 26 May, National Sorry Day remembers and acknowledges the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from

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Mabo Day

Mabo Day is marked annually on 3 June. It commemorates Mer Island man Eddie Koiki Mabo and his successful efforts to overturn the legal fiction

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National NAIDOC Week

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history,

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Day of Mourning

On 26 January 1938, marking the 150th anniversary of British colonisation, a group of Aboriginal men and women gathered at Australia Hall in Sydney. This

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