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Bagot, Northern Territory
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Bagot is a small northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It was named after John Tuthill Bagot, who was the Chief Secretary in the Strangways ministry of South Australia from 1868-1870, Bagot is also the name of the hundred which comprised Darwin and the surrounding area. Bagot Community, the largest Aboriginal community in Darwin is located in the suburb of Bagot
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Bagot
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Melville Island (Northern Territory)
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Melville Island, known in the Tiwi language as Yermalner, is in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is west of the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land and north of Darwin, the largest community/town on the island is Milikapiti, pop. The second village is Pirlangimpi, pop,440,27 km west of Milikapiti, on the west coast of Melville Island. About 30 more people live in five family outstations, at 5,786 square kilometres it is just outside the 100 largest islands in the world, but is the second biggest island in Australia, after Tasmania. Only 55 metres south of its tip is Irrititu Island. Together, Melville Island and Bathurst Island are known as the Tiwi Islands and it is said that the first European to sight the island was Abel Tasman in 1644, although this is now disputed. King named it for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, first lord of the Admiralty, shortly after this, the British made the first attempt to settle Australias north coast, at the short-lived Fort Dundas. Fort Dundas Tiwi Land Council Tiwi Art Tourist Information
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Tiwi Islands
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Northern Territory
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The Northern Territory is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, to the north, the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Despite its large area—over 1,349,129 square kilometres, the Northern Territorys population of 244,000 makes it the least populous of Australias eight major states and territories, having fewer than half as many people as Tasmania. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory begins over 40,000 years ago when Indigenous Australians settled the region, makassan traders began trading with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory for trepang from at least the 18th century onwards. The coast of the territory was first seen by Europeans in the 17th century, the British were the first Europeans to attempt to settle the coastal regions. After three failed attempts to establish a settlement, success was achieved in 1869 with the establishment of a settlement at Port Darwin. Today the economy is based on tourism, especially Kakadu National Park in the Top End and the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in central Australia, the capital and largest city is Darwin. The population is not concentrated in regions but rather along the Stuart Highway. The other major settlements are Palmerston, Alice Springs, Katherine, Nhulunbuy, residents of the Northern Territory are often known simply as Territorians and fully as Northern Territorians, or more informally as Top Enders and Centralians. With the coming of the British, there were four attempts to settle the harsh environment of the northern coast. The Northern Territory was part of colonial New South Wales from 1825 to 1863, except for a time from February to December 1846. It was part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911, under the administration of colonial South Australia, the overland telegraph was constructed between 1870 and 1872. A railway was built between Palmerston and Pine Creek between 1883 and 1889. The economic pattern of raising and mining was established so that by 1911 there were 513,000 cattle. Victoria River Downs was at one time the largest cattle station in the world, gold was found at Grove Hill in 1872 and at Pine Creek, Brocks Creek, Burrundi, and copper was found at Daly River. On 1 January 1911, a decade after federation, the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia, alfred Deakin opined at this time To me the question has been not so much commercial as national, first, second, third and last. Either we must accomplish the peopling of the territory or submit to its transfer to some other nation. In late 1912 there was growing sentiment that the name Northern Territory was unsatisfactory, the names Kingsland, Centralia and Territoria were proposed with Kingsland becoming the preferred choice in 1913
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Thomas Baines with Aborigines near the mouth of the
Victoria River.
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Letters Patent annexing the Northern Territory to South Australia, 1863
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The northern coast of Australia is on the left with Melville Island in the lower right.
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Tiwi people
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The Tiwi people are one of the many Indigenous groups of Australia. Nearly 2,500 Tiwi live in the Bathurst and Melville Islands, the Tiwi Islanders are famous for their great musicians, art and sports players. Notable Tiwi people include David Kantilla, Austin Wonaeamirri and Adam Kerinaua, the stolen generation saw many indigenous people brought to the Tiwi Islands but not of direct Tiwi descent. Tiwi art and language are markedly distinct from those of nearby Arnhem Land, compared with Arnhem Land art, Tiwi art often appears to be abstract and geometric. With its strong patterns and use of colour, Tiwi art is considered very attractive, Tiwi art is used to tell stories, and the hatch patterns represent friendships within the community. Many art experts worldwide have studied Tiwi art and have analysed the meaning of Tiwi symbols, Tiwi art forms an integral part of the oral tradition passing on history and wisdom through generations. English is taught at schools as a language, and the Tiwi communicate principally in their own language. They make these colours from natural pigment in the earth. When a person dies their name becomes taboo, hunting for food is still an important part of Tiwi life. On land, they hunt for wallaby, lizards, possums, carpet snakes, pig, buffalo, flying foxes, bandicoot, turtle and seagull eggs, from the sea they hunt for turtle, crocodiles, dugong and fish. Dancing or yoi as they call it, is a part of everyday life, Tiwi inherit their totemic dance from their mother. Narrative dances are performed to depict everyday life or historical events, the land on both islands is heavily forested. Music forms a part, of all aspects of life on the Tiwi islands. Some of these songs have been recorded and archived, there was a performance of Tiwi women singing recently in different important venues in Australia. The Tiwi strong womens group are working on a collaborative project to conserve their music. Research has led to a revival of some of the old songs, as these songs have been sung for thousands of years, it is with the strictest sensitivity that this research must be carried out. The music of the Tiwi women strong womens group is being preserved and revived currently on Bathurst, some old anthropological investigations of relationships on the Tiwi islands are referenced below. The Tiwi of North Australia, Case studies in anthropology, Nicholas Hewett, Arnold R. Pilling, Jane Carter Goodale, Holt. Goodale conducted life history interviews with Tiwi women, publishing Tiwi Wives in 1971 in which she examined how social change was reflected in ritual, aboriginal Art Online Google Books, Portrait of A People Jane C
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Ceiling of a Tiwi Island art gallery and studio, 2011.
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Australian rules football
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The main way to score points is by kicking the oval-shaped ball between the two tall goal posts. The team with the score by the end of the match wins unless a draw is declared. During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field, the primary methods are kicking, handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled, for example, throwing the ball is not allowed and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctive feature of the game is the mark, where players anywhere on the field who catch a ball from a kick are awarded possession, possession of the ball is in dispute at all times except when a free kick or mark is paid. Players can tackle using their hands or use their body to obstruct opponents. The game features frequent physical contests, spectacular marking, fast movement of players and the ball and high scoring. The sports origins can be traced to matches played in Melbourne, Victoria in 1858. Its annual Grand Final is the highest attended club championship event in the world, the sport is also played at amateur level in many countries and in several variations. The games rules are governed by the AFL Commission with the advice of the AFLs Laws of the Game Committee, there is evidence of football being played sporadically in the Australian colonies in the first half of the 19th century. The earliest such match, held in St Kilda on 15 June, was between Melbourne Grammar and St Kilda Grammar. Born in Australia, Wills played a nascent form of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School in England and his letter is regarded by many historians as giving impetus for the development of a new code of football today known as Australian football. Two weeks later, Wills friend, cricketer Jerry Bryant, posted an advertisement for a match at the Richmond Paddock adjoining the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This was the first of several kickabouts held that year involving members of the Melbourne Cricket Club, including Wills, Bryant, W. J. Hammersley, trees were used as goalposts and play typically lasted an entire afternoon. Without an agreed code of laws, some players were guided by rules they had learned in the British Isles. Another significant milestone in 1858 was a match played under experimental rules between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College, held at the Richmond Paddock. This 40-a-side contest, umpired by Wills and Scotch College teacher John Macadam, began on 7 August and it is commemorated with a statue outside the MCG, and the two schools have competed annually ever since in the Cordner-Eggleston Cup, the worlds oldest continuous football competition. Since the early 20th century, it has suggested that Australian football was derived from the Irish sport of Gaelic football
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A
ball-up in a game between
Essendon and
Hawthorn during the
2007 AFL season
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Marking the ball is one of Australian football's distinctive features. (Pictured: Essendon great
John Coleman takes a
spectacular mark in 1950.)
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Precise field and goal kicking is the most important skill in Australian football.
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Sherrin is the official game ball of the Australian Football League.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
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Darwin /ˈdɑːrwᵻn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory and it is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top Ends regional centre. Darwins proximity to South East Asia makes it a link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor, the Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, ending at Port Augusta in South Australia. The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour and its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east. Past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwins satellite city, Palmerston, the Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. Prone to cyclone activity during the wet season, Darwin experiences heavy monsoonal downpours, during the dry season, the city is met with blue skies and gentle sea breezes from the harbour. The greater Darwin area is the home of the Larrakia people. On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area, John Clements Wickham named the region Port Darwin in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ships previous voyage which had ended in October 1836. The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911. The city has been almost entirely rebuilt four times, following devastation caused by the 1897 cyclone, the 1937 cyclone, Japanese air raids during World War II, the Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group are the traditional custodians and the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area. They had trading routes with Southeast Asia, and imported goods from as far afield as South, established songlines penetrated throughout the country, allowing stories and histories to be told and retold along the routes. The extent of shared songlines and history of multiple groups within this area is still contestable. The Dutch visited Australias northern coastline in the 1600s and landed on the Tiwi Islands only to be repelled by the Tiwi peoples, the Dutch created the first European maps of the area. This accounts for the Dutch names in the area, such as Arnhem Land, the first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ships captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, in 1863, the Northern Territory was tranferred from New South Wales to South Australia. In 1864 South Australia sent B. T. Finniss north as Government Resident to survey, Finniss chose a site at Escape Cliffs, near the entrance to Adelaide River, about 60 km northeast of the modern city. This attempt was short-lived, however, and the settlement abandoned by 1865, on 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin between Fort Hill and the escarpment. Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, in 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world
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The Darwin skyline seen from
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Remains of the Darwin Post Office after the first Japanese raid in 1942
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Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by
Cyclone Tracy
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Royal Australian Air Force
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The Royal Australian Air Force, formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force. It directly continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps, formed on 22 October 1912, the RAAF provides support across a spectrum of operations such as air superiority, precision strikes, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air mobility, and humanitarian support. The RAAF has taken part in many of the 20th centurys major conflicts, thousands of Australians also served with other Commonwealth air forces in Europe. By the time the war ended, a total of 216,900 men and women served in the RAAF, later the RAAF served in the Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Malayan Emergency, Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation and Vietnam War. More recently, the RAAF has participated in operations in East Timor, the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan, and the intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq. The RAAF has 259 aircraft, of which 110 are combat aircraft, the RAAF traces its history back to the Imperial Conference held in London in 1911, where it was decided aviation should be developed within the armed forces of the British Empire. By 1914 the corps was known as the Australian Flying Corps, soon after the outbreak of war in 1914, the Australian Flying Corps sent aircraft to assist in capturing German colonies in what is now north-east New Guinea. However, these colonies surrendered quickly, before the planes were even unpacked, the first operational flights did not occur until 27 May 1915, when the Mesopotamian Half Flight was called upon to assist the Indian Army in protecting British oil interests in what is now Iraq. The corps later saw action in Egypt, Palestine and on the Western Front throughout the remainder of the First World War, by the end of the war, four squadrons—Nos. 1,2,3 and 4—had seen operational service, while another four training squadrons—Nos,5,6,7 and 8—had also been established. A total of 460 officers and 2,234 other ranks served in the AFC, casualties included 175 dead,111 wounded,6 gassed and 40 captured. The Australian Flying Corps remained part of the Australian Army until 1919, although the Central Flying School continued to operate at Point Cook, military flying virtually ceased until 1920, when the Australian Air Corps was formed. The Australian Air Force was formed on 31 March 1921, king George V approved the prefix Royal in June 1921 and became effective on 31 August 1921. The RAAF then became the second Royal air arm to be formed in the British Commonwealth, when formed the RAAF had more aircraft than personnel, with 21 officers and 128 other ranks and 153 aircraft. A total of 17 RAAF bomber, fighter, reconnaissance and other squadrons served initially in Britain and with the Desert Air Force located in North Africa, thousands of Australians also served with other Commonwealth air forces in Europe during the Second World War. About nine percent of the personnel who served under British RAF commands in Europe and this statistic is further illustrated by the fact that No.460 Squadron RAAF, mostly flying Avro Lancasters, had an official establishment of about 200 aircrew and yet had 1,018 combat deaths. The squadron was therefore effectively wiped out five times over, total RAAF casualties in Europe were 5,488 killed or missing. The beginning of the Pacific War—and the rapid advance of Japanese forces—threatened the Australian mainland for the first time in its history, the RAAF was quite unprepared for the emergency, and initially had negligible forces available for service in the Pacific
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An Australian F-35A arriving at
Luke AFB to begin pilot training
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A Royal Australian Air Force B-737 taxies at
Sydney Airport
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A RAAF C-130J departing
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Indigenous Australian
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Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to European colonisation. In present-day Australia these groups are divided into local communities. At the time of initial European settlement, over 250 languages were spoken, it is estimated that 120 to 145 of these remain in use. Aboriginal people today mostly speak English, with Aboriginal phrases and words being added to create Australian Aboriginal English, a population collapse following European settlement, and a smallpox epidemic spreading three years after the arrival of Europeans may have caused a massive and early depopulation. Since 1995, the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag have been among the flags of Australia. The word aboriginal has been in the English language since at least the 16th century, to mean, first or earliest known and it comes from the Latin word aborigines, derived from ab and origo. The word was used in Australia to describe its indigenous peoples as early as 1789 and it soon became capitalised and employed as the common name to refer to all Indigenous Australians. Strictly speaking, Aborigine is the noun and Aboriginal the adjectival form, however, use of either Aborigine or Aboriginal to refer to individuals has acquired negative connotations in some sectors of the community, and it is generally regarded as insensitive and even offensive. The more acceptable and correct expression is Aboriginal Australians or Aboriginal people, the term Indigenous Australians, which also includes Torres Strait Islander peoples, has found increasing acceptance, particularly since the 1980s. The broad term Aboriginal Australians includes many groups that often identify under names from local Indigenous languages. Anindilyakwa on Groote Eylandt off Arnhem Land, Palawah in Tasmania and these larger groups may be further subdivided, for example, Anangu recognises localised subdivisions such as Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra, Luritja and Antikirinya. It is estimated that prior to the arrival of British settlers, the Torres Strait Islanders possess a heritage and cultural history distinct from Aboriginal traditions. The eastern Torres Strait Islanders in particular are related to the Papuan peoples of New Guinea, accordingly, they are not generally included under the designation Aboriginal Australians. This has been another factor in the promotion of the inclusive term Indigenous Australians. Six percent of Indigenous Australians identify themselves fully as Torres Strait Islanders, a further 4% of Indigenous Australians identify themselves as having both Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal heritage. The Torres Strait Islands comprise over 100 islands which were annexed by Queensland in 1879, eddie Mabo was from Mer or Murray Island in the Torres Strait, which the famous Mabo decision of 1992 involved. The term blacks has been used to refer to Indigenous Australians since European settlement, while originally related to skin colour, the term is used today to indicate Aboriginal heritage or culture in general and refers to people of any skin pigmentation. In the 1970s, many Aboriginal activists, such as Gary Foley, proudly embraced the term black, the book included interviews with several members of the Aboriginal community including Robert Jabanungga reflecting on contemporary Aboriginal culture
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Men from
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Indigenous Australians (
Aboriginal Australians and
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Men and boys playing a game of gorri, 1922
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Artwork depicting the first contact that was made with the
Gweagal Aboriginal people and
Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores of the
Kurnell Peninsula, New South Wales
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Jedda (movie)
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Jedda is a 1955 Australian film written, produced and directed by Charles Chauvel. His last film, it is notable for being the first to star two Aboriginal actors, Robert Tudawali, better known Bobby Wilson and Ngarla Kunoth, now known as Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and it was also the first Australian feature film to be shot in colour. Jedda is seen by some as a film in the development of Australian cinema. It won more international attention than previous Australian films, during a time when Hollywood films were dominating the Australian cinema, the director, Charles Chauvel, was nominated for the Golden Palm Award in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to the American Delbert Mann for Marty. Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness and she at first intends to give the baby to one of the Aboriginal women who work on the station, but then raises Jedda as her own, teaching her European ways and separating her from other Aborigines. Jedda wants to learn about her own culture, but is forbidden by Sarah, when Jedda grows into a young woman, she becomes curious about an Aboriginal man from the bush named Marbuck. This tall stranger arouses strong feelings in her and she is lured to his camp one night by a song. Marbuck abducts her and sets off back to his tribal land, joe, a half-caste stockman in love with Jedda, tracks the two for several days. They travel across high, rocky country, and down a river until Marbuck reaches his tribe, the tribal council declares that Marbuck has committed a serious crime by bringing Jedda to them, because she is not of the right skin group. They sing his song as punishment. Marbuck defies the elders and takes Jedda into an area of cliffs and canyons. Driven insane by the song, he pulls Jedda with him over a tall cliff. Joe, the narrator, says her spirit has joined the mother of the world. Cooper encouraged the director to make a film exploiting Australian locations, Chauvel was further encouraged along these lines by Bess Meredyth who had made a number of films in Australia in the 1920s. Chauvel decided to make the project in the Northern Territory, with his wife Elsa he made an extensive survey of the Territory later that year with the assistance of the Commonwealth government. He undertook colour tests, intending to make Australias first colour movie, the Chauvels then wrote a screenplay, originally entitled The Northern Territory Story
Jedda (movie)
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Chips Rafferty
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Chips Rafferty MBE was an Australian actor. He appeared in commercials in Britain during the late 1950s, encouraging British emigration to Australia and he was born John William Pilbean Goffage in Broken Hill, New South Wales to John Goffage, an English-born stock agent, and Australian-born Violet Maude Joyce. At that time, he was managing a wine cellar in Bond Street, Raffertys onscreen image as a lanky, laconic bushman struck a chord with filmgoers in Forty Thousand Horsemen. This film was popular and was screened throughout the world. Rafferty married Ellen Kathleen Quentin Jameson on 28 May 1941 and he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force the next day and entertained troops. During the war, Rafferty was allowed to make films on leave and he appeared in The Rats of Tobruk. He was discharged on 13 February 1945, having reached the rank of Flying Officer, Raffertys first film after the war was The Overlanders, which was a popular success. He followed this with Bush Christmas, ealing Studios signed Rafferty to a long term contract and cast him in The Loves of Joanna Godden. While promoting the film in Hollywood he met Hedda Hopper who said Rafferty created quite a stir and they call him the Australian Gary Cooper, but if he were cut down a bit he would be more like the late Will Rogers. I dont know how theyll get him on the screen unless they do it horizontally and he is as natural as an old shoe. Raffertys next film had him cast as Peter Lalor in the expensive spectacle Eureka Stockade and it was a box office disappointment and Raffertys performance much criticised. He was more happily cast in Ealings next film in Australia, Bitter Springs, Rafferty decided to move into movie production and formed a partnership with Lee Robinson. They made a series of films starring Rafferty and directed by Robinson including The Phantom Stockman, King of the Coral Sea, however the next three Rafferty Robinson movies failed to feature him as an actor and were financial disappointments. He appeared in The Sundowners, with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, the filming of Bounty dragged on – meant to take six months, it would end up taking 14. In 1962, the 6 foot 5 inch actor was socialising with fellow expatriates in a London club when one, Rafferty was eventually provoked into accepting a challenge to step outside, where he was badly beaten. In addition to deep grazes to his face that that may have cost him the chance of roles in two film productions the incident brought on a heart attack. Another of his appearances was with Elvis Presley in Double Trouble in 1967 and he played a Union soldier in The Big Valley with a noticeably Australian accent. He also participated in advertisements that were part of an Australian Government campaign in 1957 called Bring out a Briton
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Chips Rafferty
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Whiplash (TV series)
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Whiplash is a British/Australian television series produced by the Seven Network, ATV, and ITC Entertainment. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in September 1960 in the United Kingdom followed by Australia in February 1961, set in the 1860s, the series is a Western filmed in Australia, and stars Peter Graves as Christopher Cobb. The series is based on the life of Freeman Cobb, founder of Australias first stagecoach line, Cobb. Cobb did not carry a pistol and often used a stockwhip to settle disputes, the series stands out from other television Westerns of its era in using only Australian actors as guest stars, rather than character actors from American Westerns. The series was created by Michael Noonan and Michael Plant, and produced by Maury Geraghty and Ben Fox at the Artransas Studios, post-production was completed in the United Kingdom. Peter Graves as Christopher Cobb Anthony Wickert as Dan Ledward Theme Music, Words and Music by Edwin Astley, Edwin Astley, Albert Elms Airdate is for ATV London. ITV regions varied date and order, production number here refers to the order in the Network DVD booklet. Star Peter Graves was best known at the time for the TV Western Fury, production of the series was to have begun in 1959 but was delayed due to finance problems. Filming recommenced on 4 March 1960, the budget of the series was a reported ₤650,000. Location footage was shot in the Northern Territory, lionel Ware was in charge of horses. Studio scenes were shot at Artransa Studios in Frenchs Forest, Sydney, Network DVD released a Region 2 five disc set on 7 December 2009. On 18 September 2012, Timeless Media Group released Whiplash - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1, the 4-disc set features all 34 episodes of the series. net
