NAIDOC Week 2026

Celebrate NAIDOC Week as we honour the 2026 theme: 50 Years of Deadly.

A group of Aboriginal women sit in a circle around smoke for NAIDOC celebrations in Parramatta Park.

This NAIDOC Week, engage in meaningful First Nations activities, performances and a range of self-guided walks that explore First Nations history and culture with Greater Sydney Parklands.

NAIDOC Week 50 Years of Deadly

NAIDOC and First Nations events with Greater Sydney Parklands

Burramatta NAIDOC.
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Parramatta Park
Enjoy live music and dance performances, try your hand at traditional arts and crafts workshops, shop at market stalls, ...
11 July 2026
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Bush tucker and flowers.
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Centennial Parklands
Join a First Nations guide from Bush to Bowl for a fascinating two-hour guided walk-through Centennial Parklands!
26 July 2026
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Gabrugal Yana

Gabrugal Yana

Gabrugal Yana is a bushwalk in Western Sydney Parklands featuring an audio experience that connects you with Dharug Country and culture, and the story of six Dharug Seasons.
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Gabrugal Yana

First Nations self-guided trails

Learn about the Aboriginal cultural significance of Centennial Parklands through three self-guided walking trails.
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Indigenous park ranger showing tree type to student in bushland

Greater Sydney Parklands' Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan

Explore our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, which launched in June 2026.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Aboriginal artwork

Greater Sydney Parklands acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters and sky upon which the parklands are located and pays respect to the Elders of these lands – past, present and emerging.

We recognise First Nations peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to place and their rich contribution to society. We acknowledge the rights and interests of First Nations peoples to be involved in the ongoing management of these traditional lands. We work in a respectful manner with Traditional Custodians, local Aboriginal land councils and the First Nations communities of Greater Sydney.

We support their custodianship of the natural and cultural heritage of parklands so that these are places where First Nations peoples feel socially, culturally and economically included.

Artwork credited to Dennis Golding, Jessica Tobin and Dakota Campbell.