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The Rainforest Cup Indigenous Cricket Carnival will be held from 31 October - 1 November 2009. The twenty/20 competition will be held at the Tully... 
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| | WOMEN IN SPORT - LOCKER ROOM
Indigenous Sport Queensland Patron Kelly McKellar is a guest speaker at the Loganholme Women in Sport Locker Room, held by the Queensland Government...
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| | INDIGENOUS SPORT AND RECREATION POSITIONS
PCYC is advertising 19 sport and recreation positions in communities across the State. They are:
Community Sport and Recreation Coordinator...
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| | FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR TRAINING OF SPORT OFFICIALS AND REFEREES
Nintiringanyi Sport and Recreation Program are looking for individuals who want to train and/or study to become a sporting official, referee or...
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| | TERRI-ANN BREAKS RECORDS
12-year-old Terri-Ann Cain was recently selected to represent Queensland in track and field at the Pacific Schools Games. She returned from the meet...
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| | QUEENSLAND IMPARJA CUP SIDE NAMED
Former Queensland Country allrounder Keith Charles will make a return to the Queensland Imparja Cup squad for the 2008-09 national indigenous titles...
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| | ALEX SHOWS PROMISE
Ten year old Alex Harrison broke the West Bundaberg Little Athletics U11 record for the 70m sprint on last week, in a time of 9.2 seconds. The...
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| | CQID INDIGENOUS RECONCILIATION CARNIVAL
Dates
Saturday, 24th January, 2009 – Sunday, 25th January, 2009. Australia Day Weekend.
Venue
Saleyards Park, Rockhampton...
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| | HERBERTON INDIGENOUS RUGBY PLAYERS A LINK IN THE GAME’S HISTORY
(Story from ABC Far North Queensland)
Pictures of indigenous rugby league players from Herberton could help give insight into the role of...
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| | CRICKET ALL*STAR FAN DAY AND EDDIE GILBERT STATUE UNVEILING
A statue of Indigenous cricketer Eddie Gilbert is unveiled by ISQ President Wayne Coolwell and ICACQ Chairperson Larry Budd during the Cricket...
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| | STRAIGHT TALK 2009
Oxfam Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s summit.
Oxfam Australia is pleased to announce that applications for Straight...
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| | HOCKEY QUEENSLAND PRESENTS HOCKEY ART TO ISQ PRESIDENT
At the Oz Minerals Queensland Indigenous Sports Awards in Cairns earlier this month Hockey Queensland and Indigenous artist Kevin Edmonstone...
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| | COX TAKES OUT EDDIE GILBERT MEDAL
Rohanee Cox has been named as the winner of the prestigious 2008 Eddie Gilbert Medal after taking out the Regional Award for North Queensland. She...
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| | BATS FIRE IN TWENTY20
Rain Forest Cup cricket brought out the big shots at the weekend, with six Far Northern teams converging on Tully's Country Club and Aerodrome Ovals.
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| | UPDATED NOMINEE PROFILES AVAILABLE
Please click on the links below for updated profiles of Eddie Gilbert Medal and Leigh Ann Goodwin Youth Award nominees.
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| | ISQ ANNOUNCES SHORT LIST FOR EDDIE GILBERT MEDAL
A start studded line up of Indigenous talent has made the short list for the second annual Indigenous Sport Queensland Awards to be held in Cairns on...
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| | ISQ ANNOUNCES SHORT LIST FOR LEIGH ANN GOODWIN YOUTH AWARD
Over 40 nominations have been received by ISQ for the Leigh Ann Goodwin Youth Award.
The winner will be announced at the second annual Indigenous...
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| | DEADLYS 2008 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Winners of the 14th annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander awards have been announced at a spectacular star-studded ceremony held at the Sydney...
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| | OZ MINERALS QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS SPORTS AWARDS - PURCHASE TICKETS
Tickets to the Oz Minerals Queensland Indigenous Sports Awards, to be held on 7 November 2008 at the Sofitel Reef Casino in Cairns, can be purchased...
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| | ABORIGINAL BOWLER HONOURED AT LAST
Eddie Gilbert featured in an article in the Independant Newspaper in London on 30 September 2008. The article was written by Sydney based...
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| | RAINFOREST CUP DRAW RELEASED
The draw for this year's Rainforest Cup Indigenous Cricket Carnival has been released.
The Rainforest Cup will be held 1-2 November at Tully...
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| | 15th ANNUAL SPORTS & CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The 15th Annual Sports and Cultural Festival will be held at Whites Hill Reserve from 28-30 November.
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| | SPORTS AWARDS NOMINATION PERIOD EXTENDED
Nominations for the Queensland Regional Indigenous Sports Awards and the Queensland Young Indigenous Sports Star of the Year will now be open until...
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| | OZ MINERALS QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS SPORTS AWARDS - NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN
QLD Indigenous Sportsperson of the Year & QLD Young Indigenous Sports Star of the Year
If you know of an outstanding Aboriginal or Torres...
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| | AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS BOXING TITLES
The Australian Indigenous Boxing Titles will be held on 22 October 2008 at the Broncos Leagues Club. It will include Australia's best Indigenous...
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| | INDIGENOUS RECONCILIATION CARNIVAL
The inagural Indigenous Reconciliation Rugby League Carnival will be held on 23-24 January 2009.
The event will be held at Saleyards, Rockhampton.
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| | IMPARJA CUP VISITS THURSDAY ISLAND
As a part of a four-day sports expo in Thursday Island, the Imparja Cup has travelled to the island.
It was the first time the trophy had been in...
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| | LIONEL MORGAN SHIELD
The Indigenous U10 and U12 teams from the Black Seagulls will be competing against local Rugby League clubs for the Lionel Morgan Shield on Sunday 14...
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| | LEAGUE’S NO GIRLY GAME
Rugby League is a girl’s game. That’s a fact and it was proved on Palm Island last week when the mighty Jets triumphed over the valiant Bulls in the...
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| | INDIGENOUS TEAM OF THE CENTURY
The Australian Rugby League's Indigenous Team of the Century was announced in August.
Last year's winner of the Eddie Gilbert Medal Johnathan...
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| | WILLIAMS OFF TO HAWAII TO PLAY GRIDIRON
Jesse Williams will be the first Indigenous Australian to play football in The National Collegiate Athletic Association in the USA, after being...
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| | ISQ MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
Indigenous Sport Queensland has announced a three year major sponsorship deal with mining company Oz Minerals at an event held at Substation No.4 in...
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| | OZ MINERALS QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS SPORTS AWARDS
This year the Oz Minerals Queensland Indigenous Sports Awards will be held in November in Cairns.
The nominations for the Regional Award Winners...
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| | JAWAI JOINS RAPTORS
Ex-Cairns Taipans basketballer and the 2008 NBL Rookie of the Year, Nathan Jawai, has signed a two-year contract with the Toronto Raptors in the NBA.
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| | NORTH ON HIS WAY TO BEIJING
Former Queensland Academy of Sport Scholarship holder, Jade North, has been selected in the Australian Football Team to compete at the Olympics in...
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| | OTIS MISSES SELECTION
Queensland athlete Otis Gowa is no longer in contention for the Beijing Olympics after the Australian athletics selectors failed to name a male 100m...
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| | AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S SOFTBALL TEAM
Softball Australia has announced the 2008 Australian Indigenous Team to compete at the International Challenge Series this month at Blacktown Olympic...
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| | AFL SPORTSREADY TRAINEESHIPS
St Peter’s students George Bell and Rex Liddy are taking advantage of the experience offered by AFL SportsReady by completing a traineeship at the...
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| | QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS TELEVISED
The Queensland Indigenous Golf Championship which was contested in March was televised on Foxtel’s NITV last Friday.
The Championship, which is...
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| | NATIONAL INDIGENOUS RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIPS
The National Indigenous Rugby Championships will be held on the Gold Coast from the 2-4 August. The U16 Championship, which is coordinated by the...
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| | 2008 SOUTHERN SKIES TOURNAMENT
The 2008 Southern Skies Tournament was held this year from the 6-11 of July with Indigenous hockey player Kelly Lewis and umpire Roneece Cupitt being...
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| | JOHNSON CAPTAINS AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR WOMEN’S INLINE HOCKEY TEAM
Tennelle Johnson was named captain of the Australian Junior Women’s Inline Hockey Team earlier this year, as they embarked a busy few months...
