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Children's television series
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They can sometimes run during the early evening, allowing younger children to watch them after school. The purpose of the shows is mainly to entertain and sometimes to educate, in the United States, early childrens television was often a marketing branch of a larger corporate product, such as Disney, and it rarely contained any educational elements. This practice continued, albeit in a much toned-down manner, through the 1980s in the United States, in 1992, teen comedies and a Today show weekend edition were first to displace the cartoon blocks on NBC. Starting in September 2002, the networks turned to their affiliated cable cartoon channels or outside programmers for their blocks, the other two Big Three television networks soon did the same. Infomercials replaced the cartoon on Fox in 2008, the Saturday cartoons were less of a draw due to the various cable cartoon channels being available all week starting in the 1990s. With recordable options becoming more prevalent in the 1990s with Videocassette recorder then its 21st century replacements of DVDs, DVRs, FCC rule changes in the 1990s regarding the E/I programming and limitation on kid-focus advertising made the cartoons less profitable. Another possible contributor is the rising divorce rate and the following childrens visitation pushed more quality time with the kids instead of TV watching. On September 27,2014, the last traditional Saturday network morning cartoon block, Vortexx, Childrens television series can target a wide variety of key demographics, the programming used to target these demographics varies by age and gender. Few television networks target infants and toddlers under two years of age, in due to widespread opposition to the practice. Childrens programming can be targeted toward persons 2 to 11 years of age, in practice, this is divided into the preschool demographic. Preschool-oriented programming is more overtly educational. In a number of cases, such shows are produced in consultation with educators, adaptations of illustrated childrens book series are one subgenre of shows targeted at younger children. Shows that target the demographic of persons 6 to 11 years old focus primarily on entertainment, most childrens television series targeting this age range are animated, and many often specifically target boys, girls or sometimes both. PBS has had greater success with its educational programming block. The teen demographic targets viewers 11 to 17 years of age, live-action series that target this demographic are more dramatic and developed, including teen dramas and teen sitcoms. In some cases, they may contain mature content that is usually not permissible on shows targeting younger viewers. Animated programming is not generally targeted at this demographic, cartoons that are aimed at teenagers generally feature more crude humor than those oriented toward younger children. S, regulations that allows teen-oriented programs to be counted as educational but not be subject to restrictions on advertising for childrens programs. One of the issues that is brought up is that of gendered stereotypes within childrens television
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Richard Connolly (composer)
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Richard Connolly is an Australian musician, composer and former broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He is noted for his collaborations with Australian poet James McAuley and his compositions have been successful internationally, both in the Christian field and in the secular field. His hymns have been composed to accommodate and adorn the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, from 1946 to 1950, Connolly pursued theological studies for the priesthood in Rome. A few months before his ordination, he abandoned his studies and returned to Australia, at that time, Connolly was a member of the Holy Spirit parish at North Ryde. In 1955, he was introduced to McAuley by Fr Ted Kennedy, Kennedy asked Connolly to compose hymns to sing at various points during the mass. Thus began a partnership between McAuley and Connolly. Their subsequent musical collaboration during the 1950s and 1960s contributed significantly to the contemporary Australian hymnody and their compositions were first released in a collection titled Hymns for the Year of Grace in 1963. Many of the published in both collections are still widely sung across all Christian denominations in Australia and abroad. In 1956, Connolly had joined the ABC, and by 1960 had gone to work in the ABC Education department, in 1967 he joined the Radio Drama and Features Department, becoming Features Editor. In 1971 he undertook a Churchill fellowship in Italy, Radio France, Bayerischer Rundfunk, during this time, he also composed music for the BBC TV series, The British Empire. He returned to Australia and was appointed Head of Radio Drama and Features. In his acceptance speech he said that the hymns he had made with James McAuley were the centrepiece of my work and, of all the things that I have made, apart from my family. A few of his tunes have particularly Australian names. Collins Liturgical Publications, E. J. Dwyer Pty Ltd NSW, J. Stove, Visions of Ceremony, An interview with Richard Connolly, Quadrant, October 2013, pp. 109–113
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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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ABC (Australian TV channel)
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ABC is a national public television network in Australia. Launched on 5 November 1956 it is the responsibility of the ABCs television division, commercial station TCN-9 Sydney was the first to broadcast in Australia, soon followed by the ABCs own ABN-2 Sydney and later ABV-2 in Melbourne. Six stations, three in Melbourne and three in Sydney, were in operation in time to cover the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The channels first television broadcast was inaugurated by prime minister Robert Menzies on 5 November at the Gore Hill studios in Sydney, although radio programmes could be broadcast nationally by landline, television relay facilities were not put 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. A purpose-built television studio opened in Sydney on 29 January 1958—replacing temporary sound studios used since ABC-TVs inception, in the same year, technical equipment was also moved to permanent locations, while main transmitters were introduced to Melbourne and Sydney in 1957 and 1958 respectively. Australian Broadcasting Corporation series which debuted in 1956 included TV Channell, starting in 1957 the two ABC stations then in operation each produced one live drama presentation each month, which would be kinescoped for broadcast in the other city. Weekly current-affairs programme Four Corners began in 1961, followed in the year by Profiles of Power. Direct relays between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were also established in 1961, replacing temporary microwave relays as a means of simultaneously airing programmes across multiple stations. Videotape equipment, allowing the sharing of footage with much greater ease, ABC-TV was one of the first television networks in Australia to embrace the rocknroll revolution of the late 1950s, most notably with Six OClock Rock, hosted by Johnny OKeefe. In 1967, the weeknightly television current-affairs programme This Day Tonight was launched on ABC-TV, teletext services were introduced to ABC-TV in 1983 to allow hearing impaired viewers access to closed captions. Nationwide, successor to This Day Tonight, was replaced in turn by a new, hour-long, having proved unsuccessful, it reverted to a state ABC News bulletin at 7,00 pm, with a state-based edition of The 7.30 Report following afterwards. Lateline and Media Watch also launched in the 1980s, the year 2001 saw the launch of a new logo to celebrate the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Australia. The logo was modified to a three-dimensional metallic design, the channels idents featured elements – fire, leaf and ice, and the slogan was updated to Everyones ABC. The idents also featured the silver ring that morphs into the ABC logo and this however did not last, as later in 2003, the channels idents were modified to feature everyday Australians. In 2005, The ABC have switched from the Supertext logo to their own Closed Captioning logo, on 19 December that year, the channels idents were revamped featuring a modified ABC logo transforming to a television. These idents were also carried onto ABC2, which launched in the same year, further cementing the change in identity was the change from the slogan Theres more to television to It begins with 1. After concerns in some sections of the media that the 43-year-old Lissajous curve brand was to disappear completely, june 2010 saw ABC1s high definition digital transmission terminated, to be replaced with a fourth channel, ABC News 24
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ABC2
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ABC2 is a national public digital television multichannel in Australia. Launched on 7 March 2005, it is the responsibility of the Australian Broadcasting Corporations television division, the channel broadcasts a range of original content supplemented with repeats of popular ABC TV programmes, magazine shows, and sport. Between the hours of 5am and 7pm daily the channels bandwidth is used for the ABC Kids channel for young children, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation stated that it wished to run up to four multichannels at different times of the day or alternatively offer a high-definition television service. The corporation claimed that up to A$100 million would be needed to prepare for these services, in August 2001 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched the ABC Kids channel, with Fly TV following in November 2001. The two multichannels, available only through television, broadcast a range of programming targeted at younger. Funding issues meant that, in June 2003, ABC Television closed ABC Kids, unlike its predecessors, ABC2 launched on 7 March 2005 on channel 21, independent of government funding, instead running on a budget of A$3 million per year. The first programme in the schedule was an episode of Landline – although scheduled to begin at 6. 25am. The channel was inaugurated by former Minister for Communications, Senator Helen Coonan. Weekly video gaming and technology programme Good Game was launched on 19 September 2006, similarly in the same year, programmes produced included Australia Wide, Short and Curly, dig tv and Late Night Legends. Genre restrictions imposed by the Australian government on digital multichanneling were lifted along with the media ownership laws passed through the Australian parliament on 18 October 2006. Previously limited in the subjects it could cover, ABC2 was henceforth able to carry shows identified as comedy, drama, national news, sport or entertainment. At 12, 00pm on 8 February 2008 ABC2 was rebranded with a new slogan and yellow-coloured logo, complementing the new ABC TV logo, the channel also moved from channel 21 to channel 22. With a new controller, ABC2 continued as a channel in the daytime. In 2011, ABC2 Kids changed logos, becoming ABC4 Kids, in 2010, as part of a revamp of the entire ABC Television network, ABC2 hired its very first television controller, Stuart Menzies. ABC1 also hired its very first television controller, Brendan Dahill, 2010–present, Stuart Menzies ABC2 is required by charter to meet certain programming obligations. Although it has a focus on comedic and lifestyle programming, it also presents documentaries and educational programmes, news and current affairs, childrens shows, drama. ABC2 also launched the show, ABC News Breakfast, on 3 November 2008. The program is now simulcast on ABC and ABC News 24, ABC2 also previously ran ABC Asia Pacific News, which is produced for the Australia Network
