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Adam Goodes Adam Goodes i(A150311 works by)
Born: Established: 1980 Wallaroo, Northern Yorke Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Narungga ; Aboriginal Adnyamathanha
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BiographyHistory

Adam Goodes is a championship-winning Brownlow Medallist with the Sydney Swans Australian Football League team.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2015 finalist Human Rights Medal
2014 winner Australian of the Year Awards Australian of the Year For his leadership and advocacy in the fight against racism both on the sporting field and within society - a stance which has won him the admiration and respect of people around Australia.
2013 winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards The Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Somebody's Land : Welcome to Our Country Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 22585006 2021 single work picture book children's

'An accessible picture book for young children that introduces First Nations history and the term 'terra nullius' to a general audience, from Australian of the Year, community leader and anti-racism advocate Adam Goodes and political adviser and former journalist Ellie Laing, with artwork by Barkindji illustrator David Hardy.

'For thousands and thousands of years,
Aboriginal people lived in the land we call Australia.

The land was where people
built their homes,
played in the sun,
and sat together to tell stories.

When the white people came,
they called the land
Terra Nullius.
They said it was nobody's land.
But it was somebody's land.

'Somebody's Land is an invitation to connect with First Nations culture, to acknowledge the hurt of the past, and to join together as one community with a precious shared history as old as time.

'Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing's powerful words and David Hardy's pictures, full of life, invite children and their families to imagine themselves into Australia's past - to feel the richness of our First Nations' history, to acknowledge that our country was never terra nullius, and to understand what 'welcome to our country' really means.'(Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Indie Awards Children's
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