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| | TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS GAMES
The Australian Sports Commission has released an online activity resource including over 100 indigenous games. The resource, suitable for children...
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| | AFL KICKSTART PROGRAM
The 2008 AFL KickStart Camp was held this month and forty-nine boys from all over Australia have come together to learn skills that will help them...
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| | SKOOL PROJECT 2008
Griffith University are looking for nominees to be a part of a pilot program, free of charge, called Skool Program 2008 that will be held September...
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| | ISQ Major Annoucement
ISQ is hosting its first networking event to engage the wider community, showcasing the upcoming events for 2008 and beyond along with the unveiling...
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| | WILLIAMS A CHANCE FOR BEIJING
The Australian Olympic Men's Football team will be announced on Friday July 4 and one Australian who will be waiting to hear his name called is...
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| | HAGIGA IS RISING STAR IN GYMNASTICS
Cairns City Gymnastics Club representative, Hagiga Mosby, is becoming a rising star in the gymnastics world after she left the Suncorp North...
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| | ISQ BOARD POSITIONS AVAILABLE
If you are interested in applying for a position on the Indigenous Sport Queensland Board, please post your CV to:
Indigenous Sport...
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| | QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS SPORTS AWARDS 2008
The Queensland Indigenous Sports Awards will be held again in 2008. At this stage no date has been set but the proposed timing of this year’s event...
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| | ACTIVITIES ENCOURAGE WOMEN & GIRLS TO GET ACTIVE ON MORNINGTON ISLAND
Womensport Queensland and the Department of Sport of Recreation recently held an Active Women and Girls Morning Tea and physical activity sessions on...
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| | PCYCs TO HELP DELIVER A HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Sport Minister Judy Spence will use funding in Indigenous communities that go dry, to expand the work of PCYCs. Ms Spence believes that sport can...
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| | THE AFL CELEBRATES INDIGENOUS ROUND
Round nine of the AFL was Indigenous Round and to celebrate the first AFL Queensland Indigenous Girls Invitational team played a curtain-raiser...
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| | IN OTHER RUGBY LEAGUE NEWS....
Sea Eagle Michael Bani tore ligaments in his ankle prior to the Broncos game on May 11 but was planning to travel up with the team to see his family.
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| | 2008/09 QUEENSLAND BULLS SQUAD NAMED
Beenleigh/Logan cricketer Worrin Williams has been selected in the 2008/09 Queensland Bulls Squad that was named recently. The 21-year-old will...
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| | NORTHSIDE NATIVES IN TOP FOUR
The Northside Natives Rugby League Club (also known as the Brisbane Natives) are currently sitting in the top four of the Brisbane Second Division,...
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| | NATIONAL WRL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Elsie Seriat was recently selected in the North Queensland team to travel to NSW alongside the South East Queensland team to compete in the National...
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| | THURSTON & HODGES REPRESENT QUEENSLAND
Johnathan Thurston starred in Queensland’s 30-0 thrashing of New South Wales in the second State of Origin match last week, kicking seven goals.
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| | GOOD LUCK BEIJING
The “Good Luck Beijing” 2008 China Athletics Open was held recently with a number of Australian’s competing in the lead up to the Olympics. Last...
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| | HUGHES IMPRESSES IN ROUND ONE
Weightlifter Davina Hughes impressed at Round one of the QWA League and Masters League on February 23. She placed first in the Open Female 58kg...
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| | CROWTHER AND GOWA HIT TRACK AND FIELD
Robbie Crowther and Otis Gowa have been busy since the last instalment of the ISQ newsletter, with the Queensland Open and Under 18 Track and Field...
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| | 2008 LOOKS GOOD FOR DEMPSEY
Dempsey looks set to enjoy season 2008 after a completing a solid pre-season.
Dempsey, who played just five matches in 2005 and one in 2007, has...
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| | AFL SPORTSREADY EMPLOY FULLTIME INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT MENTOR
AFL SportsReady has recently employed Marcia Laurie as their fulltime Indigenous Employment Mentor for Queensland and New South Wales.
The role...
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| | INDIGENOUS SPORT QUEENSLAND AWARDS & HALL OF FAME WEBSITE LAUNCH
Indigenous Sport Queensland is pleased to announce the winners for the 2009 Year in various sports.
Chairman, Wayne Coolwell said the Awards...
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