Former professional soccer player and teacher, Belinda Dawney visited Tonga in June 2018. Belinda's official program engaged with the Tongan soccer and touch football communities, school students, and local artists.

Venessa Curnow, Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Unit at the Cairns Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, visited Nauru in August as part of DFAT's NAIDOC Speaker Series, "Because of Her, We Can".

Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali missions hosted Julie-ann Lambourne, Torres Strait Islander business leader and CEO of Cairns-based enVizion Group, for a series of meetings, workshops and speaking engagements in July 2018.

Ella Havelka is the first Indigenous Australian ballerina to join the Australian Ballet Company.

The Australian High Commission in PNG, supported visits from Indigenous Australian musician, Emily Wurramara and Leila Gurruwiwi, media commentator, television show producer and panel member of NITV's The Marngrook Footy Show.

Pretoria Post hosted the first stop of Lee-Ann's regional tour. The visit focussed on Indigenous engagement using art. Lee-Ann gave a keynote address at the Inaugural Arts and Health Summit, held in Bloemfontein.

Ghana was Lee-Ann's second stop of the tour; her visit coincided with the creation of the Ghanaian Council for the Arts, providing a timely opportunity for her to highlight the potential economic and social benefits of a national arts council.

Lee-Ann's final stop in Egypt reinforced the message of NAIDOC Week and contemporary Australia to hundreds of people, from Nubian musicians and entrepreneurs in the far South, to Cairo-based artists, archaeologists and students, to refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Syria, Sudan and South Sudan.

The Australian Embassy in Timor-Leste celebrated NAIDOC Speaker Series 'Because of Her, We Can' by hosting a visit from the renowned Tjanpi Desert Weavers of Central Australia in July 2018.