One of the biggest misconceptions about NAIDOC Week is that it’s simply a celebration. While it is a time to celebrate, it grew from an Aboriginal political movement. Its origins lie in the 1938 Day of Mourning, when Aboriginal leaders gathered on January 26 to protest 150 years of colonisation and draw national attention to discrimination, dispossession and the denial of basic human and civil rights. The Day of Mourning was one of Australia’s first major civil rights protests. It challenged th