Year 8 students Blaze, Edward, Jaxon, Nick and Lamar were enjoying NAIDOC at Kingaroy State High School
July 22, 2026
Students from Kingaroy State School and Kingaroy State High School joined together to celebrate “50 Years Of Deadly” on Tuesday.
The special NAIDOC celebration in the high school grounds featured dancing, activities, stalls and lots of fun.
A highlight was several dancing performances, guided by Kingaroy State High School’s Toni Phillips-Petersen, Amy Stevens and Matt Gale, in a temporary bora ring.
Elders from Cherbourg and Kingaroy were also invited to enjoy the day’s activities.
A special “community walkway” into the NAIDOC area was decorated with photographs of former First Nations residents.
In the Kingaroy State High School library, the NAIDOC posters from former celebrations were on display, recreated by students from the two Kingaroy schools.
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Kingaroy State High School’s Amy Stevens, back at left, Matt Gale, back at right, and Toni Phillips-Petersen, fourth from left, with the keen troupe of dancersCherbourg Elders Grace Bond and Jeanette Brown with Year 10 student Israel Tyore and Kingaroy State High School’s Matt GaleAunty Gloria Bell, from Murgon, with Aunty Jocelyn and Uncle Robert Clancy, from KingaroyEdith Tom, centre, from Kingaroy, was guiding the students in a Torres Strait Islander danceStudents were interacting with the performanceChrissy Beresford and Tayla Grice-Andrews, from Cherbourg Council’s Containers For Change depot in Kingaroy were spreading the recycling messageKingaroy Ambulance Station also had a display ..; from left, Maud Alberts, Renae Birch, Justin Teece and Julia LoganVarious creative activities were occurring in marquees around the groundKSHS library aide Stacey Roon and teacher librarian Judy Conomos with some of the recreated NAIDOC annual posters painted by students from Kingaroy State and State High schools
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Aunty Jeanette Brown, from Cherbourg, shared this verse she wrote which celebrates many of the NAIDOC themes over the years:
