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Nambour, Queensland
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Nambour is a town and locality in South East Queensland, Australia,101 kilometres north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town lies in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast at the foot of the Blackall Range and has a population of 10,221. It was the centre and capital of the Maroochy Shire and is now the administrative centre of the Sunshine Coast Region. The greater Nambour region includes surrounding suburbs such as Burnside, Coes Creek, and Perwillowen, the name is derived from the Aboriginal word naamba, referring to the red-flowering bottle brush Callistemon viminalis. The area now known as Nambour, was first settled in 1870, the town was then called Petries Creek. In 1890 the Maroochy Divisional Board was established, in 1891, the rail link with Brisbane was completed, and at its opening Petries Creek was renamed Nambour, after the Nambour cattle station. A fire in 1924 destroyed many of the buildings along the main street. Petries Creek Post Office opened on 1 June 1888 and was renamed Nambour by 1890, along the middle of the roadway of Mill, Currie and Howard Streets, a piece of Queensland Rail history is still on display - the Nambour to Coolum Tramline. The Tramline was used to transport passengers and sugar cane in the early 1920s, the Tramline forms part of the Moreton Central Sugar Mill Cane Tramway, The tramway closed at the end of 2001. Much of the track and signal lighting still remains, the town was bypassed by the Bruce Highway on 16 October 1990. This alleviated most of the traffic congestion. The Nambour & District Historical Museum, more known as the Nambour Museum. 2% of the population were males. The median age was 39 and 14. 1% were born overseas, aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders comprised 3. 2% of the population. Nambour is represented by the politicians, Nambours primary industry has been sugar, with extensive cane fields surrounding the town. The mill itself began operating in 1897 until it was closed in 2003, the long-term future of the sugar industry in the area is in doubt. Other industries in the area include tourism, and the growing of tropical fruits, the Big Pineapple tourist attraction on the southern outskirts of the town reflects both of these pursuits. The Big Pineapple Music Festival attracts thousands of visitors to Nambour, other tourist attractions include Thrill Hill Waterslide Park, the Big Cow, and the Big Macadamia nut. Situated near Nambour is the Queensland Governments Maroochy Research Station which is a subtropical fruit and nut research
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Gamilaraay
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The Kamilaroi is one of the four largest indigenous nations in Australia. The Kamilaroi language is classified in the Pama–Nyungan family of Australian languages, the Kamilaroi Highway, Sydney Ferries Limiteds vehicular ferry Kamilaroi, and a cultivar of Durum wheat have all been named after the Kamilaroi people. The language is no longer spoken, though parts have bneen reconstructed by late field work. Robert M. W. Dixon and his student Peter Austin recorded some around Moree, while Corinne Williams wrote a thesis on the Yuwaaliyaay dialect spoken at Walgett, the Gamilaroi were hunters and gatherers with a band-level social organization. Important vegetable foods were yams and other roots, as well as a sterculia grain, insect larvae, frogs, and eggs of several different animals were also gathered. Various birds, kangaroos, emus, iguanas, possums, echidnas, dingo pups were regarded as a delicacy. Fish were also consumed, as were crayfish, mussels, men typically hunted, cleaned, and prepared the game for cooking. Women did the cooking, in addition to fishing and gathering. Individual Kamilaroi did not eat animals that were their totems, the Gamilaroi or Gomilaroi from the word Kamil or Gamil meaning no, are a large nation of Aborigines consisting of many tribes. The Gamilaroi are the second largest Aboriginal nation on the side of Australia. The nation was made up of smaller family groups who had their own parcels of land to sustain them. One of the great Kings of this tribe was Red Chief, the last link with tribal law and custom in Mungindi would be the forebear of the present Cubby family, who was the last known Respected Elder in the tribe. The Kamilaroi were regarded as fierce warriors and there is evidence of intertribal warfare. The Northern Gamilaroi people have a cultural connection with the Bigambul people. Kamilaroi tradition includes Baiame, the ancestor or patron god, the Baiame story tells how Baiame came down from the sky to the land, and created rivers, mountains, and forests. He then gave the people their laws of life, traditions, songs and he also created the first initiation site. This is known as a bora, a place where boys were initiated into manhood, when he had finished, he returned to the sky, and people called him the Sky Hero or All Father or Sky Father. He is said to be married to Birrahgnooloo, who is identified as an emu
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Tamworth, New South Wales
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Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth is the regional centre for the New England region and is in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. Approximately 318 km from the Queensland border, the city is located almost midway between Brisbane and Sydney, the two largest cities on the Australian east coast, the city had an estimated population of 42,255 people at 30 June 2015. The city is known as the First City of Lights, being the first place in Australia to use electric lights in 1888. Tamworth is also famous as the Country Music Capital of Australia, annually hosting the Tamworth Country Music Festival in late January, the Kamilaroi people, from whose language comes the word budgerigar, inhabited the area before European contact. In the 1830s, a town began to develop on the Peels southwest bank. In 1850, a town was gazetted on the opposite side of the river from the existing settlement. This town became the town, called Tamworth after Tamworth, Staffordshire. The town prospered, and was reached by the railway in 1878, on 9 November 1888, Tamworth became the first location in Australia to have electric street lighting powered by a municipally owned power station, giving the city the title of First City of Light. The first streetlights used in Australia were commercially owned in Waratah Tasmania in 1886,1818 – Explorer John Oxley passes through the area on his exploration mission. Names the river now runs through the town, Peel River, after British Prime Minister Robert Peel. 1831 – First sheep and cattle stations, namely Joseph Browns Wallamoul, the exploring expedition led by Major Mitchell visited Wallamoul in December 1831 on its way to the north-west. 1834 –6000 sheep of the Australian Agriculture Company were the first to be brought to the Tamworth region,1851 – The white population of the village of Tamworth was 254. 1852 – John Barnes built the Royal Oak Hotel,1866 – Tamworth Mechanics Institute opened. 1882 - Tamworth railway station opened,1883 - Tamworth base hospital opened. 1888 – Power station opened and enables beginning of street lighting. The first electric streetlights in Australia,1918 – An anchor is unveiled as a memorial to the discovery of Tamworth district. 1947 – East-West Airlines was established in Tamworth, flying Tamworth to Sydney,1947 – Institution for Boys home for criminal youth opened
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Stolen Generations