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Whiplash
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Royal Darwin Hospital
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Royal Darwin Hospital is a 345-bed teaching hospital located at the northern suburb district of Tiwi, Darwin, Northern Territory. The first hospital of the settlement of Palmerston was built in 1874, the hospital was built on Packard Street overlooking Doctors Gully under the authority of Dr James Millner. By 1878, the hospital was improved with stone, during the next 40 years, the hospital was administered by South Australia. In 1911, the Commonwealth Government assumed control, construction of an 89-bed hospital fronting Lambell Terrace commenced in 1941 to cater for the Darwin area population of 4,000. The new hospital opened 2 February 1942 and was bombed just 17 days later during the Bombing of Darwin. Prior to Cyclone Tracy in 1974, approval had been given for the construction, based on the Woden Hospital design, Casuarina Hospital became fully operational on 20 May 1980. On 1 January 1982, the Casuarina Hospital name was changed to Darwin Hospital, following the Royal Assent on 10 January 1984, the hospital became Royal Darwin Hospital. Royal Darwin Hospital is the largest hospital in the Northern Territory, some of the services at the hospital are Anaesthetics, Cardiology, Emergency, Intensive Care and Surgery, Medicine, Pathology and Radiology and many other services. Royal Darwin also fosters relationships with Darwins other hospitals, including the Darwin Private Hospital, list of hospitals in Australia RDH website
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Royal Darwin Hospital
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Ernie Dingo
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He is a designated Australian National Living Treasure. Born Ernest Ashley Dingo on 31 July 1956, at Bullardoo Station, he was the child of nine. He grew up in Mullewa, Western Australia with his family and his younger brother Murray died in a car accident in August 2007. He went to Prospect Primary and then Geraldton High School and he came to acting after moving to Perth and meeting Richard Walley, with whom he played basketball in a local team. Ernie went on to play state league first division for the East Perth Hawks, Dingo is a distinguished actor and presenter in film and television, and promoted the Generation One Hand Across Australia which was a promotion for Indigenous equality. He collaborated with Richard Walley to create a controversial Welcome to Country ceremony in Perth in 1976, dingos film career began in the early 1980s and he appeared regularly on screen through the 1990s. He appeared in Bruce Beresfords 1987 drama The Fringe Dwellers and worked on the 1988 docu-drama biopic Tudawali and he had a major supporting role in the international comedy blockbuster Crocodile Dundee II in 1988. He appeared as himself in the 1989 comedy Capuccino and had a role in the 1991 Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World. In 1993 he starred in Blackfellas and he had a role in 1996s Dead Heart. In 1998 he starred in Somewhere in the Darkness, in 2010 he returned to the silver screen with a role in the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae along with Jessica Mauboy and Geoffrey Rush. Dingo hosted the television program The Great Outdoors since 1993 and he has also appeared in many Australian television series such as Blue Heelers, The Flying Doctors, Heartbreak High and Raffertys Rules. Dingo narrated the Indigenous segment of the 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Sydney, in May 2007, Dingo appeared as one of the celebrity performers on the celebrity singing competition reality show It Takes Two. Dingo also hosted the first series of No Leave, No Life, in February 2012 Dingo and his family were featured in episode three of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary series Family Confidential. He appears in an episode of Serangoon Road, an Australian-Singaporean television drama series premiered on 22 September 2013 on the ABC. Also in 2013, Dingo is a Vietnam veteran, a retired Army drill sergeant facing his demons in episode six of the series of Redfern Now. The episode was shown at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2013, Ernie Dingo married Sally Butler, then a sales representative for 2Day FM, in 1989. Dingo discovered in 2004 that he had a daughter, named Zoe and he also has a daughter called Alyssa Wallwork and his wife also raised another grandchild Jurra, as well as their 16-year-old adopted daughter Wilara. In his appearance on Family Confidential Dingo revealed that Wilaras father was another actor who was related to him
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Ernie Dingo presents
The Great Outdoors and see Australia
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Australian National University
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The Australian National University is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, founded in 1946, it is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students, the universitys endowment stood at A$1.13 billion in 2012. ANU is ranked 22nd in the world by the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings, ANU was named the worlds 7th most international university in a 2017 study by Times Higher Education. In the 2016 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, a ranking of university graduates employability. ANU is ranked 100th in the CWTS Leiden ranking, ANU counts six Nobel laureates and 49 Rhodes scholars among its faculty and alumni. The university has educated two prime ministers,30 current Australian ambassadors and more than a dozen current heads of Government departments of Australia, calls for the establishment of a national university in Australia began as early as 1900. After the location of the capital, Canberra, was determined in 1908. A group of eminent Australian scholars returned from