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The Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news and events from The Long Walk

Programs The Long Walk has supported in 2008 are on our Outcomes page.
 
Michael Long appeared in Opera at the Lock in Mildura and Opera in the Market in Melbourne in March this year.
 
 
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01 Sep 2009

The Long Walk proud to support Essendon Football Club's Reconciliation Action Plan

Essendon Football Club's Reconciliation Action Plan outlines themes of Respect, Relationships and Opportunities in its actions to address the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. More

30 Jul 2009

10,000 strong support Indigenous Leadership

10,000 people participated in The Long Walk at Federation Square and through Birrarung Marr to the MCG on Saturday 23 May 2009. More

13 Jul 2009

Indigenous Achievers Honoured

A testament to the high quality of nominations -the committee decided to award 11 indigenous Australians with National NAIDOC Awards in 2009 More

15 May 2009

In support of Reconciliation Victoria

The LONG Walk is disappointed the Victorian government has discontinued funding of Reconciliation Victoria. Read a transcipt of The Long Walk's letter to Premier John Brumby. More

25 Apr 2009

Celebrating Indigenous Wellbeing

The LONG Walk on Saturday 23 May, 2009 will feature in a program of diverse events that are themed around Indigenous men, women, youth and footy. All are invited to get involved in these events as we celebrate Indigenous wellbeing. More

02 Mar 2009

Supporting Indigenous Leadership in 2009

With a focus on fulfilling The Long Walk’s charter to improve Indigenous Wellbeing by supporting the development of Indigenous leadership, the Long Walk is working towards a number of awareness raising events and Indigenous leadership programs in 2009. More

09 Dec 2008

The East Gippsland CommUNITY walk against violence a success

The East Gippsland CommUNITY walk against violence has been a great success involving the whole community from Cann River to Rosedale. Organised by East Gippsland Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group, Indigenous and non-Indigenous families from all over Gippsland participated in the walk. Alan Thorpe joined the walk on the Lake Tyers and Lakes Entrance legs and was inspired by the... More

19 Nov 2008

Gippsland says NO to Violence

The East Gippland CommUNITY Walk against Violence Bringing Indigenous and non-Iidigenous individuals, families, communities and agencies in Gippsland together to raise awareness of family violence.    As a Gunai man Alan Thorpe finds it important to support this initiative of the East Gippsland Indigenous... More

28 Oct 2008

Michael Long wins Deadly Award

Winners of the 14th annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander awards were announced at a spectacular star-studded ceremony held at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday, October 9, 2008. A who's who of black Australia dazzled on the red carpet before joining hundreds of excited audience members in the Concert Hall for a celebration of Indigenous excellence in music, sport, entertainment and... More

29 Jul 2007

Long to see PM over a new deal

ESSENDON great Michael Long has backed the Federal Government's intervention in remote communities, while calling for a new deal for Aborigines. More

02 Jun 2007

Crying for the place we could become

I'VE always believed in the power of music as a potent catalyst for social change. I believed it when I first heard Bart Willoughby's voice out front of No Fixed Address in 1981 proudly proclaiming We Have Survived. I believed it when Shane Howard's band Goanna made the first non-indigenous musical statement about land rights with Solid Rock. I believed it as I sang my lungs out in tiny pubs in... More

26 May 2007

Dancing to a new tune helps young

VINCENT Ramsay saw the possibilities back in 2002. The then 18-year-old Gija man from the Kimberley had never been out of the 50-person settlement of Bow River. Then he found himself in Melbourne with the Neminuwarlin Performance Group, dancing in Fire Fire, Burning Bright, a "joonba", or corroboree, for the Melbourne Arts Festival. More

14 May 2007

Sing-a-Long a rousing new anthem for Aboriginal leaders

He looked slightly nervous as he tackled the world of rock stardom yesterday but Michael Long needn't have worried: He was a natural. More

20 Apr 2007

Time is right for Long to walk again

AFL Champion and Indigenous leader Michael Long has backed moves to persuade leading companies to hire more Aboriginal people, saying jobs are a key source of self-esteem and health for Indigenous Australians. More

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