High Comm hosts week for Aborigines and Islanders

THE Australian High Commission in Port Moresby is hosting a special programme of events through celebration of the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee or Naidoc Week.
The programme began last Monday with a ceremony at the High Commission to raise the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags alongside the Australian flag and will end on Thursday.
This year two exceptional ondigenous Australian women have been invited to participate in the programme: Stephanie Harvey, chief executive officer of Indigenous Community Volunteers and rising star in the music industry, Emily Wurramara.
The two-week programme includes the formalisation of a partnership between Papua New Guinea’s National Volunteer Service and Indigenous Community Volunteers.
There will also be a creative collaboration between Wurramara and PNG’s top female artist, Mereani Masani.
Naidoc Week first emerged in the 1920s when Aboriginal groups sought to increase awareness on the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians.