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Register your event

Join the Family Matters campaign by holding an event in your workplace, community or home.

Register your event below and access our resources to help you run a successful event.

Event ideas

You could do this at your own work in partnership with a local Aboriginal organisation or community. Host a community morning tea or a BBQ, hold arts and crafts sessions, cultural exchanges, concerts and performances, competitions, sporting days, games and activities, and so much more.

  • Arrange for kids at school or in child care to create their own paintings and artwork about the Family Matters theme and display them for everyone to enjoy
  • Organise an open day or morning tea at work for people to bring their children
  • Arrange for kids to do culturally relevant activities in services, school, child care, or at home
  • Hold a family fun day for foster and kinship carers and their foster children
  • Promote the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in your school or local community through young achiever awards
  • Organise a children’s picnic or activities in a local park
  • Bring Elders, families and their children together in your service or school for storytelling and cultural activities
  • Have a flag raising ceremony with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags
  • Tell your local papers, radio and TV about why your services support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
  • Hold a fete or fundraising activity for children in your community
  • Organise sporting events or competitions for children and young people
  • Invite local leaders, politicians and Elders to spend some time at your service or school during the National Week of Action
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About Us

Family Matters is Australia’s
national campaign to ensure
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children grow up safe
and cared for surrounded by
their own family, community and
culture.
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