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Documentary evidence, such as newspaper articles and reports to parliamentary committees, suggest a range of rationales. A minority of historians dispute that substantial numbers of mixed-blood Aboriginal children were taken from their families. They contend that some children were removed mainly to protect them from neglect, given their catastrophic population decline after white contact, whites assumed that the full-blood tribal Aboriginal population would be unable to sustain itself, and was doomed to extinction. The idea expressed by A. O. Euro-Australians believed that their civilisation was superior to that of Aborigines, the Northern Territory Chief Protector of Aborigines, Dr. Cecil Cook, argued that everything necessary to convert the half-caste into a white citizen. The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 included the earliest legislation to authorise child removal from Aboriginal parents, the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines had been advocating such powers since 1860. Passage of the Act gave the colony of Victoria a wide suite of powers over Aboriginal and half-caste persons, including the removal of children. As a result of legislation, states arranged widespread removal of mixed-race children from their Aboriginal mothers. In addition, appointed Aboriginal protectors in each state exercised wide-ranging guardianship powers over Aborigines up to the age of 16 or 21, often determining where they could live or work. Policemen or other agents of the state were given the power to locate and transfer babies and children of mixed descent from their mothers, families, the exact number of children removed is unknown. Estimates of numbers have been widely disputed, the Bringing Them Home report says that at least 100,000 children were removed from their parents. This figure was estimated by multiplying the Aboriginal population in 1994, the report stated that between one in three and one in ten children were separated from their families, not one in three persons in the total population. Given differing populations over a period of time, different policies at different times in different states. Australian historian Robert Manne suggests approximately 20,000 to 25,000 were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994, keith Windschuttle and other historians have argued for a much lower figure. In certain regions and in periods the figure was undoubtedly much greater than one in ten. In that time not one family has escaped the effects of forcible removal, most families have been affected, in one or more generations, by the forcible removal of one or more children. The report closely examined the distinctions between forcible removal, removal under threat or duress, official deception, uninformed voluntary release, Aboriginal Protection Officers often made the judgement to remove certain children. In some cases, families were required to sign documents to relinquish care to the state. In Western Australia, the Aborigines Act 1905 removed the legal guardianship of Aboriginal parents and it made all their children legal wards of the state, so the government did not require parental permission to relocate the mixed-race children to institutions
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Inverell
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Inverell is a town in northern New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Macintyre River. It is also the centre of Inverell Shire, Inverell is located on the Gwydir Highway on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands. In the 2011 census, the population of Inverell was 9,347, in 1848, Alexander Campbell held the 50, 000-acre Inverell Station on the Macintyre River. The name derives from the name of Mr. MacIntyres estate, the word is of Gaelic origin, and signifies meeting place of the swans, from Inver, a meeting place, and Ell, a swan. The MacIntyre River and Swanbrook Creek join here, the area was also known as Green Swamp in the 1850s. Wheat growers, Colin and Rosanna Ross established a store there in 1853, in 1858 this was done and in the following years the plan was approved and the first land sale was held. Byron Post Office was replaced by the Inverell Post Office on 15 September 1859, the municipality was proclaimed in March 1872. The last section of the Inverell branchline, from Delungra to Inverell, was opened on 10 March 1902, the last train ran to Inverell on 22 June 1987, and the Delungra to Inverell section of the line was closed on 2 December 1987. In 1871, the population of Inverell was 509, this increased to 1,212 in 1881, after Federation, the population of Inverell was 1,230 in 1911, and grew to 6,530 and 8,209. Diamonds were discovered at Copes Creek in 1875 and were mined at Copeton from 1883-1922, commercial sapphire mining was commenced in 1919 at Frazers Creek near Inverell. Rich alluvial deposits in streams were worked initially by hand miners, the Inverell district is in a fertile agricultural region which produces a wide range of crops, including wheat, barley, oats, sorghum, wine grapes and maize. There are also some mining activities with tin, sapphires, zircons, Inverell is known as the ‘Sapphire City’ because of the sapphires that found throughout the local district, contributing to a major part of Australias sapphire production. Copeton Dam, the main water supply, was completed in 1976. While being smaller than Sydney Harbour, it can hold nearly 2 times the capacity of Port Jackson, the Inland Fishing Festival is held there every year. The Grafton to Inverell Cycle Classic is a one day cycling event. Beginning in Grafton, passing through Glen Innes and finishing in Inverell, the race starts at 23 metres above sea level and climbs to 1260 metres, before finishing in Inverell at 630 metres. The race is six to seven long, depending on weather conditions. There are two schools in Inverell, Ross Hill School and Inverell Public School
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Griffith University
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Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australias first degrees in environmental science, the University is named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, who was twice Premier of Queensland and the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Sir Samuel Griffith played a role in the Federation of Australia and was the principal author of the Australian constitution. The Mount Gravatt and South Bank campuses are located in Brisbane. Griffith is a verdant university and a member of the IRU, in 1965174 hectares of natural bushland at Nathan were set aside for a new campus. Initially the site was to be part of the University of Queensland, by 1970 a new institution was being mooted, and Theodor Bray was asked by the Queensland Government to establish a second for Brisbane and the third for the state. After several months of discussion, the Queensland Government announced on 24 December 1970 that Bray would head a committee charged with establishing Griffith University, the Mount Gravatt site was renamed Nathan and set to become Griffith’s first campus. On 30 September 1971, the Queensland Government officially created and recognised Griffith University with the passing of the Assent to Griffith University Act 1971. On 5 March 1975, Griffith University began teaching 451 students in four schools, Australian Environmental Studies, Humanities, Modern Asian Studies, the university was distinguished by its problem-based rather than disciplinary approach to course design and research. In the 1990s, the Dawkins Revolution saw a number of education reforms in Australia. In 1990, the Mount Gravatt Teachers College and Gold Coast College of Advanced Education became official campuses of Griffith University, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music continued the higher education mergers and became an official part of Griffith University in 1991. Originally established in 1957, the new entity known as Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Griffith’s fifth campus, Logan, opened in 1998, located in the suburb of Meadowbrook, on an area of green fields south of Brisbane, the Logan campus was established to specifically address the interests and needs of the Logan City area. Griffith University’s campuses are distinctive for their nature-based settings within urban environments, the Gold Coast campus is located in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport. Set in native bushland, on the land of the Aboriginal Yugambeh and Kombumerri peoples, this campus plays host to over 18,200 students from all over Australia and it is Griffith Universitys largest campus. The campus is serviced by two Gold Coast light rail stations, and is an interchange for bus routes. Logan is Griffith University’s community-focused campus, hosting almost 2500 students, the campus offers degrees in human services and social work, nursing and midwifery, business and commerce, and education. The campus has strong connections with the community, hosting numerous sorting
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Brisbane
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Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbanes metropolitan area has a population of 2.35 million, the Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite, one of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe,28 kilometres north of the business district. The city was marred by the Australian frontier wars between 1843 and 1855, and development was set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a role in the Allied campaign. Today, Brisbane is well known for its distinct Queenslander architecture which forms much of the built heritage. It also receives attention for its damaging flood events, most notably in 1974 and 2011. Several large cultural, international and sporting events have held at Brisbane, including the 1982 Commonwealth Games, World Expo 88, the final Goodwill Games in 2001. Prior to white settlement, the Brisbane area was inhabited by the Turrbal and they knew the area that is now the central business district as Mian-jin, meaning place shaped as a spike. The Moreton Bay area was explored by Matthew Flinders. On 17 July 1799, Flinders landed at what is now known as Woody Point, in 1823 Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay. Oxley discovered, named, and explored the Brisbane River as far as Goodna,20 kilometres upstream from the Brisbane central business district, Oxley recommended Red Cliff Point for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore. The party settled in Redcliffe on 13 September 1824, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Miller with 14 soldiers and 29 convicts. However, this settlement was abandoned after a year and the colony was moved to a site on the Brisbane River now known as North Quay,28 km south, chief Justice Forbes gave the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane. Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838, German missionaries settled at Zions Hill, Nundah as early as 1837, five years before Brisbane was officially declared a free settlement. The band consisted of ministers Christopher Eipper and Carl Wilhelm Schmidt and lay missionaries Haussmann, Johann Gottried Wagner, Niquet, Hartenstein, Zillman, Franz, Rode, Doege and they were allocated 260 hectares and set about establishing the mission, which became known as the German Station
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Special Broadcasting Service
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The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network. SBS operates four TV channels and five radio networks, SBS Online is home to SBS On Demand video streaming service. SBS is one of five main networks in Australia. These started broadcasting in June 1975, with pre-recorded messages in seven and eight foreign languages, the following year, the Federal Government formed the Consultative Committee on Ethnic Broadcasting. Following the recommendation of this and subsequent committees, the Broadcasting and this legislation came into force on 1 January 1978, with the new broadcaster taking responsibility for 2EA and 3EA. SBS TV began test transmissions in April 1979 when it showed various foreign language programs on ABV-2 Melbourne, full-time transmission began at 6,30 p. m. on 24 October 1980, as Channel 0/28. The first program shown was a documentary entitled Who Are We. which was hosted by veteran news man Peter Luck, at the time, SBS was broadcasting on UHF Channel 28 and VHF Channel 0, with a planned discontinuation of the latter at some time in the future. Bruce Gyngell, who introduced television to Australia back in 1956, was given the task of introducing the first batch of programs on the new station. On 14 October 1983, the service expanded into Canberra, Cooma and its new slogan was the long-running Bringing the World Back Home. The network changed its name to SBS on 18 February 1985, SBS expanded to Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Wollongong, and the Gold Coast in June of that year. On 5 January 1986, SBS ceased broadcasting on the VHF channel 0 frequency, in August 1986, the government proposed legislation that would merge SBS into the ABC. This was highly unpopular with ethnic-minority communities, leading Prime Minister Bob Hawke to announce in 1987 that the amalgamation would not proceed. The SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra was launched in 1988 with founding conductor Matthew Krel, plans to introduce limited commercial-program sponsorship, and the establishment of SBS as an independent corporation with its own Charter, were put in place in July 1989. Eat Carpet, showcasing local and international films, was also launched in 1989. The proclamation of the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991 officially made SBS a corporation in 1991, throughout the early 1990s, SBS TV coverage was expanded further to include new areas such as the Latrobe Valley, Spencer Gulf, Darwin, northeast Tasmania, Cairns and Townsville. In 1992, SBSs radio and television facilities were moved to new headquarters in Artarmon, New South Wales, from their original studios at Bondi Junction. The new building was opened on the 10 November 1993 by Prime Minister Paul Keating. A national radio network was launched in January 1994, the new service initially covered Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, while original stations 2EA and 3EA were renamed Radio Sydney and Radio Melbourne, respectively
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is Australias national public broadcaster, owned and funded by the government. The ABC plays a role in the history of broadcasting in Australia. With a total budget of A$1. Founded in 1929 as the Australian Broadcasting Company, it was made a state-owned corporation on 1 July 1932 as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 changed the name of the organisation to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, although funded and owned by the government, the ABC remains editorially independent as ensured through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983. The ABC is sometimes referred to as Aunty, originally in imitation of the British Broadcasting Corporations nickname. The first public station in Australia opened in Sydney on 23 November 1923 under the call sign 2SB with other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth. It also nationalised the Australian Broadcasting Company which had created by entertainment interests to supply programs to various radio stations. Over the next four years the stations were reformed into a broadcasting organisation through regular program relays. The Australian broadcast radio spectrum was constituted of the ABC and the commercial sector, in 1942 The Australian Broadcasting Act was passed, giving the ABC the power to decide when, and in what circumstances, political speeches should be broadcast. Directions from the Minister about whether or not to broadcast any matter now had to be made in writing and it was used only once, in 1963. In the same year, Kindergarten of the Air began on ABC Radio in Perth, cater argues that reform was urgently needed in 1945, By the end of World War II, the ABC was a decadent, hollow institution. Its authority had been compromised by a poorly drafted charter and further undermined by timid management, poor governance, in April 1945, Boyer refused to accept the post of chairman until Prime Minister Curtin issued a mandate of independence which Boyer drafted itself. The ABC commenced television broadcasting in 1956, and followed the earlier practice of naming the station after the first letter of the base state. ABN-2 Sydney was inaugurated by Prime Minister Robert Menzies on 5 November 1956, with the first broadcast presented by Michael Charlton, aBV-2 followed two weeks later, on 18 November 1956. Stations in other cities followed, ABQ-2, ABS-2, ABW-2. ABC-3 Canberra opened in 1961, and ABD-6 started broadcasting in 1971, although radio programs could be distributed nationally by landline, television relay facilities were not in place until the early 1960s. This meant that news bulletins had to be sent to each city by teleprinter, to be prepared and presented separately in each city, with filmed materials copied manually
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Beneath Clouds
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Beneath Clouds is a 2002 film by Australian director Ivan Sen. It is the film debut by the two lead actors. Damian Pitt was approached by Sen on the streets of Moree, New South Wales, dannielle Hall was cast through a more traditional method, via an audition tape. Much of the support cast were local residents from Pitts hometown of Moree, Lena has an absent Irish father she longs to see and an Aboriginal mother she finds disgusting. When she breaks away, she meets up with petty criminal Vaughn whos just escaped from low security prison to visit his dying mother. Blonde and light-skinned, Lena remains in denial about her Aboriginal heritage, an uneasy relationship begins to form as they hit the road heading to Sydney, taking them on a journey thats as emotional as it is physical, as revealing as it is desperate. Initially the two reluctant travelling companions are suspicious and wary of other, but their journey, mostly by foot. The film follows its creators own experiences growing up in Inverell, NSW with an Aboriginal mother, the film was financed by the New South Wales Film Commission and the Australian Film Finance Corporation. The Rotten Tomatoes Want-To-See score is currently 79%, but no approval rating has been announced to this day. Only two film critics have posted reviews on the site, both positive, urban Cinefile Critics commented Displaying about equal amounts of naiveté, passion and talent, Beneath Clouds establishes Sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential. Andrew Howe of eCritic. com called it One of the few films to canvass the issues facing the Aboriginal community from an adolescent perspective. Beneath Clouds grossed $548,416 at the box office in Australia, list of Australian films Cinema of Australia Beneath Clouds at the Internet Movie Database Beneath Clouds at the National Film and Sound Archive
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Berlin International Film Festival
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues
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AACTA Awards
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The awards recognise excellence of professionals in the film and television industry and it is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards, the awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958 and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film, the AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. As of 2011, the Australian awards take place at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney and they were instituted in 1958, as a way to improve the impoverished state of Australian cinema, and was part of the Melbourne International Film Festival until 1972. Between 1958–1980, submitted films were presented with a gold, silver or bronze prize, and in some circumstances, a Grand Prix award, which was the highest honour a film could receive. Additionally, films were presented with a gold or silver medallion for technical achievements. Up until 1970, prizes were handed out in recognition of the film and production, rather than achievements of individual filmmakers and crafts people. In 1977 feature film categories became competitive, while non-feature films continued to be awarded the gold, silver and bronze prizes until 1981, in 1976 the awards were broadcast live on television for the first time on the Nine Network at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne. In 1986 television categories were introduced, presenting awards for mini-series and telefeatures before expanding to dramas, in June 2011, the AFI announced an industry consultation for an Australian Academy. The aim of the Academy is to create awareness for Australian film in local and international markets, the name of the new Academy was revealed on 18 August 2011 as the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, with the awards renamed to the AACTA Awards. The date change was made to align the awards with the awards season. At the time of the inception, a jury of five judges, composed of film critics and filmmakers. In 1976, the system was replaced by a peer voting process for feature films which would allow public members the right to vote in the Best Film category. The nominees and winners were later peer-voted by a jury which was made up of representatives from all industry crafts, including members of guilds, who have a professional membership with the AFI. When the AFI announced the launch of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, the fifteen Chapters consist of professionals from industry guilds and organisations including actors, producers, directors and screenwriters. All television and non-feature film awards, and feature film pre-selection are determined by juries, members of the Australian Film Institute are eligible to vote in the Best Short Fiction Film, Best Short Animation and Audience Choice award categories only. The votes are audited by accounting firm Ernst and Young from 2011, throughout the history of the awards there have been several differently designed awards given to winners
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Un Certain Regard
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Un Certain Regard (French pronunciation, is a section of the Cannes Film Festivals official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme dOr and this section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The name literally means a certain glance, but is understood by French speakers to mean from another point of view, here it means films with various types of visions and styles, which tell their stories in nontraditional ways. This section presents 20 original and different works which seek international recognition, since 2005, the prize consists of €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. * Denotes first win for a country
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Sydney Opera House
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the 20th centurys most famous and distinctive buildings, designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzons 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition. The government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, performances are presented by numerous performing artists, including four resident companies, Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As one of the most popular attractions in Australia, more than eight million people visit the site annually. The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, an agency of the New South Wales State Government, on 28 June 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The building covers 1.8 hectares of land and is 183 m long and 120 m wide at its widest point and it is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 m below sea level. Although the roof structures are referred to as shells, they are precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs. Though the shells appear uniformly white from a distance, they feature a subtle chevron pattern composed of 1,056,006 tiles in two colours, glossy white and matte cream. The tiles were manufactured by the Swedish company Höganäs AB which generally produced stoneware tiles for the paper-mill industry. Apart from the tile of the shells and the curtain walls of the foyer spaces. Significant interior surface treatments also include off-form concrete, Australian white birch plywood supplied from Wauchope in northern New South Wales, of the two larger spaces, the Concert Hall is in the western group of shells, the Joan Sutherland Theatre in the eastern group. The scale of the shells was chosen to reflect the internal requirements, with low entrance spaces. The smaller venues are within the podium, beneath the Concert Hall, a smaller group of shells set to the western side of the Monumental Steps houses the Bennelong Restaurant. The podium is surrounded by substantial open spaces, and the large stone-paved forecourt area with the adjacent monumental steps is regularly used as a performance space. The Sydney Opera House includes a number of venues, Concert Hall, With 2,679 seats. It contains the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ, the largest mechanical action organ in the world. Joan Sutherland Theatre, A proscenium theatre with 1,507 seats, until 16 October 2012 it was known as the Opera Theatre. Drama Theatre, A proscenium theatre with 544 seats, used by the Sydney Theatre Company and other dance, Playhouse, An end-stage theatre with 398 seats
