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Yothu Yindi's Mabo Gets Crowds Stomping,
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(p. 4)
'Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo is celebrated in a song newly released as a single by Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project.'
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DVD Release Re-Imagines Storm Boy,
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(p. 12)
'If you haven't yet seen the movie Storm Boy, its recent release on DVD gives you a chance to follow the story of the unbreakable bond between a young boy Michael Kingley (Finn Little) and his close friend, Mr Percival, a pelican.'
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Thornton Takes a Sea Change,
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(p. 19)
'The Beach - a television series following director Warwick Thornton as he turns his back of the limelight and life in the fast lane - is one of seven new documentary projects to get production funding from Screen Australia.'
- Whispered Namesi"Deep inside the dreaming old", single work poetry (p. 23)
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Their Spirit Drives Us,
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(p. 26)
'The spirit of the Queensland Black Watch rides again. In an Australian first, five descendants of Aboriginal servicemen who fought in World War I in the 11th Light Horse Brigade rode in two Queensland Anzac Day Parades.'
- Composer Use Our Sounds, single work column (p. 39)
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Elders' Heaven Arrives,
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(p. 39)
'Being rejected from the debutante ball in Warren for being Aboriginal is one of the personal stories told by Uncle Dick Carney in a new autobiographical play A Little Piece of Heaven.'
