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Getting the message across
The popular Message Sticks Festival is on again at the Sydney Opera House from 27 March until 1 April. This year the festival is broadening to include music, talks, dance, storytelling and exhibitions as well as its customary film screenings. Popular media personality and creative producer, Rhoda Roberts, is the Artistic Director of Message Sticks […]
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In the big league
A young lady who enjoys organising social events and who loves rugby league has been able to blend these two passions into a career by landing a traineeship with the NRL. Tanika Perry, from the mid-north coast of NSW, is now a trainee in events management with the NRL. She is working with the NRL […]
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Top marks
Two Aboriginal women are proving that all you need is a good idea and the guts to go after it to realise your dreams. They have launched a fashion label called Deadly Divas Clothing that incorporates Aboriginal designs into contemporary clothing and they are proving that Aboriginal style can be “divalicious.” Young Indigenous lawyer Stephanie […]
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Dynamic duo make looking deadly easy
The Deadly Divas are Alisha Nelson and Tahn Donovan and they met while they were both working in the tourism industry and formed their company in March 2011. Alisha is Nyikina Yawuru (Northwest WA) and Tahn is Wardandi (Southwest WA) and they are developing a clothing range that celebrates the depth and beauty of Aboriginal […]
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Jandamarra Cadd
In his art, Jandamarra Cadd seeks the universal expression that “binds us together as humans.” As a result his stunning paintings have found favour with varied audiences across the country and are even on display on the walls of the Attorney General’s Department in Canberra. He combines traditional Aboriginal art with modern portraiture to achieve […]
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Ghenoa Gela: Move It Mob Style
My Name Is… Ghenoa Gela (Move It Mob Style® host dancer) My Job Is… I call myself an independent artist – dancer, musician, actor… My mob Is… My totem on mum’s side is crocodile from the Koedal people (western part of Torres Strait); and my dad’s side totem is the Frigate bird, the Waumer people […]
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Community Roots: Torres Webb
From Erub (Darnley) Island in the Torres Strait), 26-year-old Torres Webb is a young Indigenous leader who, after being away for some years, has returned home and is now planting the seeds of hope back into his community. Torres was in the Indigenous Youth Parliament in 2009 and the Queensland Youth Parliament in 2010. He […]
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