Our partnership with the Newcastle Knights helps to provide enriching experiences to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students through events like the Aboriginal Numeracy Day. A fun and engaging event which develops mathematic skills using rugby league …
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2022 Alumni Excellence Award Recipient
“People talk of children as the future, but they are our now”.
Yuin nation woman and the 2022 recipient of the Indigenous Alumni Award, Professor Ngiare Brown is passionate about Aboriginal and Indigenous health, child safety and adolescent development, and building the …
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Croc Festival Performance Mabuiag Island
At the 2001 Croc Festival on Thursday Island, boys from Mabuiag Island State School in the central Torres Strait Islands of Australia, perform traditional dancing, wearing headdresses depicting canoes.
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Croc Festival Performance Bamaga School
Girls from Bamaga, on northern Cape York, perform a dance depicting how the birds got their colours at the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, on Thursday Island in 2001. They finish with the sounds of Souls Longing.
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Croc Festival Performance Thursday Island High School
At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island, students from Thursday Island High School show a strong performance of traditional dancing from Boigu, in the Top Western Torres Strait Islands; Close to the Papua New Guinea coast, there are strong links with the culture of that country. …
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Croc Festival Performance Yam Island School
At the 2001 Croc Festival on Thursday Island, children from the island of Yam (Iama) in the central Torres Strait Islands, perform a mixture of traditional and contemporary dancing, to the sound of "Robinson Crusoe" by Art Of Noise and "Jumpin', Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child.
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Croc Festival Performance Ihwya Youth Group from Thursday Island
At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island, girls and boys from the Ihwya Youth Group from Thursday Island High School perform traditional dances from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia.
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Croc Festival Performance Injinoo State School, Cape York
At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional Aboriginal dances; the use of drums and grass skirts hints at strong influence from the nearby Torres Strait Islands.
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Croc Festival Performance Torres Strait Islander boys from Dauan Island (1)
At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island in 2001, boys from Dauan, a small island just west of Saibai in the Top Western Torres Strait islands, Australia, perform a traditional legend; this is followed by a song discouraging smoking and a traditional dance to a song in the local …
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Croc Festival Performance Warraber Island School
At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island in 2001, children from the island of Warraber (Sue) in the central Torres Strait Islands, perform Christian songs and dances.