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Charles Perkins (Aboriginal activist)
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Charles Nelson Perkins, AO, commonly known as Charlie Perkins, was an Australian Aboriginal activist, soccer player and administrator. Charles Perkins was born in Alice Springs, originally from nearby Arltunga, to Hetti Perkins and Martin Connelly, originally from Mount Isa and his mother was born to a white father and an Arrernte mother, while his father was born to an Irish father and a Kalkadoon mother. Perkins had one full sibling and nine other half-siblings by his mother, between 1952 and 1957, Perkins worked as an apprentice fitter and turner for the British Tube Mills company in Adelaide. He married Eileen Munchenberg on 23 September 1961 and had two daughters, and a son and he was the first Aboriginal man in Australia to graduate from university. While at university he worked part-time for the City of South Sydney cleaning toilets, in 1965 he was one of the key members of the Freedom Ride – a bus tour through New South Wales by activists protesting discrimination against Aboriginal people in small towns in NSW, Australia. This action was inspired by the US Civil Rights Freedom Ride campaign in 1961, the Australian Freedom Ride aimed to expose discrepancies in living, education and health conditions among the Aboriginal population. The tour targeted rural towns such as Walgett, Moree, and they acted to publicise acts of blatant discrimination. This was demonstrated through one of the Freedom Ride activities in Walgett, a local RSL club refused entry to Aborigines, including those who were ex-servicemen who participated in the two World Wars. At one stage during the Rides, the bus was run off the road. On 20 February 1965, Perkins and his party tried to enter the pool at Moree. In response to action the riders faced physical opposition from several hundred local white Australians, including community leaders. These events were broadcast across Australia, and under pressure from public opinion, the Freedom Riders protested again forcing the council to again remove the ban. Even so,5 year old Nancy Prasad was taken to the airport again, in the lead up to the referendum Perkins was manager of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, an organization that took a key role in advocating a Yes vote. The constitutional amendment passed with a 90. 77% majority, in 1969 Perkins began his career in public service as a Senior Research Officer with the Office of Aboriginal Affairs. In 1972, as a servant, he was suspended for alleged improper conduct after he called the Liberal – Country Coalition government in Western Australia racist. In 1981 he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and he served as Chairman of the Aboriginal Development Commission between 1981 and 1984. Throughout his career he was a strident critic of Australian Government policies on indigenous affairs and was renowned for his fiery comments, Perkins served as Secretary until 1988. A year later he became Chairman of the Arrernte Council of Central Australia, in 1993 Perkins was elected commissioner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission for an area of the central Northern Territory
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Melbourne International Film Festival
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The Melbourne International Film Festival is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, MIFF is one of Melbournes four major film festivals, in addition to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Melbourne Underground Film Festival. As of 2013, the festivals Artistic Director is Michelle Carey, Melbourne is a significant city in the history of film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, the worlds first full-length feature film, was filmed in the city. Established in 1952, the Melbourne International Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and has become the most notable event in Australia. MIFF is the largest film festival in both Australia and the hemisphere, and is Australias largest showcase of new Australian cinema. The 2012 festival generated A$8 million for the Victorian economy, as of 2013, the festival is accredited by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Australian Film Institute and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. As of 2013, the festivals CEO is Maria Amato, Carey is the Artistic Director, the 37ºSouth Market is the only international film financing marketplace to take place during a film festival in Australia or New Zealand. As of 2013, the 37ºSouth Market is also the partner of the Londons Production Finance Market for Australia. Since 1962, MIFF has staged a short film competition, as well as feature film award categories. It also presents audience popularity awards for film and documentary. The festivals inaugural award was Best Short Film, but the title was changed to Grand Prix for Best Short Film in 1965, from 1985 onwards, the Grand Prix has been officially presented by the City of Melbourne. The judges for the 2013 MIFF short film awards were Lorin Clarke, Michael Matrenza, Chinese filmmakers withdrew their films from the festival two days before it opened on 24 July 2009. Later, both pro-Chinese and pro-Uyghur activists attempted to disrupt ticketing due to the media coverage, the festival website was hacked soon after the launch of its 2009 program, with information replaced with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans. Victoria Police was placed on alert during the screening of the film, Australias Ambassador to China Geoff Raby was summoned by Chinas Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun to express displeasure about Kadeers attendance at MIFF. In 2000, MIFFs rejection of a film written and directed by Richard Wolstencroft led him to form the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In subsequent years, MUFF has attracted controversy by criticising the content of MIFF, as well as its management, MUFF prioritises and declares that he has a mandate, as a space for exciting and edgy Australian cinema that may not be played at MIFF. Film festival List of film festivals List of short film festivals St Kilda Short Film Festival Cinema of Australia Official website
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Aaron Pedersen
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Aaron Pedersen is an Australian television and film actor of Arrente/Arabana Australian Aboriginal descent. Prior to his career, Aaron Pedersen worked as a journalist with ABC2 at Elsternwick studios in Melbourne. His acting career began in 1994 when he starred in the mini-series Heartland and was voted Bachelor of the Year by Cleo magazine and he came to notice in 1995 where he was co-host of Gladiators Australia, an Australian game show. Pedersens first major acting role was for Wildside in 1997, in 1999, he played Michael Reilly in Water Rats, for two seasons. Other dramatic roles he has been in have included MDA and in The Secret Life of Us, since 2007, he had the leading role in SBSs drama series, The Circuit and also in 2007, began appearing in Channel Sevens drama, City Homicide. He appeared as Cam in ABC Televisions Jack Irish in 2012, Pedersen will play Frank Gibbs, an indigenous war veteran in Season 5 of A Place to Call Home. Aaron Pedersen at the Internet Movie Database Interview regarding his ancestry
