News
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Mini Documentary Competition
The Aboriginal Heritage Office (AHO) is inviting students and residents from across Northern Sydney to create a 2-3 minute documentary. The documentary should be on one of the following topics: Aboriginal history, heritage, sites or culture. The AHO is looking for a creative work that brings to life the Aboriginal heritage of the local area.…
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Yarn Up Huge Success
We would like to put out a big thank you to all who attended the AHO’s new Yarn Up series. The evening was a huge success. The topic was about Indigenous bursary and scholarship programs. Three students from Saint Ignatius, Toby, Jonah and Bayley and their teacher Andrew came along and tell us a bit about their…
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YARN UP
The Aboriginal Heritage Office (AHO) would like to invite you to the first in a bimonthly series of ‘Yarn Up’; a community dialogue and discussion forum with guest speakers and a light supper provided. Yarn Up will continue on the Wednesday 21 August at 6pm, with our first topic being ‘Education or Country’. ‘Yarn Up’…
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Yarnupings August 2013
Read the latest issue of Yarnupings, August 2013 The past repeating, Festival feedback, a loot at W.D. Campbell recorder of rock engravings, intern insights, winners of our design comp and more.
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Winners of the Logo Competition Announced.
Over the last three months the AHO has received over one hundred entries for our Logo Competition. We’ve been blown away by the exceptionally high standard of entries. We were flattered by the number and standard of entries in all three categories. Judges had a hard time choosing the three winners. When looking at the…
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Mabo Day
June the 3rd is Mabo Day and commemorates the courageous efforts of Eddie Koiki Mabo to overturn the fiction of terra nullius (land belonging to no-one), the legal concept that Australia and the Torres Strait Islands were not owned by Indigenous peoples because they did not ‘use’ the land in ways Europeans believed constituted some…
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AHO Celebrates Seniors this week
From Monday 13th May to Friday 17th May 2013 AHO welcomes Seniors Groups from The University of the Third Age Over 65’s Walking Group The Probus Club Anglicare Seds