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Bobtales is an Australian animated series of aboriginal dreamtime stories produced in Perth, Western Australia in 1997 and aired in 1998.. Thirteen 5-minute episodes were produced by independent film company Gripping Film and Graphics and the Western Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Western Australia, with funding from Screenwest, Film Australia, and SBS Independent.
As a Larrakia elder, Fejo has been offering Welcome to Country ceremonies in Darwin since 1994. In 2020 he was invited to perform the Welcome to Country when the Australian Football League held its Dreamtime at the 'G match in Darwin. [5] He is the senior elder on campus at Flinders University, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2022 ...
The Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country have become core Australian customs. [31] Some jurisdictions, such as New South Wales, make a welcome (or, failing that, acknowledgement) mandatory [dubious – discuss] at all government-run events. [32] The Victorian Government supports Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country. [33]
Maroochy Barambah during a Welcome to Country & Dreamtime Storytelling ceremony in Brisbane (February 2021) Maroochy Barambah is an Australian Aboriginal mezzo-soprano singer. She is a song-woman, law-woman and elder of the Turrbal people. [1]
Drawing on this important relationship with Country, many First Nations Australians — including Aboriginal Australians across the continent and Torres Strait Islanders alike [13] [34] — identify a sense of responsibility or obligation to care for Country as a central tenet of traditional custodianship.
He began his work in social justice for Indigenous Australians in the Perth region, Nyungar country, at a young age. [ 2 ] He is known for helping to develop the modern Australian welcome to country ritual, [ 3 ] when in 1976 he and Ernie Dingo and created a ceremony to welcome a group of Māori artists who were participating in the Perth ...
Jayapraga Reddy (1947–1996) was an Indian South African writer of short stories, plays, and a memoir. Reddy was born in Durban in 1947, where she would live her whole life. [ 1 ] Reddy was affected by muscular dystrophy , as were two of her brothers, and she used a wheelchair for most of her life.
The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal mythology. It was originally used by Francis Gillen , quickly adopted by his colleague Walter Baldwin Spencer , and thereafter popularised by A. P. Elkin , who later revised his views.