NAIDOC week is being celebrated from the 5th-12th July this year and the theme for this year is “ Honouring Our Elders, Nurturing Our Youth” and this celebration encourages communities to acknowledge Indigenous Elders as leaders and role models for the younger generation.
We are celebrating NAIDOC Week with an amazing Indigenous leader, Professor Larissa Behrendt. Larissa is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman and Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and NSW as a barrister. Larissa is giving a talk at the Museum today as part of our Talks After Noon program and she is discussing ‘What works in Indigenous education?’ and how Aboriginal children could be better engaged in education and what is needed to overcome low Indigenous literacy and numeracy rates.
The image above was taken for our Indigenous Women’s exhibition Yinalung Yenu: women’s journey, an exhibition that shares the stories of six prominent Indigenous women and how Indigenous traditions are finding new forms of expression today. I was fortunate enough to meet and photograph Larissa on a couple of times for this exhibition and this image was produced on one of those occasions.
Larissa’s talk is on level 4 from 2-3pm.
Photography by Paula Bray
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