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Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Wallace Weaving is a Nigerian-born English-Australian film and stage actor. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, in film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof. Weaving played Anthony Tick Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and his roles as a voice actor include Rex in Babe, Noah in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, and Megatron in the Transformers film series. Weavings awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award, while in England, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeths Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney and he graduated from Sydneys National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, Weaving appeared in the Australian miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty in 1988 and as Geoffrey Chambers in the drama Barlow and Chambers, A Long Way From Home. He starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton, in 1991, Weaving received the Australian Film Institutes Best Actor award for his performance in the low-budget Proof. He appeared as Sir John in the 1993 Yahoo Serious comedy Reckless Kelly, in 1998, he received the Best Actor award from the Montreal Film Festival for his performance as a suspected serial killer in The Interview. Weaving played the enigmatic and evil–minded Agent Smith in the 1999 film The Matrix and he later reprised that role in the films 2003 sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. He was an actor in the cartoon film The Magic Pudding. He garnered additional acclaim in the role of half–elven lord Elrond in Peter Jacksons three-film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Weaving was the main actor in Andrew Kotatkos award-winning film Everything Goes. He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett. Weaving played the role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix trilogy. Actor James Purefoy was originally signed to play the role, but was fired six weeks into filming over creative differences, Weaving reshot most of James Purefoys scenes as V apart from a couple of minor dialogue-free scenes early in the film. Stuntman David Leitch performed all of Vs stunts, Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II. He regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company, in 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City. Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy and had accepted the role based on Michael Bays personal request, in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, though Weaving reprised his role in two sequels, he does not have much personal investment in the Transformers films. In February 2010, Weaving revealed to The Age, Director Michael Bay talks to me on the phone and we were doing the voice for the second one and I still hadnt seen the first one
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Jack Thompson (actor)
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Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career, in 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society. He is best known as an actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as The Club, Sunday Too Far Away. He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film and he was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Thompsons career began with the soap opera Motel, and guest appearances on Homicide and he then took the lead role in spy drama series Spyforce, playing the role of Erskine. He eventually moved into feature film lead roles and he has also acted in television miniseries and appeared as the host of the Channel 7 factual series Find My Family. Thompson was the first nude male centrefold in Cleo magazine in 1972 and he has also appeared in television commercials, including as the face of the Bank of Melbourne for a decade, and for Claytons. Thompson is featured in a series of recordings of Australian poetry, reciting poems by Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C. J. Dennis, Patrick Joseph Hartigan and John OGrady. Interviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald he explains his love of poetry, noting that Poetry is sometimes seen as too arty, born John Hadley Pain, Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was educated at Sydney Boys High School. Thompson was 4 years old when his mother died, leaving his father and he was then sent to an orphanage by his aunt and was subsequently adopted by John and Pat Thompson and changed his surname. The film reviewer Peter Thompson is his adopted brother, Thompson featured in the first episode of the Australian version of Who Do You Think You Are. Thompson married Beverley Hackett in 1963 and the marriage produced his son Patrick Thompson. He then entered into a 15-year polyamorous relationship in the 1970s and 1980s with both Leona King and her sister Bunkie and he stayed with Leona following the birth of his second son, Billy. Thompson used to own Hotel Gearin in Katoomba, Blue Mountains and he sold the hotel in June 2011
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Ryan Kwanten
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Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home, after his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. In 2008, he was cast as Jason Stackhouse in True Blood, Kwanten was born in Sydney, the son of Kris, a Lifeline op shop coordinator, and Eddie Kwanten, a worker at NSW Maritime. Kwanten has two brothers, Mitchell, a musician, and Lloyd, a doctor and he attended St Pauls College in Manly and later earned a degree in commerce from the University of Sydney. Kwanten began acting on the television shows A Country Practice, Hey Dad. in 1997, he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. He eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married, Kwanten had previously guested on the serial as Robbie Taylor in 1994. Moving to the United States, Kwanten was cast as Jay Robertson in Summerland and he appeared in the films Flicka, with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman, and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence, a horror film in which he played the leading role. In 2009, he starred in the film Dont Fade Away with Mischa Barton, in 2010, Kwanten role the voice of Kludd in the animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians, The Owls of GaHoole. Kwanten played the role of Jason Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels and he stars in the psychological thriller Red Hill, which was directed by Patrick Hughes. Kwanten earned one of the roles in the Joe Lynch comedy-horror film Knights of Badassdom along with Steve Zahn, Summer Glau. In October 2010, it was announced that Kwanten will play Charles Manson in an upcoming, yet-to-be-titled biopic, in 2012, he appeared in MysteryGuitarMans video Dual Action. In 2013, Kwanten played Marvel character Eddie Brock/Venom in the short film Truth in Journalism and portrayed Conall in the adventure film Northmen. In 2015 Kwanten voiced the role of Blinky Bill, a Koala in Blinky Bill the Movie based on the childrens book by Dorothy Wall. Ryan Kwanten at the Internet Movie Database From vampires to superheroes, Ryan Kwanten talks Griff the Invisible
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Tasma Walton
