NRL Indigenous Youth Ambassadors attend the Harvey Norman All Stars /

The 2023 NRL Indigenous Youth Ambassadors, Talleira Swain, Noah Doig, Axel Welling and Emillia Cartwright attended the NRL Harvey Norman All Stars on the beautiful lands of the Wulgurukaba and Bindal People.

Spending the week in the Indigenous Men’s and Women’s camp the four ambassadors got to experience up and personal what the week looks like from, Captains run to NITV interviews. They were able to watch the team practise their cultural performances and have personal yarns with the players and coaches of both teams. One of the highlights for the students was getting to meet aunty Gail Mabo and attending her ART exhibition run by Gail herself. They also got to attend a leadership dialogue with ARLIC, Uluru statement from the Heart and Greg Inglis.

This was an incredible experience and as a proud Wiradjuri man this round of football is always a special one to me and getting to be apart of it this year was truely incredible

Axel Wellings 2023 Male Indigenous Youth Ambassador

Being around so many proud Indigenous and Māori people, embracing their culture throughout every aspect of the week was inspiring. It truly made me realise just how prominent culture can be, even when working hard towards your goals. It felt like such a loving and understanding community. Seeing the players on that more personal and cultural level was also so amazing and puts the game and the people at the NRL in general into such a different perspective.

Emillia Cartwright Chami 2023 Female Indigenous Youth Ambassador

It was a special moment and opportunity for these four young students who can now take back to their communities what they learnt during their week’s experience.

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