Tag: Outback
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Birdsville’s Thutirla Pula Story Place interpretive signage
One of the most important Dreamtime stories from Central Australia is that of Thutirla Pula—the Two Boys. This series of interpretive signs at a significant Aboriginal ceremonial site in the Queensland Outback town of Birdsville presents a local telling of the story. Working with designer Adrienne Williams from See-Saw, we travelled to the very remote Birdsville to survey…
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Hermannsburg Life
Hermannsburg LifeArtworks, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Debra McCoy The former Aboriginal mission town of Hermannsburg, 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, has a long history of contemporary art practice—from the evocative watercolours of Albert Namatjira in the 1930s, to the quirky, colourful ceramics of the Aranda women’s pottery group today. Brisbane’s Artisan Gallery hosted an…
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Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½
Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½Street Stories, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Claudia TarantoABC Regional Production Fund “Man needs space to feel free. You can be desperately lonesome in a crowd, but in the outback you can be alone without ever feeling lonely.” So says Johnny Kovac in White Man in a Hole by Rena Briand –…
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Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop
Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback copStreet Stories, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Claudia TarantoABC Regional Production Fund The role of the police officer in the small and remote rural community is both official and social, formal and informal. The position and mere presence of a cop are essential to both the general…