Arche Health - Aboriginal Health Team

12/06/2026

Celebrate NAIDOC with us 🖤💛❤ !!!

Arche Aboriginal Health Team proudly celebrates National NAIDOC Week walking together with our community.

We invite you to the Mirrabooka NAIDOC Event on Thursday, 9 July as we celebrate 50 years of Deadly. Featuring a packed program including Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony, live music, cultural performances, interactive activities and as always free tucker. There will be something for all ages to enjoy and we would love to see you there.

This year's event will see performances from an amazing lineup of artists including Pipeline, Boox Kid, Corroboree for Life, Aliwah, Kayps, Lilly Gogos, Tameerah, and MONGEEYA.

📆 Date: Thursday 9 July 2026
⏰Time: 10.00am – 2.30pm
🏫 Venue: Stirling Leisure Centres – Mirrabooka, 38 Ashbury Crescent Mirrabooka

This FREE event is presented by the Mirrabooka NAIDOC Committee and is proudly alcohol and other drug free.

For more information about the event you can contact the City of Stirling’s Community Partnerships team on 9205 8555 or email [email protected]

If you would like to find out more about NAIDOC Week please visit https://www.naidoc.org.au/

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08/06/2026

🖤💛❤️ ABORIGINAL JUSTICE OPEN DAY ❤️💛🖤

Check out the Aboriginal Justice Open Days at Mirabooka and Northbridge coming up - all details below.

There’ll be a range of services available in one place to help with driver’s licences, photo ID, birth certificates, fines, Centrelink support and more.

This is a great opportunity to have a yarn, ask questions and get support with important documents and services.

📍 Mirrabooka - 10 & 11 June, 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
📍 Northbridge - 24 June, 9.00 am - 2.00 pm
📍 Northbridge - 25 June, 9.00 am - 2.30 pm

Everyone is welcome. Please bring along any ID or important documents you may have to help make the process easier 😊

03/06/2026

🖤💛❤️ MABO DAY – 3 JUNE ❤️💛🖤

Today we recognise and celebrate Mabo Day — a significant day that honours the strength, courage and legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo and all those who fought for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights to land and culture.

Mabo Day marks the historic Mabo decision, which recognised Native Title and acknowledged the enduring connection First Nations peoples have to Country.

Today is a time to reflect, learn, and celebrate culture, truth and the continuing journey toward recognition and respect.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land 🖤💛❤️

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01/06/2026

🖤💛❤️ MAKURU – Noongar Season of Fertility

As we move into Makuru, we welcome the cold rains and the season of renewal on Noongar Boodja. Makuru is a time when Country is nourished, waterways fill, and animals begin preparing for new life. It reminds us to slow down, stay connected, and appreciate the beauty and strength that comes with the changing season. 🌧️🌿

28/05/2026

🖤💛❤️ NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK ❤️💛🖤

We are proud to see one of our families sharing their journey through the Respiratory Outreach Clinic delivered in partnership with Respiratory Care WA.

Hearing Corrine’s story reminds us how important culturally safe care is for our mob — feeling heard, supported, and comfortable can make all the difference for our families.

Thank you to Respiratory Care WA for working alongside our Aboriginal Health Team to support better health outcomes for First Nations families across WA. 🖤💛❤️

This National Reconciliation Week, the theme “All In” reminds us that better health outcomes begin with listening, trust, and culturally safe care. 🖤💛❤️

For Ballardong Noongar siblings Kayden and Maddie, respiratory outreach through Arche Health - Aboriginal Health Team and Respiratory Care WA gave their family the support and answers they had been missing for years, in a place where they felt heard.

“Having care in a place where we felt comfortable and heard made a huge difference.” — Corrine, Ballardong Noongar Mum

Together, we’re helping break down barriers to culturally safe respiratory care for First Nations families across WA.

Learn more about how respiratory outreach is supporting First Nations families across WA and read Corrine's full story below 👇
https://bit.ly/4dJCaU8

28/05/2026

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27/05/2026

⚫🟡🔴 National Reconciliation Week 2026 ⚫🟡🔴

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 is "All In", a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.

All In makes clear that reconciliation is not a spectator sport and that all of us must step away from the sidelines and take action to make change.

The theme also reminds us that reconciliation and advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights isn’t a passive activity, and it is not solely the responsibility of First Nations people, who have carried the weight of championing, explaining and acting for far too long.

Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us.

26/05/2026

Warning: This image and video link may contain images/voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons.

Today is National Sorry Day, a day when we pause to reflect on the grief, trauma, and loss of culture suffered by the Stolen Generation and their families.

“Children removed were denied their language and their culture.”

It is estimated that at least 1 in 10, up to 1 in 3, children were removed from their communities. The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Family found that there is not one Aboriginal community in Australia today that the separation policy has not scarred – if not in this generation, then in former generations.

“This is not ancient history. It is about today’s reality of suffering.”

After hearing and reading over 500 stories, the Commission’s findings were published in the Bringing Them Home report in April 1997. It detailed the laws, policies and practices that allowed children to be taken from their families - and included many case studies that contest the claim made by many non-Indigenous Australians that the removal of children was 'in their own interests'.

To help people understand how the assimilation policy caused not just first-hand, but intergenerational trauma, this powerful documentary was produced:
🎥 https://youtu.be/Sl82VMuuKI0?si=epwFp1ysf1CWSdGw
Please watch and share it this National Sorry Day.

📷Image: Moore River Native Settlement ca 1930 (State Library of Western Australia item 5288D/20)
🎥Video: Australian Human Rights Commission