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Indigenous Round Celebrating NAIDOC Week
2025 DATES TBC
The theme of National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week in 2024 was “Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud”.
Over two weekends commencing Friday 19th July 2024, Yanchep Districts Junior Football Club is extremely proud to be celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during our NAIDOC Indigenous Round.
Auskickers will be celebrating on Saturday 13th July 2024. In 2022, we celebrated with a Welcome to Whadjuk Noongar Country and Smoking Ceremony followed by performances from the very talented local indigenous dance groups, Yanchep Strong & Deadly Koolangka.
A smoking ceremony is an ancient custom that has been used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for tens of thousands of years. The smoke assists in cleansing the area, cleansing the people of bad spirits and it promotes protection and wellbeing to visitors on Whadjuk Noongar country.
The Auskickers collaborated with one of our wonderful parents, Bree Kucera, to complete a sand mural, which was on display for the remainder of the weekend.
The mural fit with the 2022 NAIDOC week theme – “Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!” This theme shared an important message and called for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and protect all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.
Each year, in addition to a range of great activities, we also run our annual Auskick NAIDOC Round Colouring-In Competition. This year, there are 3 NAIDOC inspired footballs, kindly decorated by some of our very own Indigenous families, to be won!
DESIGN YOUR CLUB NAIDOC JUMPER COMPETITION 2023
This competition was made possible through the West Australian Football Commission and West Australian Country Football League’s partnership with Rio Tinto, WA Football’s NAIDOC Round Partner. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders within regional Western Australia were invited to design a NAIDOC Round jumper for their nominated Football Club.
Winning designs were announced during NAIDOC Week 2023, with each design reproduced as one set of jumpers for the nominated Football Club and one jumper for the entrant to keep.
We are so proud of two of our very own Red Hawks for their winning designs in Rio Tinto’s 2023 Design Your Club NAIDOC Jumper Competition!! 
A huge congratulations to Demas and Lily on their winning designs!! These amazing designs have been reproduced into two new sets of jumpers for our athletes to enjoy in future years! We were so excited to wear these designs for the first time in 2024!
