I do know that it was written as a collaboration by senior students from Tiwi College on Melville Island, a secondary college which caters for students from both
Tiwi Islands: Melville and Bathurst.
"It took decades of fighting for recognition and several suicides before the Northern Territory's
Tiwi Islands community finally accepted a group of Aboriginal transgender women," ABC reports.
The
Tiwi Islands have been home to the Tiwi people for at least 10,000 years, since melting ice flooded the land connecting the islands to mainland Australia.
Local community members of the
Tiwi Islands, located 126 kilometres northwest of Darwin in Australia, killed a 2-metre long crocodile on Wednesday afternoon based on the belief that the reptile was the one that ate a missing 22-year-old man from Melville Island.
It looks at five communities: Elcho Island, Milingimbi, Gunbalanya, Minjilang and the
Tiwi Islands. The three key findings are, first, that signing is an integral part of Aboriginal culture; second, the Aboriginal people in these communities (and most probably in many other parts of Australia) are bimodal bilinguals (i.e.
Sachin was also presented a stump, made by one of the indigenous tribes in
Tiwi Islands in Australia.
The jobs and skills centre are integral to the project's development and have resulted in ongoing employment for many Indigenous community members from the
Tiwi Islands to Cairns.
It is a multicultural indigenous community, with many languages being spoken here [from across all of Arnhem land,
Tiwi Islands, desert communities, Torres Strait islands].
The six 'missing' birds are the white-breasted white-eye from Norfolk Island, whose disappearance was caused by rat predation; the western Victorian form of the pied currawong and the hooded robin from the
Tiwi Islands, both decimated by changes in fire management practices; the thick-billed grasswren from Mice Springs and the southern form of the star finch that once occurred from Townsville to northern NSW, which were both affected by overgrazing; and the spotted quail-thrush from the Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, which was driven to probable extinction by habitat fragmentation.
DARWIN FESTIVAL: Get to know Australia's Northern Territory--home to the country's largest population of Aboriginal people--with new productions rooted in the cultures of Arnhem Land, Elcho Island and the
Tiwi Islands. In Ngurrumilmarramiriyu (Wrong Skin), a group called the Chooky Dancers, which garnered enough recognition via You-Tube to launch a national tour, has teamed up with theatre director Nigel Jamieson to tell Romeo and Juliet as it might play out within the strict kinship laws that exist on Elcho.
Australia-based Matilda Zircon Limited (Matilda Zircon) has started mining at its
Tiwi Islands Project, north of Darwin.