The Gold Coast SUNS are pleased to unveil its 2024 AFLW Indigenous and Pride guernseys.
The two jumpers will be donned by the SUNS later in the 2024 AFLW season during this year’s Pride and Indigneous Rounds respectively.
For the first time, the club’s AFL and AFLW teams will wear the same Indigenous design, designed by Yugambeh and Bundjalung artists Christine Slabb and Kyle Slabb.
The design, as seen during the AFL’s Sir Doug Nicholls Round earlier in 2024, is inspired by Garrara, the language name of a long lagoon that ran south to north along what is today known as the Gold Coast.
Represented by the feather motifs are Bilin-Bilin (rainbow lorikeet), Dun-Dun (swamp pheasant) and Mibin (eagle).
Ancestors of kinship groups are represented by the human-like figures. The circular symbols represent the sacred and cultural camps that local Aboriginal people inhabit and maintain while the background represented the vast space of the once large lagoon.
2024 also marks the fourth consecutive season in which the SUNS will don a Pride guernsey as the AFLW celebrates Pride Round in Round 7.
The guernsey was designed in conjunction with the playing group and features the colours of the Pride Progress and Pride flags on the shoulders and down each side alongside elements of the traditional SUNS design.