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ABC Kids (Australia)
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ABC Kids is the name of the Australian Broadcasting Corporations part-time channel, broadcasting shows between the hours of 5am and 7. 30pm in each local Australian market for children 6 and under. ABC Kids shares the same bandwidth as ABC2 which broadcasts outside of ABC Kids scheduled hours, in 1991, all childrens programming on the ABC was organised into a daily broadcasting block under the name ABC For Kids. This new programming block featured a range of programming ranging from preschoolers to young children, the logo featured six blocks with the top row lettered A, B and C, and the bottom row featuring an apple, a bee and a carrot beneath their respective letter. In 2001, the ABC For Kids timeslot was rebranded as ABC Kids, a new logo was also introduced, featuring a solid green Lissajous curve with ABC Kids in lowercase blue letters in front. The service was inaugurated by former ABC Managing Director, Jonathan Shier. The ABC launched the channel without additional funding, hoping that its success would prompt an additional government grant, ABC Kids was broadcast from 6, 00am to 6, 00pm, with the remaining broadcasting time occupied by its sister service Fly TV. Fly TV was launched on 1 November 2001 to feature programming aimed at teenagers and young adults and broadcast a 6-hour block from 6, 00pm to 12, 00am, which was repeated again from 12, 00am to 6, 00am. In addition to their availability on free-to-air television, the ABC Kids/Fly TV channel was available on Austar channel 14. The ABC Kids/Fly TV channel was discontinued on 30 June 2003 in the first of a series of cuts to save around A$25 million a year for the ABC, however, the ABC Kids brand still remained throughout this period on the ABCs daily childrens broadcasting block. After the close of the ABC Kids/Fly TV channel, programming for younger Fly TV viewers was integrated into the ABC Kids broadcasting block. In 2009, two blocks of childrens programming were launched as ABC For Kids, running from 8, 00am to 11, 00am and 2, 55pm to 4. From 4 December 2009, a new childrens block, ABC For Kids on 2 was launched on ABC2 in 2009-2011. Some ABC2 programmes had to be cancelled or relocated to other channels, the classic ABC For Kids logo from 1991 was rendered in 3D when the ABC For Kids name was revived. On 2 May 2011, the all childrens programming was removed from the main ABC channel and was divided between the ABC2 childrens block and ABC3. The ABC2 childrens block was rebranded as ABC4 Kids and was refocused as a channel for preschoolers sharing the same bandwidth of ABC2 between 6am and 7pm. A new logo based on the ABC3 logo was also introduced, Broadcasting of the channel was rescheduled to begin at 5am instead of 6am on 7 July 2014. On 2 March 2015, the name of the channel was changed to ABC Kids, official website shows A to Z
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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Blue Peter
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Blue Peter is a British childrens television programme, shown currently live on the CBBC television channel. A significant part of British culture, it first aired in 1958 and is the longest-running childrens TV show in the world. Although the show has a title and theme, it is a magazine/entertainment show containing viewer and presenter challenges. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time, the current presenters are Barney Harwood, Lindsey Russell and Radzi Chinyanganya. The show is produced mainly in a studio, but there is also a garden, often referred to as the Blue Peter Garden. The programme has featured a number of pets, currently a tortoise called Shelly makes appearances from time to time. Most programmes are broadcast live, but usually include at least one filmed report, There will also often be a demonstration of an activity in the studio, or a music or dance performance. Between the 1960s and 2011 the programme was made at BBC Television Centre, and often came from Studio 1 and this enabled Blue Peter to include large-scale demonstrations and performances within the live programme. From the September 2007 series, the programme was broadcast from a fixed set in Studio 2. However, from 2009 the series began to use the studios once more. The show is famous for its makes, which are demonstrations of how to construct a useful object or prepare food. Trace also used the line And now for something completely different, time is also often given over to reading letters and showing pictures sent in by viewers. Over 4,000 editions have been produced since 1958, Blue Peter was first aired on 16 October 1958. The Blue Peter is used as a signal, indicating that the vessel flying it is about to leave. Hunter Blair also pointed out that blue was a favourite colour. The first two presenters were Christopher Trace, an actor, and Leila Williams, winner of Miss Great Britain in 1957, the two presenters were responsible for activities which matched the traditional gender roles. As broadcasting historian Asa Briggs expressed it in 1995, Leila played with dolls and they were supported on occasion by Tony Hart, an artist who later designed the ship logo, who told stories about an elephant called Packi. It was broadcast every Friday for fifteen minutes on BBC TV, over the first few months more features were added, including competitions, documentaries, cartoons, and stories
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Don Spencer
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Donald Richard Don Spencer OAM is an Australian childrens television presenter, singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician. He had a role on Play School on both the Australian version and the United Kingdom version, the only presenter to work on both versions. In March 1963 his first single, Fireball – the theme tune to a UK TV science fiction series, in 2002 Spencer established the Australian Childrens Music Foundation. Spencer married Julie Horsfall, they have two children, Dean, a musician, and Danielle Spencer, an actress and singer, donald Richard Spencer was born on 22 March 1941 and raised in Tamworth. Spencer attended Tamworth High School, he played hockey as a teenager, at 17 he left Australia and travelled to Africa where, in his 20s, he trained with the Kenyan hockey team trying out for the Olympics. A chance meeting with locally-born, singer-songwriter, Roger Whittaker, in Nairobi inspired Spencer to buy a guitar and start his musical career. In the early 1960s Don Spencer moved to London and became a solo singer-guitarist, supporting various acts as The Rolling Stones, the Four Seasons, The Hollies and Marianne Faithfull. His first single, Fireball, was released on the His Masters Voice label – it was the theme song for the television science fiction series, Fireball XL5. In March 1963 it reached No.32 on the UK Singles Chart, Other singles included Busy Doing Nothing, Worried Mind, Marriage Is for Old Folks, and a cover of The Beatles song In My Life. In 1964 he covered Brent Edwards version of Johnny Madara and David Whites track, Spencer presented his own teenage pop show, Gangway. for seven years, then co-hosted Pop-In. He later appeared in TV comedies, Face It with Ronnie Barker, returning to Australia, he appeared on TVs Bandstand, and acted in Sons and Daughters, Return to Eden, and in the 1974 film Barry McKenzie Holds His Own. In 1977 Spencer wrote his single, Whats a Pommie. The track was covered by fellow Australians Rolf Harris, and Col Elliott, in 1968 Spencer became a presenter on Australia childrens TV series, Play School, in 1972 he also appeared on the United Kingdom version of the same title. He continued on both versions for 17 years, the male presenter to appear in both. One of his well-known phrases was old magazines which he used to effect when describing items used to make something and he continued on the Australian version until 1999. At the APRA Music Awards of 1995, Spencers track, Have a Beaut Day, was nominated for Most Performed Childrens Work, in 2002 Spencer established the Australian Childrens Music Foundation as its inaugural CEO. In 2008 Spencer was awarded for Excellence in Community Support presented by Support Act Limited, in December 2010 the ACMF sponsored a supergroup, Peacebeliever, which recorded a cover version of Plastic Ono Bands 1969 single, Give Peace a Chance, for the charity. Alongside Spencer fellow vocalists were Katie Noonan, Blue King Brown, Tim Freedman, Newton Faulkner, Music can give kids really positive self expression and is a great tool for improving literacy levels
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John Hamblin
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John Hamblin * is an English Australian childrens television presenter and actor, best known for his lengthy stint presenting Play School from 1970 to 1999. He published a memoir in 2008 and he was lead in short lived legal drama Case for the Defence in which he played the title role. He was a presenter of Play School and became the second most prolific presenter, Hamblin played the role of Michael Chamberlain in The Disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain. John Hamblin at the Internet Movie Database
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John Waters (actor)
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John Russell Waters is an English-born film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor, Russell Waters, John Waters has been in the industry for over 40 years, and was part of the Australian childrens television series, Play School, for almost 20 years. Waters was born in London, England, Waters is an accomplished musician, and since 1992 has toured many times with his one-man show Looking Through a Glass Onion. Co-written with friend and musician, Stewart DArrietta, the show is a tribute to John Lennon featuring numerous examples of Lennons music, words, in addition to many Australian tours of this show it also played six months in the West End, London. In 2014, it played 120 performances at the Union Square Theatre in Manhattan and he was in the original Australian production of Theyre Playing Our Song, which opened on 23 August 1980 at the Theatre Royal in Sydney. It starred Waters and Jacki Weaver, with Rhonda Burchmore as one of the Inner Voices, an Australian cast recording of the show was later released by Festival Records. In 2000, Waters appeared in a production of The Sound of Music, in which he played the part of Captain von Trapp, in 2005, Waters starred in David Williamsons play Influence as shock jock Ziggi Blasko. The play was performed in Sydney during March/April 2005 and in Melbourne in June/July 2005, in 2008, he played The Narrator in Richard OBriens Rocky Horror Show at Star City Casino, Sydney. Waters has toured Australia in an acclaimed role alongside Brett Tucker in The Woman in Black. In 2010 he starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Swimming Club, in 2013 Waters starred in The Addams Family musical as Gomez Addams. The production premiered in Sydney on 24 March 2013 and closed on 9 June 2013, many Australians still remember Waters best from his nearly 20-year stint on the Australian childrens series Play School, appearing from 1972 until 1991. During his tenure with Play School, he narrated various childrens video trailers for ABC-TV, among his best known television roles is that of the brooding Sergeant Robert McKellar in the 1974-76 television series Rush. Waters also appeared in the 1983 Australian miniseries All the Rivers Run as Brenton Edwards, in 2002, he had a role in the short-lived drama, Young Lions. He played Perry Luscombe in Fireflies, which lasted for one season, on ABC-TV in 2004. Waters joined the cast of All Saints in June 2006 as Mike Vlasek and he remained with the show until its cancellation in late 2009. In 2010, Waters was a guest star in Sea Patrol as Sgt, in 2012, Waters starred in the ABC TV mini-series, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, adapted from the novel by English writer Fergus Hume. He currently appears on the Logie-award-winning television series Offspring, which completed filming its season in 2013 and has been renewed for a further two seasons. From September 2015, Waters joined the cast of the season of the ABC TV series Rake
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Sesame Street
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Sesame Street is a long-running American childrens television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its content, and images communicated through the use of Jim Hensons Muppets, animation, short films, humor. The show has undergone significant changes throughout its history, with the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a childrens television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a shows educational effects were studied, the show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or co-productions, in 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street, and by the shows 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was the childrens television show in the United States. A1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old, in 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children. As of 2014, Sesame Street has won 167 Emmy Awards and 8 Grammy Awards—more than any other childrens show, Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a television show that would master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them. The program premiered on television stations on November 10,1969. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory, initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in over 120 countries, Sesame Street has evolved from its initial inception. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become an American institution, the cast and crew expanded during this time, with emphasis on the hiring of women crew members and the addition of minorities to the cast. The shows success continued into the 1980s, Sesame Streets curriculum has expanded to include more affective topics such as relationships, ethics, and emotions. After the turn of the 21st century, Sesame Street made major structural changes, for example, starting in 2002, its format became more narrative and included ongoing storylines. After its thirtieth anniversary in 1999 and due to the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, upon its fortieth anniversary in 2009, the show received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards. In April 2017, Sesame Street will introduce a new puppet called Julia with Autism to the show, and will be voiced by Stacey Gordon, who started Puppet Pie and has a son on the autism spectrum. From its first episode, Sesame Street has structured its format by using a visual style, fast-moving action, humor
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Neighbours
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Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985, Seven decided to commission the show following the success of Watsons Sons and Daughters, which aired on the network. Although successful in Melbourne, Neighbours underperformed in the Sydney market, the show was immediately bought by rival network Ten. After taking over production of the show, the new network had to build replica sets because Seven destroyed the originals to prevent its rival from obtaining them, Ten began screening Neighbours on 20 January 1986, taking off where the previous series left off and commencing with episode 171. Neighbours has since become the longest running series in Australian television and in 2005. On 11 January 2011, Neighbours moved to Tens digital channel, the shows storylines concern the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Neighbours began with three families created by Watson – the Ramsays, the Robinsons and the Clarkes, Watson said that he wanted to show three families who are friends living in a small street. The Robinsons and the Ramsays had a history and were involved in an ongoing rivalry. Pin Oak Court, in Vermont South, is the real cul-de-sac that has doubled for Ramsay Street since 1985, all of the houses featured are real and the residents allow the production to shoot external scenes in their yards. The interior scenes are filmed at the Global Television studios in Forest Hill, through its entire run in Australia, Neighbours has been screened as a twenty-two-minute episode each week night in an early-evening slot. In Australia it is currently broadcast each weeknight at 6,30 pm on Eleven, the show is produced by FremantleMedia and has been sold to over sixty countries around the world, making it one of Australias most successful media exports. Neighbours was first screened in the United Kingdom in October 1986 on BBC1 where it achieved popularity among British audiences in the late 1980s and 1990s. In 2008, it moved to the UKs Channel 5, Neighbours was created in the early-to-mid-1980s by Australian TV executive Reg Watson. Watson decided to create an opera after working on Crossroads and seeing how successful it. He had already created such successful Australian made soap operas as The Young Doctors, Prisoner and Sons, Watson proposed the idea of making a show that would focus on more realistic stories and portray teens and adults who talk openly to each other and solve their problems together. Watson, who worked for the Grundy production company, decided to make his appeal to both Australia and Britain. In 2005, Darren Devlyn and Caroline Frost from the Herald Sun reported that Watson then took his idea to the Nine Network in 1982, former Network Nine chief executive Ian Johnson commented that it was one of the biggest missed opportunities in his twenty-four years at the network. He added I remember it being discussed, but Im not exactly sure what went against it
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The Wiggles
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The Wiggles are an Australian childrens music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1991. The current members of the group are Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, the original members were Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album, Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Page, Cook, and Fatt retired, and were replaced by Gillespie, Pryce, Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into its creative and production aspects. In 1991, Field was inspired to create an album of music based upon concepts of early childhood education, and enlisted Cook, Page. They began touring to promote the album, and became so successful, the group augmented their act with animal characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog, as well as the character Captain Feathersword, played by Paul Paddick since 1993. They travelled with a group of dancers, which later grew into a larger troupe. The groups DVDs, CDs, and television programs have been produced independently since their inception and their high point came in the early 2000s, after they broke into the American market. The group was consolidated in 2005. They were listed at the top of Business Review Weeklys top-earning Australian entertainers four years in a row, and earned A$45 million in 2009. In 2011, the recession hit The Wiggles, as it had done for many Australian entertainers, they earned $28 million. The Wiggles have enjoyed almost universal approval throughout their history, and they have earned several Platinum, Double Platinum and Multi-Platinum records, as well as sold 23 million DVDs and 7 million CDs, and have performed, on average, to one million people per year. The group has earned multiple Australasian Performing Rights Association and Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards. Anthony Field and Jeff Fatt were members of The Cockroaches, a Sydney pop band known for their good-time R&B material and several singles recorded by independent labels during the 1980s. In 1988, Fields infant niece, who was the daughter of Cockroaches founder and band member Paul Field, died of SIDS, and the group disbanded. Anthony Field enrolled at Macquarie University in Sydney to complete his degree in childhood education. Murray Cook, also a student, was the guitarist in the pub rock band Bang Shang a Lang before enrolling at Macquarie. Greg Page, who had been a roadie for and sang with The Cockroaches during their years, had enrolled in Macquarie to study early childhood education on Fields recommendation
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Stop motion
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Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation, not all stop motion requires figures or models, many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect. Stop motion using objects is sometimes referred to as object animation, the term stop motion, related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen, stop-motion. Stop motion is often confused with the time lapse technique, where photographs of a live surrounding are taken at regular intervals. Time lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at speed, time appears to be moving faster. Stop motion animation has a history in film. It was often used to show objects moving as if by magic, in 1902, the film Fun in a Bakery Shop used the stop trick technique in the lightning sculpting sequence. In 1907, The Haunted Hotel is a new stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton, segundo de Chomón, from Spain, released El Hotel Eléctrico later that same year, and used similar techniques as the Blackton film. In 1908, A Sculptors Welsh Rarebit Nightmare was released, as was The Sculptors Nightmare, italian animator Roméo Bossetti impressed audiences with his object animation tour-de-force, The Automatic Moving Company in 1912. The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz, who animated The Beautiful Lukanida, The Battle of the Stag Beetles, The Ant, one of the earliest clay animation films was Modelling Extraordinary, which impressed audiences in 1912. December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins 54 episodes of Miracles in Mud to the big screen, also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion. She would release her first film in 1917, an adaptation of William Shakespeares Romeo, in the turn of the century, there was another well known animator known as Willis O Brien. His work on The Lost World is well known, but he is most admired for his work on King Kong, oBriens protege and eventual successor in Hollywood was Ray Harryhausen. After learning under OBrien on the film Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen would go on to create the effects for a string of successful and memorable films over the next three decades. These included The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Jason, in a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schuberts Military March
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Computer animation
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Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation refers to the moving images. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are used for stylistic, low bandwidth. Sometimes, the target of the animation is the computer itself, Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques used in traditional animation with 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. It can also allow a single graphic artist to such content without the use of actors, expensive set pieces. To create the illusion of movement, an image is displayed on the monitor and repeatedly replaced by a new image that is similar to it. This technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved with television and motion pictures, for 3D animations, objects are built on the computer monitor and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations, separate objects and separate transparent layers are used with or without that virtual skeleton, then the limbs, eyes, mouth, clothes, etc. of the figure are moved by the animator on key frames. The differences in appearance between key frames are calculated by the computer in a process known as tweening or morphing. For 3D animations, all frames must be rendered after the modeling is complete, for 2D vector animations, the rendering process is the key frame illustration process, while tweened frames are rendered as needed. For pre-recorded presentations, the frames are transferred to a different format or medium. The frames may also be rendered in real time as they are presented to the end-user audience, low bandwidth animations transmitted via the internet often use software on the end-users computer to render in real time as an alternative to streaming or pre-loaded high bandwidth animations. To trick the eye and the brain into thinking they are seeing a moving object. With rates above 75-120 frames per second, no improvement in realism or smoothness is perceivable due to the way the eye, at rates below 12 frames per second, most people can detect jerkiness associated with the drawing of new images that detracts from the illusion of realistic movement. Conventional hand-drawn cartoon animation often uses 15 frames per second in order to save on the number of drawings needed, to produce more realistic imagery, computer animation demands higher frame rates. Films seen in theaters in the United States run at 24 frames per second, for high resolution, adapters are used. Early digital computer animation was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, other digital animation was also practiced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. An early step in the history of animation was the sequel to the 1973 film Westworld
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Jay Laga'aia
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Jay Lagaaia is a New Zealand-Australian actor and singer. He is best known internationally for his role as Captain Typho in the films Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars and he currently appears in an Australian Childrens TV Series called Jays Jungle which has been broadcast since 2015. He played a role of Draco in three episodes of the television series Xena, Warrior Princess. He is also known for his stage productions such as The Lion King, Lagaaia played the role of Judas in a 1994 production of Jesus Christ Superstar in New Zealand. On 9 October 2007, Lagaaia released an album, Come Dance. On 24 December 2008, Lagaaia performed on Carols by Candlelight, Lagaaia narrated each of the characters on the childrens show Larry the Lawnmower, which ran for 2 seasons starting in 2008. In November 2009, it was confirmed that Lagaaia had joined the cast of Australian soap opera Home and Away, Lagaaia released his second CD for children, I Can Play Anything, in August 2010. In 2008 Lagaaia took on the role as Ambassador for the Touch By Olivia Foundation Charity, in 2012 he was appointed as the new Ambassador for the Queensland Kindergartens. In 2012 Lagaaia two albums, a Christmas album entitled Christmas at Jays Place and a nursery rhyme album called 10 in the Bed and he also provided the music for Scholastics picture book Baby Elephant Walk. He is set to return to the stage to play the role of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the 2013-14 New Zealand and Australia national tour of the acclaimed Broadway musical. Performances begin 17 September 2013, where he will perform alongside Jemma Rix at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, from May 2014 the production is expected to transfer to Melbourne, where it first premiered in 2008. Lagaaia was born and raised in Mangere, South Auckland, New Zealand he is now a dual and he has 6 brothers and sisters and 2 half brothers. One of his brothers, Frank Lagaaia, was a member of the ARIA award-winning band. Jay is also a member of the International Costuming group the 501st Legion as a member of the Terror Australis Garrison, films TV series Mini-Series As himself Official website Jay Lagaaia at the Internet Movie Database
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Justine Clarke
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Justine Clarke is an Australian actress, singer and television host. She has been acting since the age of seven and has appeared in some of Australias best-known TV shows. She is also a film and stage actor, and won the Best Actress Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina in 2006 for her role in independent film Look Both Ways. At eleven she played the role of Brigitta in the stage musical, clarkes first significant acting role was as the character Anna Goanna in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The same year she appeared in the TV series The Maestros Company and she was one of several Home and Away cast-members to star in a stage musical about the soap, which toured the UK in 1991. In 1991, she formed a Dolly Parton inspired band called the Honky Tonk Angels, in the late 90s she was a backing vocalist in the Sydney band Automatic Cherry, that also featured The Cruel Sea guitarist James Cruickshank. The band released the album Slow Burner in 1997, Clarke is also a jazz vocalist and cabaret singer, popular on the Sydney club circuit. A popular childrens entertainer and presenter on the childrens television program Play School, Clarke has releases albums. Titles include I Like to Sing, Songs to Make You Smile, Great Big World, clarkes film Turning April in 1996 was followed by Blackrock with Heath Ledger in 1997. More recently she has starred in the films Danny Deckchair and Look Both Ways, after three episodes of the series Wildside, she played Dr Samantha OHara in 21 episodes of All Saints. In 2009, she starred as the character in the television series for Showcase Tangle. In 2010, Clarke starred in the short film Peekaboo, in 2012, she appeared in the television series Woodley. In 2013 and 2014, she starred in the television series The Time of Our Lives playing Bernadette, in 2015, she plays as Eve on House Husbands House Husbands Clarke has three children named Josef, Nina and Max with her husband, actor Jack Finsterer
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
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The Teddy Bears Picnic is a song consisting of a melody by American composer John Walter Bratton, written in 1907, and lyrics added by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy in 1932. It remains popular as a song, having been recorded by numerous artists over the decades. Kennedy lived at Staplegrove Elm and is buried in Staplegrove Church, Taunton, Somerset, local folklore has it that the small wooded area between the church and Staplegrove Scout Hut was the inspiration for his lyrics. Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy wrote the now familiar lyrics for it in 1932, after Bratton wrote The Teddy Bears Picnic, however, many people felt that the composer plagiarized portions of the melody. Music aficionados pointed out in particular that the refrain echoed the theme from Robert Browne Halls 1895 Death or Glory March, nevertheless, charges were not filed and Brattons song still has the same tune it had in 1907. Arthur Pryors Band made the works first disc recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, an early UK recording was made by the Black Diamonds Band for Zonophone records in 1908. The first vocal version was recorded in 1932 on BBC Radio by Henry Hall with his BBC Orchestra, as a two-step, it appears briefly in the musical score by Robert Israel to accompany Buster Keatons 1926 silent film The General. The song was used as background music in the Looney Tunes cartoons. The song appears in the adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as the backing music during the Bazooko Circus scene. The Saturday show was later named No School Today, the song can be briefly heard in the 1968 Doctor Who episode The Invasion. The wartime BBC sitcom Dads Army uses the song in an episode from 1970 called The Big Parade, in 1983 Green Tiger Press turned Kennedys lyrics into a childrens book, with illustrations by company co-founder Sandra Darling. Original printings included a 7 record, with the Bing Crosby recording on the A side, the Val Rosing/Henry Hall version is perhaps the best-known in the UK and was featured in the Dennis Potter drama The Singing Detective from 1986. The song features prominently in Peter Greenaways 1986 film A Zed & Two Noughts, in 1989, a short film entitled The Teddy Bears Picnic was released, featuring two teddy bears named Benjamin and Wally attending the said picnic. Ann Stevens performed the song, which served as the theme song. Two other films based on the film were released called The Teddy Bears Christmas and The Teddy Bears Scare, elmyra Duff sings a version in the episode of the same name of Tiny Toon Adventures. Composer Grant Kirkhope concluded that some of his music from the video game Banjo-Kazooie had been based on Teddy Bears Picnic, the Val Rosing/Henry Hall version was used as background music in a 2006 Microsoft Xbox commercial. A reversed sample from the song was included by Boards of Canada in the track A is to B as B is to C from their album Geogaddi, Teddy Bears Picnic is sung to Boog in Open Season as a lullaby. Later on in the movie, Elliot, sings his revision of the song, shaw also sings the song while searching for Boog after Boog accidentally breaks into Shaws cabin
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Missy Higgins
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Melissa Missy Morrison Higgins is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White, On a Clear Night and The Ol Razzle Dazzle, Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won Best Pop Release for Scar. In 2005, she was nominated for seven awards and won five. Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007 and her third album, The Ol Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012. As of August 2014, Higgins first three albums had sold over one million units. Higgins fourth studio album, OZ, was released in September 2014 and consists of versions of Australian composers. Alongside her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights, in 2010 she made her acting debut in the feature film Bran Nue Dae and also performed on its soundtrack. Higgins was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to Christopher Higgins, an English-Australian general practitioner, and Margaret and her sister, Nicola, is seven years older, and brother, David, is six years older. Bored with practice, she gave up playing piano at that time, hoping for more freedom, she urged her parents to send her to Geelong Grammar School, an independent boarding school attended by her siblings. At Geelong she took up the piano again, this time playing jazz including performing with her brother Davids group on weekends and she was introverted and found that piano practice helped her cope with living at boarding school. At 15, she wrote All for Believing for a music assignment. The assignment earned an A and she performed her song in front of classmates and she approached a Melbourne record company and was told that they wanted more than one song. She wrote more songs and worked with the Kool Skools project, in 2001, her sister Nicola entered All for Believing on Higgins behalf into Unearthed, radio station Triple Js competition for unsigned artists. The song won the competition and was added to the play list. Two record companies showed an interest in Higgins—Sony and Eleven and she signed with Eleven, partly because they agreed that she would not be made into a pop star and partly because they were happy for her to take time off for a backpacking holiday. Higgins manager is Elevens John Watson, who also manages rock band Silverchair, Watson later disclosed that Missys the only time in my career I knew after 90 seconds I really wanted to sign her. She toured Australia, supporting Pete Murray and John Butler Trio and her four-track single Scar was released in July 2004 and debuted at No.1 on the ARIA Charts. Her first album, The Sound of White, was released in September, also produced by Porter, it sold over 500,000 copies
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Carrie Bickmore
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Carrie Bickmore is an Australian talk show and current affairs Gold Logie award-winning television and radio presenter. Bickmore currently hosts The Project on Network Ten and Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network, Bickmore was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1980, but moved to Perth, Western Australia with her family at an early age. Bickmore attended the Anglican girls school Perth College and then later attended Curtin University of Technology where she studied journalism and she moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 2001 to pursue a career in media. In 2005, she married Greg Lange, who worked in the media industry. She gave birth to a boy, Oliver, in 2007, Lange died after a long battle with brain cancer on 27 December 2010. On 8 October 2014, Bickmore announced that she was pregnant with her child with partner Chris Walker on The Project. She gave birth to a girl, Evie, on March 18,2015, Bickmore started her career as a newsreader on 92. 9FM in Perth where she began as an emergency fill-in for a sick colleague. After this she was appointed as a newsreader for the station. In 2001 Bickmore became the afternoon newsreader for radio station Nova 100 in Melbourne, Bickmore was a 2005 Best News Presenter finalist in the Australian Commercial Radio Awards. Bickmore, Rebecca Leahy and Michael Colling accepted the award for Best Community Service Project - Metro, in 2007, Bickmore was appointed the breakfast newsreader on Hughesy & Kate on Nova 100. In August 2009, she announced that she would be leaving Nova 100 to focus on The 7pm Project and her last day was 25 September 2009. In October 2012, Bickmore and Charlie Pickering were part of radio show The Breakfast Project which aired nationally for three weeks, both critics and fans were impressed with the show sparking rumours that Bickmore and Pickering were going to become regulars on Nova 100 Melbourne. In November 2013, Bickmore returned to Nova 100 to read the one last time and to say farewell to long-standing breakfast radio duo Hughesy. Bickmore recalled working with the pair at the time her husband was dying. The hardest fucking time of my life, she said, paying tribute to the support Hughes, in January 2017, Southern Cross Austereo announced that Bickmore and Tommy Little will host Carrie & Tommy across the Hit Network from 3pm. In 2006, Bickmore made her start in television on the variety show Rove Live, often the news stories related to actual events, but ended in a twist with the punchline. A running joke throughout the segment was Bickmores quirky introductions in which she added a quip, often playing off social trends, music and popular culture, for example, im Carrie Bickmore and dont you wish your girlfriend was hot like me. In 2007, Bickmore returned to the show with an important role
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Guy Sebastian
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Guy Theodore Sebastian is a Malaysian-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003, and has been a judge on Australias The X Factor and he represented Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in 5th place. Sebastian has released eight top ten albums, including two number ones, the first seven all gained either platinum or multi-platinum certification. He has also achieved twenty one top twenty singles, with twelve reaching the top ten and he is the only Australian male artist in Australian chart history to achieve six number one singles, and places third overall for all Australian acts. Eight of his singles have been certified multi-platinum, including the 9× platinum Battle Scars and his debut single Angels Brought Me Here was the highest selling song in Australia last decade. With 51 platinum and eight gold certifications and combined album and single sales of over 3.8 million in Australia, he has the highest certifications and sales of any Australian Idol contestant. Sebastian has worked with a number of notable American musicians, including Brian McKnight, Robin Thicke, Steve Cropper, John Mayer, Jordin Sparks, Eve and Lupe Fiasco. Battle Scars, a collaboration with Fiasco, spent 20 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 71, Battle Scars also reached number two in Norway and New Zealand. Sebastian has reached the top ten in New Zealand with an album and six singles, in 2015 his Eurovision song charted in the top 50 in five European countries. During his career Sebastian has received 27 ARIA Award nominations, winning four including Best Pop Release, Sebastian has sung at many notable events, including performing for Pope Benedict XVI, Oprah Winfrey and Queen Elizabeth II. He has a commitment to charity, and is currently an ambassador for World Vision Australia. Guy Sebastian was born in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia on 26 October 1981 and they met while Ivan was studying geology in India and they married a year later. Sebastian is the second of four sons and his older brother Ollie was born in India, and his younger brothers Chris and Jeremy were born in Australia after the family migrated there in 1988, when he was six years old. They lived in Melbourne, Victoria for several years before moving to Adelaide. As a child Sebastian took violin lessons, he would learn to play guitar, drums and piano. He attended Paradise Community Church, an Assemblies of God church and one of the largest churches in Australia and he also sang with the Paradise Community Church Youth Conference Planetshakers, performing both lead and backup vocals for their 2002 and 2003 conferences and albums. Sebastian attended Kings Baptist Grammar School and he then began studies in Medical Radiation at the University of South Australia, but left to pursue a career in music. He taught vocals at Temple Christian College and other schools while also working as a recording engineer
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Singin' in the Rain
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Singin in the Rain is a 1952 American musical comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald OConnor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s. The film was only a modest hit when first released and it topped the AFIs Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, Don Lockwood is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer, and stuntman. Don barely tolerates his vain, cunning, and shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont, though their studio, Monumental Pictures, Lina is convinced they are in love, despite Dons protestations otherwise. At the premiere of his newest film, The Royal Rascal, Don tells the crowd an exaggerated version of his life story, including his motto, Dignity. His words are humorously contradicted by flashbacks showing him alongside his best friend Cosmo Brown, to escape from his fans after the premiere, Don jumps into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden. She drops him off, but not before claiming to be a stage actress, later, at a party, the head of Dons studio, R. F. Simpson, shows a short demonstration of a picture. To Dons amusement, Kathy pops out of a mock cake right in front of him, furious at Dons teasing, she throws a real cake at him, only to hit Lina right in the face. Don is smitten with Kathy and searches for her for weeks, while filming a love scene, Lina tells him that she had Kathy fired. Don finally finds Kathy working in another Monumental Pictures production and she confesses to having been a fan of his all along. The production is beset with difficulties, including Linas grating voice, an exasperated diction coach tries to teach her how to speak properly, but to no avail. Don, Kathy and Cosmo come up with the idea to turn The Duelling Cavalier into a musical called The Dancing Cavalier, Cosmo, inspired by a scene in The Duelling Cavalier where Linas voice was out of sync, suggests that they dub Linas voice with Kathys. R. F. approves the idea but tells them not to inform Lina about the dubbing, when Lina finds out, she is infuriated. She becomes even angrier when she discovers that R. F. intends to give Kathy a screen credit, Lina threatens to sue R. F. unless he orders Kathy to continue working uncredited as Linas voice. R. F. reluctantly agrees to her demands, as a clause in her states that she can sue whenever denied a role of her choosing. The premiere of The Dancing Cavalier is a tremendous success, when the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, Don, Cosmo, and R. F. tell her to lip sync into the microphone while Kathy, hidden behind the curtain, sings into a second one
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Dan Sultan
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Daniel Leo Dan Sultan is an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter-guitarist. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues & Roots Album for his second album, at the 2014 ceremony he won Best Rock Album for Blackbird, which had reached number four on the ARIA Albums Chart. Daniel Leo Sultan was born in 1983 and spent much of his life in Fitzroy. His father is of Irish descent who was a lawyer and worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service and his mother, Roslyn Sultan, is an indigenous Australian of the Arrernte and Gurindji people. When Sultan was three the family visited his mothers lands in Yuendumu in the Tanami Desert, soon after they returned to Melbourne. When a teenager his parents separated and, with his mother, Sultan started playing guitar at four and wrote his first song at ten. His mothers friend gave him an old, clapped-out electric guitar and, in 2000 he met Scott Wilson, a guitarist, at a Williamstown pubs karaoke night and the pair began writing tracks together. Wilson later recalled What struck me at first was that he could play piano and guitar, after a while playing together he said, Can I sing this one. I said, Do you know the words, a lot of people can play guitar. Not many can sing like that, Sultan released his debut solo album, Homemade Biscuits, with most tracks written by Wilson or co-written by Sultan and Wilson. It was produced by Wilson at Flowerpress Studios, Newport, and True Form Services, other performers on the album were Lazare Agnekis, Neil Gray, Elijah Maiyah, Lochile McKlean and Ben Wicks. He received the assistance of John Butlers Seed program. Sultan won the Single Release of The Year at the 2007 Deadly Awards for Your Love Is Like a Song and they also performed at two concerts of the same name, the Sydney Festival in January 2008 and Queensland Music Festival in August 2009. Sultan and his band have performed at Australian music festivals, sultans second album, Get Out While You Can, peaked in the ARIA Albums Chart top 100 in late May 2010 – six months after it was issued. It reached No.1 on the independent Australian charts and was a Triple J feature album, Sultan describes his music as country soul rocknroll. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues & Roots Album for Get Out While You Can, in October that year, he also won Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Blues & Roots Album at the Australian Independent Record Awards. In February 2014 Sultan supported Bruce Springsteens Melbourne and Hunter Valley gigs on the United States artists Australian tour, in April Sultan released Blackbird, which reached No.4 on the ARIA Albums Chart and spent thirteen weeks in the Top 50. At the ARIA Awards in November that year Blackbird won Best Rock Album, also in November he issued an extended play, Dirty Ground, which reached the ARIA Albums top 100
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The Wheels on the Bus
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The Wheels on the Bus is an American folk song dating no later than 1939 written by Verna Hills. It is a childrens song in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. It has a repetitive rhythm, making the song easy for a large number of people to sing. It is based on fellow traditional British song Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, the song is also sometimes sung to the tune of Buffalo Gals, as in the version done by Raffi. The song is now popular for children in several other languages. Normally followed by The wipers on the bus go swish swish, the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep. In 2002 British Madonna impersonator Mad Donna had a hit with the song, featuring a version of Madonnas Ray of Light over which the childrens song was sung. The single reached #17 in the United Kingdom and also made the charts elsewhere in Europe
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Bernard Fanning
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Bernard Fanning is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010. Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, Fanning was taught the piano by his mother at an early age and he dropped out to pursue a music career, after meeting Ian Haug in an economics class. Fanning joined Haug, John Collins, and Steven Bishop, who had recently formed Powderfinger, after Bishop left and guitarist Darren Middleton joined, the band released five studio albums in fifteen years and achieved mainstream success in Australia. During Powderfingers hiatus in 2005, Fanning began his music career with the studio album Tea & Sympathy. Powderfinger then reunited in 2007 and released two albums before disbanding in late 2010. While Powderfingers style focuses on rock, Fannings solo music is generally described as a mixture of blues. Fanning plays guitar, piano, keyboards and harmonica, both when performing solo and also with Powderfinger, often speaking out against Australian political figures, Fanning has donated much of his time to philanthropic causes. He is an advocate for Aboriginal justice in Australia, Fanning was born in Brisbane on 15 August 1969. He was raised, alongside two brothers and a sister, in an Irish Catholic family in the inner Brisbane suburb of Toowong, the death of one of Fannings brothers to cancer would be the inspiration for Vulture Streets Since Youve Been Gone. Fannings mother began teaching him to piano as a young child. Fanning attended St. Josephs College, Gregory Terrace and began writing his own music at the age of 15, Fanning has described these early works as terrible, but notes that he enjoyed writing and arranging them. After graduating from St Josephs, Fanning entered the University of Queensland to study journalism, however and he left university at the age of 19 to pursue a music career. Fanning first met Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug in a University of Queensland economics class in 1989, Haug was the lead guitarist and lead singer. On discovering Fannings singing abilities, Haug replaced himself with Fanning as lead singer, Haug stated that It was a big thing to convince the others that we needed a singer. They were like, Youre OK, and I was like and we can do better than that. In 1992, current guitarist Darren Middleton was invited to join Powderfinger by Fanning and Haug, Middleton accepted the offer and became the fifth member, joining Jon Coghill who had replaced Bishop as drummer. The line-up of Fanning, Middleton, Haug, Collins, throughout the late 1990s, Powderfinger rose to prominence throughout Australia, receiving several accolades and achieving highly successful record and concert ticket sales
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Delta Goodrem
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Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, she enrolled in dancing, acting, singing and she began her career as a child actress, starring in various television shows and rose to prominence in 2002 in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker. This made Goodrem the first and only artist to have five singles from a debut album. Innocent Eyes is the album of the 2000s decade in Australia. Her second studio album, Mistaken Identity, was created while she was suffering from cancer and it became her second number-one album and brought her two more number-one singles, including Out of the Blue. In 2007, Goodrem released Delta, her third number-one album and her fourth studio album, Child of the Universe, produced the successful single Sitting on Top of the World. In 2016, her album, Wings of the Wild, became her fourth number-one album on the ARIA Albums Chart, while giving her another number-one single. Goodrem has a total of nine singles and 17 top-ten hits on the ARIA Singles Chart. She has sold eight million albums globally and won three World Music Awards,9 ARIA Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and several other awards. From 2012 to 2013, she served as a coach on The Voice Australia and she returned to The Voice Australia in 2015. Goodrem was born on 9 November 1984, to Denis and Lea and she has a younger brother, Trent, who is an Australian rules football player with the Central District Football Club in the South Australian National Football League. Goodrems parents named her Delta after Joe Cockers song Delta Lady and she appeared in numerous commercials for companies such as Optus and Nesquik, and had several minor roles in episodes of successful Australian television shows including Hey Dad. A Country Practice, and Police Rescue, while residing at Glenhaven, a suburb of Sydney, Goodrem attended the Hills Grammar School in neighbouring Kenthurst, from kindergarten until Year 11. She is known to return to her alma mater for visits, at the age of thirteen, Goodrem recorded a five-song demo CD, financed through her television work. It was sent to the Sydney Swans and they passed it onto Glenn Wheatley, interested in Goodrems potential as a recording artist, Wheatley signed Goodrem to an artist development deal with independent label, Empire Records. The album has yet to surface, Goodrem preventing its release years later via civil action in 2004, the album and proposed second single A Year Ago Today were pushed aside as a result, allowing Goodrem and Sony to re-evaluate her future musical direction. In 2002, Goodrem took up the role as shy school girl and aspiring singer Nina Tucker in the popular soap Neighbours, which helped re-launch Goodrems music career. The piano-based ballad Born to Try, co-written by Audius Mtawarira, premiered on the show and reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart, Born to Try was certified triple Platinum in Australia for sales of over 210,000 copies
