Tasia Zalar
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Tasia Zalar is an Indigenous Australian actress and musician. She was nominated for Most Popular New Talent at the Logie Awards for her role as Shevorne Shields in the ABC series Mystery Road. She app
Zalar in 2016
Marn Grook
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Marn Grook, marn-grook or marngrook is the popular collective name for traditional Indigenous Australian football games played at gatherings and celebrations by sometimes more than 100 players. From t
Tasia Zalar
…of Gunggandji, Kaurareg, Gugu Thaypan, Mualgal, Gumulgal, and Wuthathi heritage. She attended Trinity Bay State High School. She played football and marngrook with the North Cairns Tigers growing up. She moved to Melbourne at 19 and splits her time between there and Townsville. Zalar began her career when she…
Australian Aboriginal domestic scene depicting traditional recreation, including one child kicking the ball, with the object and caption being to "never let the ball hit the ground". (From William Blandowski's Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen, 1857, (Haddon Library, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge)
Marn Grook (detail)
Australian football pioneer Tom Wills grew up as the only white child among Djab wurrung Aborigines in Western Victoria
Tom Wills monument in Moyston makes a claim to the Marn Grook connection