overseas to join the university, including Sir Howard Florey, Sir Mark Oliphant, Sir Keith Hancock, economist Sir Douglas Copland was appointed as ANUs first Vice-Chancellor and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor. ANU was originally organised into four centres—the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies, the first residents’ hall, University House, was opened in 1954 for faculty members and postgraduate students. Mount Stromlo Observatory, established by the government in 1924. The first locations of the ANU Library, the Menzies and Chifley buildings, the Australian Forestry School, located in Canberra since 1927, was amalgamated by ANU in 1965. Canberra University College was the first institution of education in the national capital, having been established in 1929. Its founding was led by Sir Robert Garran, one of the drafters of the Australian Constitution, CUC was affiliated with the University of Melbourne and its degrees were granted by that university. Academic leaders at CUC included historian Manning Clark, political scientist Finlay Crisp, in 1960, CUC was integrated into ANU as the School of General Studies, initially with faculties in arts, economics, law and science. Faculties in Oriental studies and engineering were introduced later, Bruce Hall, the first residential college for undergraduates, opened in 1961. The Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art were amalgamated by ANU in 1992, ANU established its Medical School in 2002, after obtaining federal government approval in 2000. On 18 January 2003, the Canberra bushfires largely destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU astronomers now conduct research from the Siding Spring Observatory, which contains 10 telescopes including the Anglo-Australian Telescope
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Remains of the ANU
homopolar generator designed by
Mark Oliphant
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ANU School of Art located at the former
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Warren Snowdon
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Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian politician. He is a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives and he represented the Division of Northern Territory from July 1987 to March 1996, and from October 1998 to November 2001. Since November 2001, he has represented the Division of Lingiari and this electorate includes all the towns and communities in the Northern Territory outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Snowdon is a member of the Left faction of the Labor Party and he was born in Canberra, and was educated at St Edmunds College, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia. Snowdon worked as a teacher with the Northern Territory teaching service before entering politics, defeated at the 1996 federal election, Snowdon returned to parliament two years later. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Regional and Urban Development, Transport, from 2004 to 2007 he was Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs. Snowdon was sworn in as Minister for Defence Science and Personnel in the first Rudd ministry on 3 December 2007, on 12 September 2011 he was given the added responsibility of Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of ANZAC. Snowdon narrowly retained his seat at the 2013 federal election, largely due to his winning all, however, Snowdon was not appointed to the shadow ministry. Snowdon was reelected again in the 2016 federal election, First Rudd Ministry First Gillard Ministry Second Gillard Ministry Second Rudd Ministry Official website Search or browse Hansard for Warren Snowdon at OpenAustralia. org
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Anthony Albanese
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The Canberra Times
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The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper, published by Fairfax Media in Canberra. The Canberra Times was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare, the newspapers first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the paper to be printed in the city. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue, the first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, The Canberra Times converted from broadsheet to tabloid format, Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Ltd in 1964, on the condition that it continue to advocate for Canberra. Soon after, in July 1964, the format was switched back to broadsheet, offices remained open in the civic retail precinct until April 1987 when The Canberra Times moved its entire operation to the new office of The Federal Capital Press of Australia, also in Fyshwick. The paper was sold to Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, which in turn sold it to Kerry Stokes in 1989 for $110 million. Rural Press Limited bought the paper from Stokes in 1998 for $160 million, the Times rejoined the Fairfax stable in 2007 when Rural Press merged with Fairfax. The paper first went online on 31 March 1997, on 17 October 2008, The Canberra Times was distributed with a sticker advertising the ACT Labor Party on the front page. Complaints about the sticker prompted the manager, Ken Nichols. A new editorial team was appointed in November 2015, with Grant Newton as editor of the newspaper and Scott Hannaford as deputy editor. In March 2016, staff at the newspaper were told there would be a restructure at The Canberra Times, Fairfax Media also announced they would be cutting 12 jobs from the newspapers staff. The papers editors have included Jack Waterford and Michelle Grattan, the first female editor of a daily newspaper in Australia. A recent editor-in-chief, Peter Fray, left in January 2009 to edit The Sydney Morning Herald and he was succeeded by Rod Quinn, who announced the formation of a new senior editorial team in 2012. Editorial cartoonists have included Geoff Pryor, David Pope and Pat Campbell, list of newspapers in Australia The Canberra Times Digitised historic Canberra Times from the National Library of Australia
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