10,000 PEOPLE AT NAIDOC CELEBRATIONS IN ADELAIDE

Written by: Ned K. on 11 July 2026

(NAIDOC SA Facebook page)

On Friday 10 July, about 10,000 people attended the annual NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) festival and street demonstration in Adelaide. The march through the city to steps of Parliament House was led by First Nations people carrying two banners - "Always Was, Always Will Be Kaurna Land" and "Black Lives Matter".

Land Rights Now was a popular chant and all First Nations speakers highlighted the contributions of First Nations people to life in Australia over the fifty years since the first NAIDOC march in Adelaide and the continuation of this trend for the next 50 years. 

Speakers also emphasised that peace loving people from all cultures from all over the world are welcome to the land of the Kaurna people on whose land the British colonial city named Adelaide was established. Their desire to unite with non-Indigenous people living in Australia and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds was a stark contrast to Pauline Hanson's One Nation who demand a monocultural Australia, a euphemism for an Australia of "pure" white Anglo Saxon culture.

The festive atmosphere and diversity of the 10,000 people at the NAIDOC event in Adelaide was an example of people power in action.

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