As part of NAIDOC Week celebrations in the City of Cockburn, the Cockburn Seniors Centre played host to a ball highlighting the importance of indigenous culture to the community.
On Tuesday (July 5), local seniors and elders – and some from as far away as Quairading – gathered for lunch, dancing and entertainment from the Usual Suspects, bringing together indigenous and non-indigenous people, showing cultural diversity is alive and well in teh area.
With roots tied intrinsically to Aboriginal rights, the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee was formed in 1957 to support and promote Aboriginal Sunday and has since evolved into a week-long recognition of Aboriginal culture.
For the past 54 years, NAIDOC celebrations have been held around Australia in July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The NAIDOC Seniors Ball was a joint initiative from the Cities of Cockburn and Melville and comes after the City of Cockburn became WA’s first metropolitan local government to adopt a reconciliation action plan at the start of June.
