Check out SBS and NITV's extensive line-up to celebrate NAIDOC Week this year

This NAIDOC Week, SBS and NITV's content is unapologetically Blak, featuring comedy, family and communities in line with the 2024 NAIDOC theme, Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.

Narelda Jacobs and Steven Oliver host Big Backyard Quiz, an hour-long game show. Credit: NITV

This year's line-up includes extensive multiplatform and multilingual coverage, featuring a variety of new and returning entertainment and current affairs programs for all Australians, exploring the 2024 NAIDOC Week theme, Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.

SBS and NITV’s impressive offering, also available on SBS On Demand, includes Big Backyard Quiz, an hour-long game show hosted by Narelda Jacobs OAM and Steven Oliver, with special guests Barkaa, Dave Woodhead, and comedians Tom Ballard, Nina Oyama, Ivan Aristeguieta and Tegan Higginbotham. Watch on Saturday 13 July at 7.30pm on NITV and SBS to find out who knows the most about the people and history of Australia, while testing your own knowledge.

NITV’s Indigenous current affairs program The Point returns for the year on Tuesday 9 July at 7.30pm for a community-led season to continue tackling the biggest stories on the national agenda. Following the success of the program in 2024 which saw it travel to every state and territory, The Point: Road Trip will again broadcast on-Country in communities across the continent, led by John Paul Janke. The Point: Road Trip elevates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and views with each episode featuring a panel of passionate, local people.

Acclaimed animated children’s series Little J & Big Cuz returns for season 4 on NITV on Monday 8 July at 6.05pm, with voice actors including Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell, Aaron Fa’Aoso, Mark Coles Smith and more. This season, Little J and Big Cuz plan the best birthday party ever, undertake an epic road trip, play superheroes, hunt for honey ants and run a radio station all while learning valuable life lessons along the way.

The SBS Elder-in-Residence Oration returns, presented by Rhoda Roberts AO who this year is joined by special guest, proud Wiradjuri man and renowned journalist Stan Grant. The Oration provides a dedicated space for elevating First Nations perspectives on issues of local and global importance, and an opportunity for exploration, connection and learning for all Australians. In this year’s oration, Grant shares his reflections on the media and his four-decade career. The oration will broadcast on NITV and SBS On Demand on Sunday 7 July at 6.30pm.

Sounds of Solidarity celebrates music from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across all genres, hosted by Naomi Wenitong, Jimblah and comedian Andy Saunders, premiering on Saturday 6 July from 4.30pm. The program will lead into the National NAIDOC Week Awards Ceremony on NITV at 7.30pm. Simulcast with the ABC, this year’s awards are hosted by Rob Collins, Narelda Jacobs OAM and Steph Tisdell.

Tanya Denning-Orman, a proud Birri and Guugu Yimidhirr woman and Director of Indigenous Content at SBS said that this year's NAIDOC Week content is 'unapologetically Blak'.

“At NITV, our important work is possible because of trailblazers whose dedication and commitment forged a path in this industry before us," she said.

 

SBS will share news and information in more than 60 languages across the network. Multilingual and multiplatform coverage through SBS Audio shares First Nations perspectives, celebrates cultures, knowledges and history, and showcases SBS’s unique ability to connect the newest Australians with the world’s oldest living continuous culture.

The SBS Audio offering includes videos, podcasts and articles in Filipino, Vietnamese and Urdu, and a special NAIDOC Week explainer video in Arabic, English, Greek, Mandarin, Punjabi and Vietnamese.

Throughout the week, SBS Food is proud to present NAIDOC themed episodes of The Cook Up with guest host Nornie Bero, premiering weekdays from Monday 8 July at 7pm. Special guests include AFL legend Nicky Winmar, bush food purveyor Sharon Winsor, Indigenous Literacy Foundation CEO Ben Bowen, ABC journalist and social media sensation Tom Forrest, also known as Outback Tom, and more. 

SBS World Movies will host a curated collection of acclaimed Australian cinema telling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ stories from Monday 8 to Friday 12 July at 9.30pm. This includes Australian Rules, The Furnace, The Tracker, Ten Canoes and We Are Still Here.

SBS On Demand will feature a hub dedicated to NAIDOC Week, showcasing all of the network’s content, including documentaries, movies, news and current affairs and more. 

Students around Australia can discover more through SBS Learn’s popular NAIDOC Week education resource, authored by proud Yankunyjatjara, Kokatha and Wirangu woman Shelley Ware. This is the sixth National NAIDOC Week curriculum-aligned education resource developed by Shelley for SBS Learn.

Around Australia, SBS and NITV are partnering with local communities to celebrate NAIDOC Week, with more information available on SBS’s cultural celebrations page.

You can read more about NAIDOC Week here.

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