The Indigenous Nationals is a

multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of interna ...

held annually between the 43

Australian universities Tertiary education in Australia is formal education beyond high school, consisting of both government and private institutions and divided into two sectors; vocational education and training (which includes TAFEs) and higher education (which incl ...

and tertiary institutions. Overseen by UniSport Australia, the peak governing body of university sport in Australia. Only

Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

are allowed to compete.

History

13 students of the Wollotuka Institute ( University of Newcastle) were enrolled in a Diploma of Aboriginal Studies (Community Recreation). These students created the National Indigenous Tertiary Education Student Games (NITESG). The

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

has been the most successful amongst competing universities in the Nationals, having achieved Overall Winner a total of seven times (2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009 2013, 2014).

Results

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References

External links

Indigenous Nationals
- official website
Archived website
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