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early 19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor, the poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. The English lyrics have five stanzas, although only the first is widely known and it has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7666. This song is performed in the key of C Major. The song is in the domain, and has many adaptations around the world. Additional variations exist such as from 1896 in Song Stories for the Kindergarten by Mildred J. Hill, an adaptation of the song, named Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth, was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy. It is included on his first 1967 album Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spocks Music From Outer Space, a version using synonyms from Rogets Thesaurus exists. Ah. vous dirai-je, maman Alphabet song Baa, Baa, a European Union, government-funded education project to collect lullabies from across Europe - includes samples in seven languages. SoundBeep Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with two Instrument versions, piano and kalimba, audio segment from BBC Radio 4 Womans Hour
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Emma Watkins
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Emma Watkins is an Australian actress and singer, best known as the first female member of the childrens group The Wiggles. Watkins started ballet when she was four and she saw The Wiggles perform Irish dancing and later studied other styles of dance, including Irish, jazz, hip hop, tap, and contemporary. She attended The McDonald College of Performing Arts, won a scholarship at the Sydney Film School. Watkins earned a degree in Media Arts in Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. She has taught children dance since she was in high school and she has also performed in Bollywood films, played drums and percussion instruments, was learning Australian Sign Language in 2012, and was crowned Miss Granny Smith Apples in 2009. In 2010, Watkins began performing with The Wiggles, first as Fairy Larissa and then as Wags the Dog, Dorothy the Dinosaur and she used her film skills during tours with the group, providing them with video and editing services. In May 2012, The Wiggles announced that Watkins would replace founding member Greg Page as the Yellow Wiggle and the first female Wiggle. The original members stated that they chose Watkins because she was the most qualified for the job, because of her popularity, she starred in the childrens program on ABC Kids titled Emma. Consisting of episodes that are five long, that premiered on 1 June 2015. In March 2015, Watkins and fellow Wiggles performer Lachlan Gillespie publicly acknowledged their romantic involvement, in May 2015, the couple announced their engagement. They married on 8 April 2016 at Hopewood House in Bowral in New South Wales, Watkins grandfather Victor was a ballroom dancer, and her grandmother Edith sang. Her father Richard is an accountant, and her mother Kathryn works in the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education and she has a sister named Hayley. Dial E for Emma Wiggles website
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I'm a Little Teapot
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The song was originally written by George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939. Clarence Kelley and his wife ran a school for children, which taught the Waltz Clog. This routine, however, proved too difficult for the students to master. To solve this problem, George Sanders wrote The Teapot Song, both the song and its accompanying dance, the Teapot Tip, became enormously popular in America and overseas. American tea culture Tea for Two, an earlier North American song referring to tea, from 1925
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Kurt Fearnley
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Kurt Harry Fearnley, OAM is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track. He has a disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification and he focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000,2004,2008 and 2012 Games, Fearnley finished his Paralympic career with silver and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Fearnley was born on 23 March 1981 in the New South Wales town of Cowra as the youngest of five children and he was born with sacral agenesis, he is missing certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. At the time of his birth, doctors did not believe he would live longer than a week and he grew up in the small New South Wales town of Carcoar. At school, he took part in all sports including athletics and he won his first athletics medal in the high jump. He took up racing at the age of 14 and took it to an elite level at the age of 17. After leaving Blayney High School, he moved to Sydney to train and he lives in Newcastle and is a teacher. He is 1.4 metres tall and weighs 50 kilograms, in 1997, Fearnley was a member of the Western Region Academy of Sport and by the 2000 Sydney Paralympics was representing Australia. At these Games, Fearnley won two medals in the 800 m and 4×100 m relay events. He also represented his country in the sport of Mens 1500 m wheelchair. He went to the 2002 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham, England, at the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 5th in the demonstration sport of Mens 1500 m wheelchair. Following this he won two medals in the 5000 m T54 and marathon T54 events at the 2004 Athens Paralympics. At the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships in Assen, Netherlands, he won three gold medals and one bronze medal. Participating in his third Paralympics in Beijing, he won a medal in the marathon T54. On 30 September 2009, Fearnley conducted a training climb of Sydneys Centrepoint Towers 1,504 fire stairs in 20 minutes, taking them two at a time. While far short of the 6m 52s record for the annual charity climb, in 2009, he won his fourth New York City marathon title, his third consecutive title in the Chicago marathon and victories in Seoul, Paris, London and Sydney
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Rachael Coopes
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Rachael Coopes is an Australian actress, best known for her character Sigourney in the SBS cult parody series Life Support. Coopes has appeared as a guest actor in television series including White Collar Blue. She was a regular in the ABC comedy Dogs Head Bay. She returned in 2007 and appeared in the series of McLeods Daughters as Ingrid Marr. In 2009, Coopes hosted Money Box webisodes for UBank, in 2011, she played the character Flatmate Wanted in Balls of Steel Australia. Coopes appeared on Dance Academy, as a teacher, and is currently a regular presenter of the ABCs Play School. In her early years, Coopes trained with the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney and she has been teaching at ATYP since her return to Australia. Rachael Coopes at the Internet Movie Database
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Annabel Crabb
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Annabel Crabb is an Australian political journalist and commentator who is the ABCs chief online political writer. In addition, she has authored two books covering events within the Australian Labor Party, Crabb completed high school at the Wilderness School in Medindie, South Australia. She then studied at University of Adelaide, graduating in 1997 with Bachelor of Arts and she briefly became involved in student politics, holding the position of womens officer at the Universitys Student Association. Originally intending to enter Law, she changed direction and undertook a cadetship at The Advertiser in 1997, during this time she wrote her first book, Losing It, The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition. During this time, Crabb served as a commentator for the ABCs coverage of the 2007 Australian federal election, Crabb resigned from her job with The Sydney Morning Herald in November 2009 to take up a position with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working as its chief online political writer. Crabb is also one of the presenters of The Drum on the 24-hour news channel, from mid-2012, Crabb and radio personality Merrick Watts appeared in the ABC1 light-entertainment television program Randling, as part of a team called the West Coast Odd Sox. Crabb is a political commentator with the ABC and Fairfax. Were acts of dismantlement or shutting down, ending the carbon and mining taxes, in a May 2016 study of Abbotts successor Malcolm Turnbull she wrote that he struggled as Opposition leader, his major flaw being that he overleapt his colleagues in an attempt to build something. Of his Prime Ministership she wrote, Turnbull is more upbeat, more expansive, less disciplined, following the election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016, Crabb asked Where will Angry White Man strike next. And wrote, A kind of madness has come over the world, Crabb does not support reform of the controversial Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 limitations on free speech. She describes Immigration Minister Peter Dutton as having a commitment to free speech which fully covers the right of everyday Australians to make racist remarks, Crabb supports ammending Australian law to recognised same-sax partherships as marriage. She has described businesses and service providers who refuse to cater to same-sex weddings as homophobes, Crabb has worked extensively in the media and is contributor to major print publications, public talks and television and radio. She returned to her role on the panel for the 2013 series, in 2012, Crabb began hosting her own TV program Kitchen Cabinet on ABC2, an informal interview program with Australian politicians over a meal prepared by both Crabb and her guest. In November 2014, Crabb started a podcast with Leigh Sales called Chat 10 Looks 3 and it is independent of the work they do for other media outlets and is an opportunity for them to talk about books, movies, television, the media and culture. Crabb is married to Adelaide lawyer Jeremy Storer, son of GP Brian Storer and they have a daughter, Audrey, a son, Elliott, born in February 2010, and a daughter, Kate, born in December 2012. In 2009 her Quarterly Essay, titled Stop at Nothing, The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull, in 2011 Crabb received an Eisenhower Fellowship. Losing It, The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition, Quarterly Essay 34, Stop at Nothing, The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull. Rise of the Ruddbot, Observations from the Gallery, ISBN 978-0-857-98426-5 Crabb, Annabel and Sharpe, Wendy
