Cooktown & Laura Dance travel video guide Queensland Australia
In this Adventure on our drive through North Queensland we venture north of Cairns, up the famous Bloomfield track and visit the destination of Cooktown.
Cooktown is rich in Aboriginal culture so we spent a few days checking out many of its great cultural experiences.
We also checked out the Laura Dance Festival a cultural event that only happens once every 2 years
For further information on what we have featured in this story please visit
Quinkan & Regional Cultural Centre
(07) 4060 3457
website.
James Cook Museum
p. (07) 4069 5386
Guurrbi Aboriginal Tours
(07) 4069 6043
website.
Laura Dance Festival
website.
Apollo Motorhomes
p. 1800 777 779
website.
TRAVEL VLOG AUSTRALIA: Cooktown Festival
Cooktown Festival is about the history of Cooktown and it's creator James Cook. The annual festival shows Cooktown from it's nicest side and is for the whole family. From Aboriginal Art to competitions of all kind, there's a lot to see. I had a great time!
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Scott Morrison in Cooktown to announce Endeavour circumnavigation
22/01/2019 Scott Morrison announces a plan to sail around Australia for the 250th anniversary of Lieutenant James Cook's first voyage. However, it was navigator & cartographer Matthew Flinders who was the first European to circumnavigate Australia.
Adventurous By Nature - Cooktown Seniors
Adventurous By Nature! There are many ways to be adventurous in Cooktown and Cape York. The lifestyle and being able to relax and slow down - an escape from the fast paced life of the city. You can also have 4WD adventures, walk along the empty beaches, fish from the Cooktown wharf or then many wild rivers and beaches or explore the great barrier reef just off Cooktown. See remote wilderness areas, rainforest, local festivals, and learn about the history - Captain Cook and the indigenous stories, rock art and rich culture. Visit the many art venues, galleries, museums, crafts and produce markets; enjoy spectacular birdwatching, scenic bush walks, great food and a very relaxed approach to life! We'd love to meet you!
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Cooktown
A quick survey of Cooktown at dawn.
Hip hop, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia.
A group of children from Cooktown attend a hip,hop course. The man in black with a bluewhite cap is the teacher. My grandson in jeans and a red T-shirt enjoys dancing very much.
kuril dhagun Deadly Stories Cooktown
The kuril dhagun Deadly Stories project aims to capture stories of local heros. These films were created through film-making workshops with Indigenous people in Cooktown.
They interviewed Alberta Hornsby, Lea and Angelina Stephens and Herbert McLean.
State Library of Queensland would like to thank all of those who took part in the workshops and helped to make this project a success. We’d like to especially thank our partner Cook Shire Council Library Services.
On tour with Aboriginal Elder, Willie Gordon of Guurrbi Tours, Cooktown
These magical tours with Aboriginal Elder, Willie Gordon, are now listed as One of Australia's Ultimate Must-Do Experiences. Willie takes guests to his ancestral rock art sites, set in stunning countryside high in the hills outside Cooktown, Tropical North Queensland. Here he shares the stories behind the art, and explains how the paintings speak of the essence of life and the lores of his people. With his great smile and infectious laugh, Willie gives an amazing insight into Aboriginal society and spirituality, and shows how we all have a spiritual link to the land, wherever we come from.
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Cooktown Art - Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery Tour
Cooktown School of Art Society and Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery July 2010 tour around the gallery. Hope you enjoy :-)
We are a non-profit organisation and are always needing funds to continue to pay for art activities in our community. Donations gratefully accepted via our web site
The kids, adults and seniors of Cooktown all benefit from joining in art activities when we have the funds to run them.
See for the Kids Asia Pacific Triennial where artists created interactive and engaging art activities for children and we had an art day in Cooktown.
Also the Biennial Cooktown Art Festival in 2007 and 2009 showcasing local and district art talent. Some great photos of artists work on our website (click Art Festival links) and Cooktown Art Blog. We can't afford to run the festival again in 2011 unless we manage to get donations.
For our history and links to photo albums showcasing members art works visit our website or if on Facebook or Twitter become a friend of Cooktown Art.
Cooktown Art - Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery
Cooktown School of Art Society and Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery July 2010 tour in gallery. You may enjoy a look around the gallery! :-)
We are a non-profit organisation and are always needing funds to continue to pay for art activities in our community. Donations gratefully accepted via our web site
The kids, adults and seniors of Cooktown all benefit from joining in art activities when we have the funds to run them.
See for the Kids Asia Pacific Triennial where artists created interactive and engaging art activities for children and we had an art day in Cooktown.
Also the Biennial Cooktown Art Festival in 2007 and 2009 showcasing local and district art talent. Some great photos of artists work on our website (click Art Festival links) and Cooktown Art Blog. We can't afford to run the festival again in 2011 unless we manage to get donations.
For our history and links to photo albums showcasing members art works visit our website or if on Facebook or Twitter become a friend of Cooktown Art.
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Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures | S01E01: Red Centre Part 1
Travel with Russell Coight as he heads north into the Outback to help out a mate with the annual cattle muster. On the way he looks for some bush tucker, helps out a stranded motorist and sets up his nightly camp, all the while offering many handy tips.
Season 1: Episode 1 (Red Centre Part 1)
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Australia Tara Air Strip For Queensland Oil Town (1962)
Tara, Australia.
Title reads 'New Air Strip Opened at Oil Boom Town'.
Aerial view of three oil wells that have been struck by a American - Australian company in the Queensland oil country. Several shots of rig at one of the wells. Looking down street of Tara, a small Queensland town which is close to the oil wells. LS. TAA (Trans Australia Airlines) aeroplane landing on new airstrip which has been built to accommodate the many travellers into Tara. Aerial view of remote town of Tara.
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Date found in the old record - 14/05/1962.
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EXPERIENCING REAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE in CAIRNS (Queensland, Australia)
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Learning language with Aunty Irene
t’s story time at the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy school in Hopevale and Aunty Irene Hammett is armed with her Guugu Yimidhirr language books.
She wrote them based on her and her family’s childhoods. They tell tales of adventures on country - through the bush, and at the beach.
The class gathers on the mat in front of Aunty Irene and listen intently.
Irene is a long-time teacher and reader at this Hopevale school and is a passionate advocate for the speaking of her mother tongue.
“Language is something that no one else can take away from you,” she says. “It’s in your heart and in your mind.”
Produced by Gemma Deavin
This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which invited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share a story about their mother tongue.
715 Health Check - Cairns Video Case Study
Dr Mark Wenitong is one of a kind. Descending from the Kabi Kabi tribal group of South Queensland, Mark is one of the first Aboriginal men to graduate as a Doctor and is now a powerful advocate for improving Indigenous health outcomes.
Mark says, the annual Health Check for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, item 715 under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, provides enormous opportunities for GPs to engage with Indigenous communities about their health needs.
The 715 health check is available annually to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of all ages. Further information, including resources for patients and health practitioners is available at health.gov.au/715-health-check.
HMB Endeavour departs Cairns for Cooktown
Cairns.com.au visits the modern replica of the Endeavour, normally moored at the Maritime Museum in Sydney, which berthed in Cairns as part of her circumnavigation of Australia.
Aboriginals forced to take part in First Fleet reenactment
'All I remember is crying': Elder recalls the moment indigenous dancers were forced to play the humiliating role of 'retreating Aboriginals' during a First Fleet re-enactment in 1938. An Aboriginal elder has recalled the moment 25 indigenous men were told their families would starve if they did not take part in a First Fleet re-enactment.
Dancers and singers from Menindee mission in western New South Wales were chosen by government officials and brought to Sydney under the premise of