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Tasma Walton is an Australian television and film actress. Walton joined local radio station 6GE and trained as a production assistant and she was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art but dropped out after two years. She joined a small Sydney theatre, and in 1995 played the role of Rachel Watson in Home. In 1996, Walton was cast as Dash McKinley in the drama series Blue Heelers. Her character was introduced halfway through Season 3, to win the role of Dash, Walton auditioned three times. Her second one with William McInnes gained her the role, in the audition Schultz yelled at Dash and while some of the other actresses burst into tears, Walton reacted by laughing. In the same year she made her debut in Fistful of Flies. Her last episode of Blue Heelers, The Full Circle screened in mid-1999, Walton stated that she was leaving the series to pursue other acting projects and to be with her then boyfriend in Sydney. She has since appeared in a variety of film and TV productions, including Water Rats, Sea Patrol, The Postcard Bandit and she also won recurring roles in White Collar Blue and BeastMaster. In 2009, Walton joined the cast of City Homicide in the role of criminal profiler. On 27 July 2013, it was announced that Walton had rejoined the cast of Home, Walton was in a relationship with Danny Roberts for seven and a half years until 2004. She began dating Rove McManus in October 2007 and they married in a private ceremony in Broome, Western Australia on 16 June 2009. In September 2013, Walton and McManus announced that they were expecting their first child, the couples daughter was born two weeks prematurely on 16 December 2013. New Theatre Heartless At the 39th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 1997, Walton was nominated for Best Actress at the 3rd AACTA Awards for her role in Mystery Road, but lost against Rose Byrne for The Turning. Tasma Walton at the Internet Movie Database
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Jacki Weaver
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Jacqueline Ruth Jacki Weaver, AO is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook, Weaver emerged in the 1970s as a symbol of the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork, Alvin Purple and Petersen. In 2005, she released her autobiography titled Much Love, Jac, Weaver was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Her mother, Edith, was a migrant from the United Kingdom and she attended Hornsby Girls High School, and won a scholarship to study sociology at university, but instead embarked upon an acting career. Weaver has been working in Australian film, stage and television since the 1960s, the turning point in her career came in 1965 just before she was about to go to university and was cast in the Australian TV series Wandjina. In the mid-1960s, she appeared on the Australian music show Bandstand, in one appearance, she sang a 1920s-style pastiche, the novelty song I Love Onions. Weavers film debut came with 1971s Stork for which she won her first Australian Film Institute Award, in the 1970s, Weaver gained a sex-symbol reputation thanks to her performances in the likes of Alvin Purple. In 2010, Weaver also starred in the Melbourne-set crime thriller Animal Kingdom playing a gang family matriarch, on 10 January 2013, Weaver was again nominated for an Academy Award for her role opposite Robert De Niro in the film Silver Linings Playbook. In April the same year, she was cast in the adaptation of Richard Alfieris play 6 Dance Lessons in 6 Weeks opposite Gena Rowlands. In August 2013, Australians in Film announced that Weaver would be honored with the organizations Breakthrough Award at an exclusive Benefit Dinner held 24 October 2013 in Los Angeles and she also portrayed Dr. Warren in the 2014 comedy crime horror film The Voices. Weaver was married to David Price from 1966 to 1970 before divorcing and marrying Max Hensser in 1975 and she married radio and television presenter Derryn Hinch in 1983, they divorced in 1996, remarried in 1997, and divorced again in 1998. She had a son, Dylan with partner at the time John Walters and she is currently married to actor Sean Taylor. Weaver is a supporter of the Australian Labor Party, and recorded an advertisement in support of them for the 1996 federal election. Jackie Weaver is currently the Patron of Ballarat National Theatre, a volunteer Theatre Group in Ballarat, Australia
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Alex Russell (actor)
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Alexander Alex Russell is an Australian actor. He is best known for starring in the 2012 film Chronicle, Russell grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland, the son of surgeon Dr. Andrew Russell and nurse Frances Russell. He has a brother, Dominic, and a younger sister. He graduated from Rockhampton Grammar School in 2004, going on to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Russell made his debut in the 2010 film Wasted on the Young. He played Billy Nolan in the 2013 Carrie remake, in 2014, he played Sam Atwell in Believe Me. Alex Russell at the Internet Movie Database
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David Gulpilil
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David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM, is an Australian traditional dancer and actor. He is a Yolngu man of the Mandhalpuyngu speech of the Djinba language, as a young boy, Gulpilil was an accomplished hunter, tracker and ceremonial dancer. Unlike many Indigenous people of his generation, Gulpilil spent his childhood in the bush, there he received a traditional upbringing in the care of his family. He attended the school at Maningrida in Australias North East Arnhem Land, when he came of age, Gulpilil was initiated into the Mandhalpuyngu tribal group. His skin group totemic animal is the eagle and his homeland is Marwuyu, after appearing in his first film, he added English to several indigenous languages in which he was already fluent. In 1969, Gulpilils skill as a tribal dancer caught the attention of British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg, Roeg promptly cast the sixteen-year-old unknown to play a principal role in his internationally acclaimed motion picture Walkabout, released in 1971. Gulpilils on-screen charisma, combined with his acting and dancing skills, was such that he became an instant national and international celebrity and he travelled to distant lands, mingled with famous people, and was presented to heads of state. During these travels to promote the film, he met and was impressed with John Lennon, Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, after his high-profile performance in Walkabout, Gulpilil went on to appear in many more films and television productions. He played a role in the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Storm Boy. He dominated the film The Last Wave, with his performance as tribal Aboriginal man Chris Lee and he also had a major role in Baz Luhrmanns Australia. Gulpilil has been a creative influence throughout his life in both dance and film. He initiated and narrated the film Ten Canoes which won a Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Festival, the prize-winning, low-budget film, based on 1, 000-year-old traditional story of misplaced love and revenge, features non-professional indigenous actors speaking their local language. De Heer directed Gulpilil in another film, The Tracker and he sang a role in the sole recording of Margaret Sutherlands 1964 opera The Young Kabbarli. At a conference in Adelaide in the summer of 2000, Gulpilil performed traditional dances and he continues to provide mentorship to them, while lending his support to social and political causes such as the pursuit of tribal land claims for indigenous people. In addition to his career in dance, music, film and television and he has written the text for two volumes of childrens stories based on Yolngu beliefs. These books also feature photographs and drawings by Australian artists and convey Gulpilils reverence for the landscape, people, Gulpilil appeared in an autobiographical stage production, Gulpilil, in March 2004 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004. A documentary about his life, Gulpilil, One Red Blood, was aired on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2003, the title comes from a quote by Gulpilil, “We are all one blood. No matter where we are from, we are all one blood, in 2007, he starred in Richard Friars hour-long independent documentary, Think About It
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David Wenham
