This edition of the CSPA Quarterly coincides with NAIDOC Week, which is celebrated in the first week of July each year and provides opportunity to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.

This year’s NAIDOC theme is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up and CSPA acknowledges the families of the 27,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Catholic schools across Australia.  At every opportunity CSPA will advocate to narrow the gap between aspiration and reality and good intent and outcome for these children and young people and joins with others in the hope that the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart can help to change hearts and provide a more secure place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the life of Australia.