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Boys from Djarragun College, a school for indigenous students near Cairns, perform dances from Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait during an evening celebration for Mabo Day in Cairns. They sing and dance “Au meta lug bawki” (about Calm weather and sea), “A.T. up” (about the Hammersley Iron Train, on which some Islander men used to work), “Sama iye rofe le” (a song from the Pacific), “Lim brim” (a song about diving for trochus shells). After a reprise of “Au meta lug bawki” the boys march off.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Tue Jun 03, 2003
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