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The inaugural National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sports Awards were held at Adelaide's Hilton International Hotel on 6 September 1986. [1] The Awards were established to pay tribute to the contribution of Aboriginal men and women to Australian and international sport.
This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.
The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1994 to recognise Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) that have achieved at the highest level of their chosen sport.
Sports are popular among Torres Strait Islanders and the community has many sporting stars in Australian and international sports. Sporting events bring together people from across the different islands and help to connect the Torres Strait with mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea.
These sports were not absorbed into European sports, [11] and sporting traditions began to fade during the same time when other Indigenous traditions were fading. [10] The Australian Sports Commission has taken steps to try to preserve knowledge about Indigenous sporting traditions. [10] In 1868, an all-Australian Aboriginal team toured England ...
The Indigenous Australian rugby league team (also known as the Indigenous All Stars [1] or Indigenous Dreamtime [2] team) is a rugby league football team that represents Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. The team was first formed in 1973 and currently plays in an annual All Stars Match against a National Rugby League NRL All ...
The Deadlys Awards honor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders achievements in sports, music, entertainment and community. In addition to receiving the Deadlys Award, Mills was named the 2006 Australia Basketball Player of the Year and the National Sportsperson of the Year by the NAIDOC .
National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week NITV News Update , with programming including other news and current affairs programmes, sports coverage, entertainment ...