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David Wenham is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing, Dilios in 300 and its sequel 300, Rise of an Empire and Neil Fletcher in Australia. He is also known in his native Australia for his role as Diver Dan in SeaChange, Wenham was born in Marrickville, Sydney, the son of Kath and Bill Wenham. He has five sisters, Helen, Anne, Carmel, Kathryn, and Maree. He was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and attended Christian Brothers High School, Wenham started his career as an actor after graduating from Theatre Nepean at the University of Western Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1987. His role as Diver Dan has made the actor something of a sex symbol, although he dislikes thinking of himself as such, a portrait of Wenham by artist Adam Cullen won the Archibald Prize in 2000. Wenham is signed to Storm Model Management in London and he was also seen in Van Helsing playing Hugh Jackmans sidekick, Friar Carl. His character, Dilios, narrated and appeared in the movie 300, minor roles of Wenhams in overseas films include in The Crocodile Hunter as a park ranger, and briefly in Moulin Rouge. Wenham stars in the video for Alex Lloyds single Brand New Day. In 2008s Australia, he reunited with Hugh Jackman playing antagonist Neil Fletcher who seeks to acquire the ranch Jackmans character is employed with, in both Lord of the Rings, Return of the King and 300, Wenhams character is the sole survivor returned from an ill-fated battle. He reprises his role of Dilios in the videogame 300, March to Glory for Sony PlayStation Portable, in 2009 he again took to the stage, this time as the lead actor, Jerry Springer, in the British musical Jerry Springer, The Opera. During its 6-day run at the Sydney Opera House he played in sold-out performances alongside ARIA award winning singer Kate Miller-Heidke, in 2010, Wenham starred as the disgraced Melbourne lawyer Andrew Fraser in the Australian TV series Killing Time. This ten-part series shows Frasers fall from grace as he defends many Melbourne criminals during the 1980s and 1990s and it was shown on TV1 in late 2011. Wenham plays New Zealand detective Al Parker alongside Elisabeth Moss in the 2013 BBC series Top of the Lake, in 2013, Wenham returned to the stage to play the lead role of John Proctor, in the Melbourne Theatre Companys mid-year production of Arthur Millers The Crucible. In 2014, Wenham started as Patrick, in Paper Planes to released in 15 January 2015, in 2015, Wenham voiced the role Jacko a frilled-neck lizard, in Blinky Bill the Movie. He has two daughters, Eliza Jane and Millie, with his girlfriend, Kate Agnew. Wenham read a poem by Rupert McCall at the service for Steve Irwin. The poem was entitled The Crocodiles are Crying, Wenham is a Sydney Swans supporter
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the story is written through the eyes of an exploited Aborigine who explodes with rage. It is based on an actual incident, Keneally has said he would not now presume to write in the voice of an Aborigine, but would have written the story as seen by a European. Dedication, To the Memory of Peter Cady January,1971, the novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1972, losing to John Bergers G. The film won the Best Original Music Score, Best Actress in a Lead Role and it was also nominated for the Palme dOr at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Australian Roots-Rock band The Groovesmiths is also based on the story
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Fred Schepisi
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Frederic Alan Fred Schepisi, AO is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation, Mr. Baseball and Last Orders. Frederic Alan Schepisi was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Loretto Ellen and Frederic Thomas Schepisi and he began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before making his first feature film, The Devils Playground, in 1976. Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devils Playground and Evil Angels, in 1991 his film The Russia House was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. In 2007 he was the Chairman of the Jury at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival, in April 2008 it was announced Film Finance Corporation Australia was providing funding for Schepisis film The Last Man, about the final days of the Vietnam War. It was scheduled to begin filming in Queensland, with Guy Pearce and David Wenham in leading roles, in 2011 Schepisi directed The Eye of the Storm. Filmed in Melbourne, Sydney and Far North Queensland, and based on the novel by Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm stars Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, the story is about children finally understanding themselves through the context of family. In 2012 he directed Words and Pictures starring Juliet Binoche and Clive Owen, Schepisi has also directed a number of music videos, including for the 2008 song Breathe by Kaz James featuring Stu Stone. Asked about the existence of a filmmaker, Schepisi has said. I think were todays circus people and its very hard on your family. Mary travels with me and when everyone was younger and it was possible, I liked them to travel with me, fortunately, Marys an artist, she paints, and often finds inspiration from our locations. Schepisi has seven children and one grandchild. Fred Schepisi has been married three times and has seven children, joan gave him four children, his second wife Rhonda died of cancer, after giving him two more children. His third wife, Mary, whom he married in 1984 and he supports Australia becoming a republic and is a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement. The Devils Playground The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Barbarosa Iceman Plenty Roxanne Evil Angels The Russia House Mr. Baseball Six Degrees of Separation I. Q. com. au biography
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Toomelah (film)
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Toomelah is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Ivan Sen. It was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on 11 May in the Un Certain Regard program, the films story takes place in Toomelah Station, New South Wales. Daniel is a boy living in Toomelah, NSW. Bruce, one of Lindens rivals, is released from prison, I’ve never lived there, but I used to go there all the time… But my mother grew up there and all her family come from there so there’s always been a connection there. As a result, I’ve always wanted to go there and do something, make this film. All of that all together in the screenplay. Before filming, Sen obtained permission to film in Toomelah from the towns elders, Sen shot most of the scenes himself, as many of the actors in the movie are his personal friends and he believed their acting would be restricted if an entire conventional crew did the filming. Official website Toomelah at the Internet Movie Database
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Australian Film Institute
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It is responsible for producing Australias premier annual film and television awards, as of 2011 known as AACTA Awards. The work of the institute is supported by government funding, corporate sponsors, the year 1976 marked the first time that the AFI Awards, which had been given since 1958, were televised. Ten years later, television categories were added to the awards, the AFI is affiliated with the Los Angeles Australian Film & Television Association. In August 2011, AFI formed a professional organisation, the Australian Academy of Cinema. The AFI Research Collection is a significant non-lending, specialist film, the collection operates under the auspices of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologys School of Media and Communication in conjunction with the Australian Film Institute. Cinema of Australia Culture of Australia AFI website AFI Awards 2010 coverage @ Mediasearch AFI History
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by a jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries, nominees are automatically inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, a growing world-class body of Asia-Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the President of the Academy, the eighth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held in Brisbane on 11 December 2014. The FIAPF Award, The International Federation of Film Producers Associations determines the winner of the award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region. The UNESCO Award, The United Nations Educational, Scientific, the Jury Grand Prize, The Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards can, at its discretion, present a further award
