National NAIDOC Week 2025

This year’s NAIDOC Week marks a powerful milestone of 50 years in honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience. The 2025 theme, "The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy," celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the legacy of our Ancestors. National NAIDOC Week 2025 will be held from Sunday 6 July to Sunday the 13 July 2025. Our partnership with the National NAIDOC Committee will see the National NAIDOC Week Posters distributed to customers from all Kmart, K hub and Target stores across the Country from the 16th June 2025.

National NAIDOC Week Posters

This year's National NAIDOC Week Poster features artwork by Jeremy Worral, a proud Ngarbal/Gomeroii from Emmaville Deepwater NSW. The design is called Ancestral Lines and is a visual representation of the lines and ties that follow a generation and the songs that come with it. Jeremy shares “When I think of the next generation I think towards my Ancestor Lucy Wright, Enoch Wright, Nonie Wright, all the way from my Nanna Audrie to my Mother Vanessa. When I look back at my mob it helps me see towards the future, it gives me hope and strength knowing what my mob have survived through and accomplished amid adversity. Each person in the painting depicts a series of lines akin to songlines, that represent what they know, who they were and what they have passed on, the First being that of lore (interpretive), hunting, protecting, and tracking, the second of care, weaving, fishing, and love. The third is when we see the two combine into one, and the last two take unfinished elements of them all, to show the passing down of knowledge and care. Above them is the essence of the land they live and protect/care for. It is a depiction of my home the cold skies of Tenterfield with the swirling clouds and giant moon, a place around the fire is where the next Generation find their strength, vision and legacy”

This year’s National artwork by Jeremy Worral will also be on display in the windows of our Kmart and K hub Deadly stores in celebration of NAIDOC Week. To read more about our Deadly Stores click here

The 2025 Kmart team member art initiative continued as a key element of our celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture with team members submitting their designs and story to share what NAIDOC means to them.

In the fourth year of our NAIDOC Week Art initiative, we had some amazing submissions from our First Nations team members.

To celebrate NAIDOC and our ongoing support of First Nations Culture the Kmart Deadly Stores network will feature window displays of the Official NAIDOC Week poster artwork, alongside our very own team member artwork and story.

This year we celebrate Kya, a proud Kamilaroi from our Kmart Gladstone Store.

Kya’s "Echoes of our Elders" artwork beautifully represents the ongoing cultural knowledge passed down from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders.

Each layered “echo” symbolises a part of cultural life – from family and tradition, to hunting and spirituality. At the heart of the piece is the importance of learning from Elders to create a strong, proud future. Kya says her piece captures the spirit of culture being passed through generations.