The Long Walk http://www.thelongwalk.com.au The Long Walk is an annual fundraising event - we walk for change and a united Australia. The Long Walk Trust was established by Michael Long in 2004. The Long Walk welcomes the apology When Michael Long set out to walk to Canberra in late 2004, he did so to raise awareness of the injustices between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. He wanted to highlight the inequality in health, education and employment. As he and other walkers, black and white, walked together, it was an action which others could relate to. They were walking the walk. In November 2004 there was no... http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/the-long-walk-welcomes-the-apology/367550/news-item.htm 2008-03-19 News 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. http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/long-to-see-pm-over-a-new-deal/281450/news-item.htm 2007-07-29 News Lincoln Wright (mailto:kim.kruger@essendonfc.com.au) 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... http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/crying-for-the-place-we-could-become/242950/news-item.htm 2007-06-02 News Tracee Hutchison (mailto:kim.kruger@essendonfc.com.au) 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. http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/dancing-to-a-new-tune-helps-young/239450/news-item.htm 2007-05-26 News Jo Roberts (mailto:kim.kruger@essendonfc.com.au) 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. http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/singalong-a-rousing-new-anthem-for-aboriginal-le/224750/news-item.htm 2007-05-14 News Dan Silkstone (mailto:kim.kruger@essendonfc.com.au) 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. http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/time-is-right-for-long-to-walk-again/210750/news-item.htm 2007-04-20 News Rick Wallace (mailto:kim.kruger@essendonfc.com.au)/assets/130/newsimages/ 264_1