The National NAIDOC Poster Competition is held every year during NAIDOC Week, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (aged 16 years and over) are encouraged to submit artwork representing that year's National NAIDOC Week Theme. 

The NAIDOC Poster Competition has a rich and important history and has become an iconic feature of NAIDOC week celebrations ever since the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) first began producing posters in 1967. The winning NAIDOC posters are not only displayed across Australian cultural institutions (such as the National Museum of Australia) but also online in the NAIDOC Week Poster Gallery, where you can view and download a copy of every poster from 1972 to 2025.  The NAIDOC Poster Gallery not only creates a beautiful timeline of the winning posters throughout the competition's history but also highlights the many significant social changes that have occurred since 1967.

To celebrate NAIDOC 2025, the UQ Life team has created an interactive audio tour featuring five NAIDOC Week posters, each corresponding to significant milestones in UQ's RAP Journey.  You can find out more about The University of Queensland’s vision for reconciliation by reading the Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) (PDF, 6.9MB), UQ's steadfast commitment to building a united, respectful community.

 

Instructions:

  1. Find a poster corflute on your campus
    (There will be one of each design displayed in various locations across St Lucia, Gatton, Herston and Dutton Park campuses).

  2. Scan the QR code on the bottom right corner of the poster.

  3. Click the link below to listen to the matching Audio Track for each poster.

  4. Optional Step: If you post a photo of or with any of our NAIDOC Poster Audio Tour corflutes,  don't forget to tag #UQLife
     



Poster 1: 1979

Poster title: 1979 International Year of the Child. What About Our Kids!
Artist: Not provided
 

 

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Copyright: NAIDOC 197 Poster '1979 International Year of the Child. What About Our Kids!' © The Artist, licenced to the Commonwealth as represented by the National Indigenous Australians Agency available for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Australia – Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).

 

 



Poster 2: 1984

Poster title: Take a Journey of Discovery – To the Land My Mother
Artist: Kaapa Mbijana

 

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Copyright: NAIDOC 1894 Poster 'Take a Journey of Discovery – To the Land My Mother' © Kaapa Mbijana, licenced to the Commonwealth as represented by the National Indigenous Australians Agency available for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Australia – Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).

 

 

 

 



Poster 3: 2001

Poster title: Treaty... let's get it right
Artist: Marika Baumgart

 

Click here to download poster 

Copyright: NAIDOC 2001 Poster 'Treaty... let's get it right' © Marika Baumgart, licenced to the Commonwealth as represented by the National Indigenous Australians Agency available for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Australia – Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).

 

 



Poster 4: 2010

Poster title: Unsung Heroes - Leading Through Example
Artist: Sheree Blackley

 

Click here to download poster 

Copyright: NAIDOC 2010 Poster 'Unsung Heroes - Leading Through Example' © Sheree Blackley, licenced to the Commonwealth as represented by the National Indigenous Australians Agency available for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Australia – Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).

 

 

 



Poster 5: 2011

Poster title: Road to Change
Artist: Matthew Humphries

 

Click here to download poster 

Copyright: NAIDOC 2011 Poster 'Road to Change' © Matthew Humphries, licenced to the Commonwealth as represented by the National Indigenous Australians Agency available for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Australia – Attribution Non-commercial No Derivative Works licence (CC-BY-NC-ND).

 


*Tracks recorded and mixed by UQLife, featuring music from Adobe Stock 
"Calm Positive Background Acoustic Guitar" by ForestMusic, Premium License, Adobe Stock (stock.adobe.com