NRW Events Calendar 2025

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.

Hosting your own NRW event? Head to the Events page to add it to the calendar.

Please note: the events on this calendar are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.

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Reconciliation Week: First Contacts Virtual Event

Join us for our free online learning event for Reconciliation Week 2025. Your students will learn about first contacts between Aboriginal peoples and colonists that arrived as part of the First Fleet. We will examine a range of historical sources, including artworks and Aboriginal cultural objects in order to explore the impact of these new […]

Mildura Rural City Council NRW Event

Powerhouse place hugh king drive, mildura, Victoria, Australia

An event shared by a collaboration of different Organisations to provide an event to have Guest Speakers, Dinner Provided, Cultural activities for Community to come together. All Welcome

Ngalu Warrawi Marri We Stand Strong

Australian Museum 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Come together for a free after-hours event at the Australian Museum featuring live music, workshops, tours and performances.

Aunty Edna Watson OAM From Rejection to Recognition

Hornsby Council Library 28-44 George St, Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia

Growing up Aboriginal in Hornsby.
The story of Aunty Edna Watson OAM- From rejection to recognition.
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Reconciliation Week Film Club

Bridgetown Hub Cnr Steere and Roe St, Bridgetown / Geegeelup, Western Australia, Australia

Join Bridgetown Hub & Gulyara for a screening of the film Mad Bastards Followed by a group discussion Mad Bastards follows TJ as he travels across northwestern Australia to the Kimberley region to track down his son Bullet. Meanwhile in community Uncle Tex is trying to reduce violence and crime.

Exploring Music from the Torres Strait

Dr. Sue Lane and Dujon Niue present a free professional development webinar on music-making and cultural protocols in the classroom.

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Paul House with gum leaves and smoke
Paul Girrawah House

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

Acknowledgement of Country

Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing  connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.

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