50 Cents - Charles III 1st Portrait - 50 Years of NAIDOC

NAIDOC Week — the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture, and achievement — traces its origins to a 1938 Day of Mourning held in Sydney on the 150th anniversary of the First Fleet's arrival. The acronym itself has changed repeatedly over decades as the organizing body evolved, finally settling on its current form in 1991. This coin marks fifty years of the week's modern, nationally recognised format, which was formally established in the mid-1970s under the Whitlam government's broader push for Indigenous policy reform.