Celebrating First Nations Artists living on Yuin Country
Spiral Gallery 47 Church St, Bega, New South Wales, AustraliaCelebrating First Nations artists living on Yuin Country - at Spiral Gallery 15 May to 10 June 2026
Opening event
Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).
The dates for NRW are the same each year: 27 May to 3 June. Look through the calendar to see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.
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Celebrating First Nations artists living on Yuin Country - at Spiral Gallery 15 May to 10 June 2026
Opening event
Carnarvon elders in Yinggarda country
RivMed and Medicare Mental Health Centre are pleased to launch their Sunday BBQ’s 'Nguluway’ for National Reconciliation Week.Sunday BBQ Nguluway,
Elders of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation invite you to join us for Ballerrt Mooroop Community Day.
Morning tea, refreshments, Mayor speech, community handprint banner on display.
National Reconciliation Week Breakfast 2026 - Nipaluna/Hobart Tasmania
Join us for a morning of inspiration and reflection as we share breakfast together, hear from our local Aboriginal community, and livestream the Reconciliation WA virtual broadcast in the theatre. Red Earth Arts Precinct 27 Welcome Road, Karratha Wednesday 27 May 2026 7:30am - 9:00am: Breakfast platters with tea and coffee served 9:00am -10:30am NRW […]
Community breakfast and live stream of the WA Reconciliation Week celebration.
Join your local reconciliation community in Kinjarling | Albany for the NRW Breakfast Broadcast and the much-anticipated Great Southern Pilots’ RAP Launch. Albany 2026, Western Australia’s first bicentenary, is shaped by Menang Elders, the local community and Country. These stories and truths will resonate throughout the statewide broadcast, anchoring our reflections and guiding us toward […]
FREE cuppa for the community
Online Watch Party
Wednesday, 27 May | Livestream from 9:00 AM
Be a Part of the National Reconciliation Week BoorlooBreakfast
Join us at Holy Grounds as we come together to watch the National Reconciliation Week Breakfast broadcast
Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.
Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.
Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.
Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.
Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.
Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer
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