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NAIDOC Week 2025: Greek Australian Communities and Indigenous Recognition

As Australians across the country come together this week to honour the rich cultures, deep histories and extraordinary contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during NAIDOC Week 2025, it’s worth pausing to reflect: where do our own communities stand?

In a thought-provoking Facebook post, Kostas Karamarkos turns the spotlight on institutional GreekAustralia — both secular and religious — and raises challenging questions about absence, recognition, and our shared responsibilities as migrants on this ancient land.

Is our engagement with Indigenous Australia truly meaningful, or merely symbolic? And what does this say about us, and about the kind of Australia we want to be part of building together?

Find out more about the remaining local events for this year at https://www.naidoc.org.au

KOSTAS KARAMARKOS
Kostas Karamarkos is a Melbourne based journalist and a regular contributor to Ethnos and The Books’ Journal in Athens, Greece, as well as to the Greek Australian newspaper NEOS KOSMOS, the Forum Agora Dialogue in Cyprus and other Greek diaspora digital media. He is also a political commentator of the Tuesday 8am Greek Program on Melbourne’s ethnic community radio station 3ZZZ-92.3FM. In the past, he worked as a radio administrator and radio news editor in Melbourne and in Thessaloniki, Greece, and as a columnist in various Thessaloniki newspapers and Athens digital media. While living in Greece he worked as a Senior Advisor at the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad, in the Department of Foreign Affairs of Greece. He also worked in the Political Office of former Prime Minister of Greece George A. Papandreou.

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