Yirara News - YCTV Episode: 1 Term1 - 2024

Our partnership with the Newcastle Knights helps to provide enriching experiences to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students through events like the Aboriginal Numeracy Day. A fun and engaging event which develops mathematic skills using rugby league …

At the 2001 Croc Festival on Thursday Island, boys from Mabuiag Island State School in the central Torres Strait Islands of Australia, perform traditional dancing, wearing headdresses depicting canoes.

Girls from Bamaga, on northern Cape York, perform a dance depicting how the birds got their colours at the Croc Festival, a festival with participants of indigenous schools in northern Queensland, on Thursday Island in 2001. They finish with the sounds of Souls Longing.

At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island, students from Thursday Island High School show a strong performance of traditional dancing from Boigu, in the Top Western Torres Strait Islands; Close to the Papua New Guinea coast, there are strong links with the culture of that country. …

At the 2001 Croc Festival on Thursday Island, children from the island of Yam (Iama) in the central Torres Strait Islands, perform a mixture of traditional and contemporary dancing, to the sound of "Robinson Crusoe" by Art Of Noise and "Jumpin', Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child.

At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island, girls and boys from the Ihwya Youth Group from Thursday Island High School perform traditional dances from the Torres Strait Islands, Australia.

At the Croc Festival on Thursday Island boys from Injinoo, a community at the top of Cape York in Far North Queensland, Australia, perform traditional Aboriginal dances; the use of drums and grass skirts hints at strong influence from the nearby Torres Strait Islands.