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Thousands of people flocked to the Tiwi Islands over the weekend to cheer on local teams at the islands' biggest event of the year, the revered annual footy grand final.
Visiting the Tiwi Islands has the discomforting effect of moving around in a historical zoo. The islands are haunted by Church, the Coopers, and civilizational predations.
The Tiwi Islands Grand Final has drawn thousands of locals and tourists to Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island, north of Darwin, for a full-throated celebration of art, culture and Australian Rules ...
It’s the afternoon of the 2012 Tiwi Islands Football League grand final, and you couldn’t buy a smile on the small warm-up fields. Men in football jerseys are jumping, pacing, stretching and having a ...
This year, the Tiwi Cultural Festival is set to run on the same weekend as the Tiwi Islands Football League Grand Final, in what is shaping up to be huge weekend for Bathurst Island. Now in its ...
At the 2025 National Indigenous Fashion Awards, Clair Helen Parker receives the top honour of fashion designer of the year, ...
The 2700 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, off northern Australia. In Portrait of a People, Heide Smith combines images of the past and a troubled present that tell a painful ...
Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...
TIWI ISLANDS, Australia—An indigenous clan leader on these islands off northern Australia stretched his arms and stomped his feet as the chants of other Tiwi people filled the forest.
The 60km Tiwi Islands connection will come via a branching unit off Vocus' $139 million 2,100km fibre-optic North West Cable System (NWCS), which went live in September 2016.
Santos was told by a court on Wednesday to halt its pipeline project around 70 kilometers north of the Tiwi Islands pending a final ruling, although it was allowed to begin laying gas pipelines ...