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The Aboriginal Sports Foundation was created in 1969, [2] and The National Aboriginal Sports Awards were first given in 1986. [6] At the 1986 National Aborigines' Day, more than 70 members of the Australian Indigenous community had their sporting achievements recognised.
Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866. 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 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.
Australian Aboriginal domestic scene depicting traditional recreation, including one child kicking the ball, with the object and caption being to "never let the ball hit the ground". (From William Blandowski's Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen , 1857, (Haddon Library, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)
In 1990, the Australian Sports Drug Agency Act 1990 was passed, which took control of the doping tests away from the Australian Sports Commission and put it into the hands of an independent doping control agency as of 17 February 1991. [64] Rugby league in the 90s was dominated by structural problems resulting in the Super League war. Following ...
The North American Indigenous Games is a multi-sport event involving indigenous North American athletes staged intermittently since 1990. The games are governed by the North American Indigenous Games Council, a 26-member council of representatives from 13 provinces and territories in Canada and 13 regions in the United States.
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not-for-profit organisations eg: Miromaa Aboriginal Language and Technology Centre; educational and research institutions; education/training institutions; arts companies eg: dance, theatre eg: Bangarra Dance Theatre; venues; cultural festivals; sports clubs eg: Fitzroy Stars Football Club; Artist awards; written reports produced by government ...