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Leigh Sales
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Leigh Peta Sales is an Australian author and journalist. She is the host of the Australian television channel ABCs flagship news and she was a journalist with the Nine Network before joining the ABC. She is a graduate of Deakin University and Queensland University of Technology, Sales has held positions in national radio current affairs and was NSW political reporter covering the 1999 and 2007 state elections and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Sales presented Lateline on Monday, Thursday and Friday nights and she has been the ABCs national security correspondent from 2006 until 2008 and was based in Sydney.30. In January 2013, Sales hosted the 70-minute Townterview—a mix of a town hall and it is significant for being the final such program for Clinton as Secretary of State. Her first book, Detainee 002, The Case of David Hicks, was published in 2007 by Melbourne University Publishing, the book covers Hicks case as well as a detailed explanation of the Bush administrations detainee policy in the War on Terror and the Australian governments cooperation. Her essay, On Doubt, was published in 2009 as part of MUPs series Little Books on Big Themes which has featured Germaine Greer, David Malouf, Blanche dAlpuget and Barrie Kosky. She has written for The Monthly and her work has appeared in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age. Sales writes a blog called Well-readhead, mostly about books. It includes a list of ten interesting things to read, watch or listen to and it appears on both the ABCs The Drum website and News Limiteds The Punch. In November 2014, Sales started a podcast with Annabel Crabb called Chat 10 Looks 3 and it is independent of the work they do for other media outlets and is an opportunity for them to talk about books, movies, television, the media and culture. Sales is married to Phil Willis and they have two children
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Kate Ceberano
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Catherine Kate Ceberano AM is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres and she has also achieved success as a songwriter, with the hit Pash receiving a gold sales certification in 1998. Ceberano was the director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2012,2013 and 2014. Ceberano was born in Melbourne, Australia to an American father of Filipino descent and her father is karate master Tino Ceberano, from Hawaii. Her maternal forebears were some of the earliest settlers and government officials in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, Ceberano first came to prominence singing back-up vocals with Melbourne, Australia band The Models. The band produced a Top 5 album in 1985 called Out of Mind, Out of Sight, Im Talking are acknowledged as the band who pioneered New York-style art pop in Australia during the Jurassic Period of Pub Rock. The group was managed by Ken West, now known for being a co-founder of the Big Day Out events, the groups debut album, Bear Witness, included three top ten singles and achieved a platinum sales certification. Ceberano won the Best Female Vocalist award at the 1986 Countdown Awards, after the debut album, the group broke up and Ceberano went solo. It was then, in the late 80s, that she earned a reputation for her soul, jazz, radio stations labelled her as having one of the greatest voices our music industry has ever produced. Ceberanos first solo album was the live recording Kate Ceberano and her Septet, the following year, she collaborated with Wendy Matthews on the album Youve Always Got The Blues, which was the soundtrack to the ABC Television show Stringer. The album peaked at No.7 on the ARIA charts, in 1989, Ceberano released her album Brave. At the 1989 ARIA awards, she won the ARIA Award for Best Female Artist, at the end of 1990, she received three Mo Awards for Jazz Performer, Female Rock Performer and Contemporary Concert Performer of the Year. Ceberano contributed Nature Boy to the The Crossing soundtrack, before releasing the albums Like Now in 1990, in 1992, she joined the cast of the Australian national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, in which she performed the role of Mary Magdalene. The album was the album in Australia in 1992, certified four times platinum. Two singles were released from the album, including Everythings Alright, Ceberano won a Logie Award for Most Popular Music Video in 1993 for Everythings Alright. I Dont Know How To Love Him was the second single, Ceberano travelled to New York and recorded a number of songs which were to appear of an album with the working title of Globe. The album was scrapped by label Elektra Records, however, a number of recordings from this session appears on her 1996 album Blue Box. Ceberano followed this success with her own late-night cabaret-style show on ABC TV called Kate Ceberano and Friends, in 1996 she released her next solo album, Blue Box, which also went gold and saw her nominated for another Best Female Artist at the ARIA awards
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Caitlin Cooper
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Caitlin Cooper is an Australian footballer, who currently plays for Western Sydney Wanderers in the Australian W-League. She has previously played for Central Coast Mariners and Canberra United, Caitlin was the inaugural captain for the Mariners and she made her debut against Melbourne Victory on Saturday,25 October 2008. As captain of the Mariners, Caitlin has a record of 4 wins and 6 losses, Canberra United W-League Championship, 2011–12 W-League Premiership, 2011–12 Scores and results list Australias goal tally first. Caitlin Cooper at Soccerway Caitlin Cooper – FIFA competition record
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Michelle Heyman
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Michelle Pearl Heyman is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Canberra United in the W-League in Australia. Heyman played for Sydney FC during the 2008–09 season of the W-League, Heyman signed from Sydney FC in the off-season to join Central Coast Mariners. Heyman scored a double on debut for the Central Coast Mariners, against her old club, Heyman won the Golden Boot award for most goals scored during the League season along with the Player of the year award in the W-League 2009. In 2010, Heyman signed with Canberra United, on 9 July 2015, Heyman signed with US side Western New York Flash. Heyman made her debut for the team in 2010. She was part of the 2014 AFC Womens Asian Cup squad that finished the tournament as runners-up, Heyman was chosen to take part in the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup. Scores and results list Australias score first, Canberra United W-League Premiership, 2011–12, 2013–14 W-League Championship, 2011–12,2014 Julie Dolan Medal,2009 W-League Golden Boot,2009, 2011–12 Heyman is openly lesbian. Michelle Heyman – FIFA competition record Matildas player profile Western New York Flash player profile
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Dami Im
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Dami Im is a Korean-Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist performing artist. Im is known for achieving the highest ever Eurovision score for Australia, Im emigrated to Australia from South Korea with her family at the age of nine. She won the season of The X Factor Australia and subsequently received a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After winning The X Factor, Im released her debut and winners single Alive and this was followed by the release of her self-titled second studio album, which debuted at number one the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association. Im became the first X Factor Australia contestant to follow up a one single with a number one album on the ARIA Charts. Ims third studio album, Heart Beats, was released in 2014 and it produced the top-twenty hits Super Love and Gladiator. Dami Im was born in Seoul on 17 October 1988 to Lee Hae-yun, an opera singer. She is the elder of two children, Im began learning the piano at the age of five, and she taught herself to sing by recording herself copying her favourite artists. Aged nine, Im emigrated to Australia with her mother and younger brother Kenny because their parents thought they would have more opportunity growing up in Australia and they stayed with their uncle in Brisbane, while her father stayed in South Korea to earn money to support them. Ims parents now live together, spending part of the year in Australia, aged 11, Im began studying at the Young Conservatorium of Music program at Griffith University. She was a national finalist in the Yamaha Youth Piano Competition, and won the Nora Baird Scholarship, Im attended John Paul College in Daisy Hill, Queensland and graduated in 2005. She never sang while at school and would accompany the choir on piano. In 2009, Im graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in a Bachelor of Music and she subsequently completed a Masters of Arts degree in contemporary voice at Griffith University. Prior to entering The X Factor, Im was a music, Im had a short career as a gospel singer in Korea, performing at Christian youth camps. In 2010, she released her studio album, Dream. In July 2011, Im re-released the album with two tracks, which were both sung in English. On 5 December 2011, Im released a Christmas extended play called Snow & Carol, on 9 July 2012, Im released her second extended play, Intimacy, which consisted of five tracks. In 2013, Im successfully auditioned for the season of The X Factor Australia
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