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NAIDOC Week (/ ˈ n eɪ d ɒ k / NAY-dok) is an Australian observance lasting from the first Sunday in July until the following Sunday.The acronym NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.
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.
have a 90% school attendance record from 1 July to the date of the Carnival. [ 1 ] The Queensland Aboriginal & Islander Health Council have established a partnership with the Arthur Beetson Foundation, to support the organisation and running of the Qld Murri Carnival so that it is as an alcohol, smoke, drug and sugar-free event to help better ...
Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE DSG (August 1932 [a] – 4 February 2024), also known as Lois O'Donoghue and Lois Smart, was an Australian public administrator and Indigenous rights advocate. She was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) from 1990 to 1996.
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, the annual award is commonly referred to as the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the Telstra Award or Telstra Prize.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the CSIRO have both worked with various groups to produce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seasonal calendars. [2] BOM has produced an interactive map, [ 3 ] and both BOM and the CSIRO have also documented the seasonal calendars of many Aboriginal groups in detail. [ 4 ]
The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1994 to recognise Indigenous Australians ... This page was last edited on 16 November 2024, ...
The 2022 Australian census recorded 167 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages used at home by some 76,978 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. [5] At the time of European colonisation, it is estimated that there were over 250 Aboriginal languages .