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Dot West Dot West i(A107516 works by) (a.k.a. Dorothy West)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 y separately published work icon Right Under Your Nose Dot West , Tony Thorne (illustrator), Richmond : Hardie Grant Children's Publishing , 2023 26215168 2023 single work picture book children's 'The ocean is wide, deep and full of wonders! Little J and Big Cuz are excited for ocean day at school tomorrow. But what happens when the power goes out while they’re getting ready for show-and-tell?' (Publication summary) 
 
1 form y separately published work icon Last Days of the Space Age David Chidlow , Alice Addison , Dot West , Jeremy Nguyen , Alan Nguyen , ( dir. Bharat Nalluri ) Australia : Walt Disney Productions Princess Pictures , 2023 24577489 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'Last Days of the Space Age is an eight-part dramedy series set in 1979 Western Australia, when Perth was at the centre of the world’s headlines. A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the US space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city’s suburbs.

'Against this backdrop of international cultural and political shifts, three families in a tight-knit coastal community find their marriages, friendships, and futures put to the test.'

Source: Media Week (https://www.mediaweek.com.au/disney-announces-new-australian-original-content-launching-in-2022-23/). (Sighted: 26/05/2022.)
1 y separately published work icon The Big Race Dot West , Tony Thorne (illustrator), Richmond : Hardie Grant Children's Publishing , 2022 23944500 2022 single work picture book children's

'Today is school picnic day! Little J, Big Cuz and all their friends are off for a day of outdoor fun.

'With Nanna's help, Little J has crafted a double tin roller. Will it take him to a swift victory in the big roller race? Get ready for some rumbling, tumbling racing fun!' (Publication summary)
1 form y separately published work icon Serpent's Eye Dot West , ( dir. Tony Thorne ) Australia : Ned Lander Media Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2021 26406126 2021 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Desert Camp Dot West , Victoria : Ned Lander Media Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2020 20269767 2020 single work film/TV children's
1 form y separately published work icon Marrimarrigun Dot West , Dianne Appleby , Jimmy Edgar , Melanie Edgar , ( dir. Kimberley West ) Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017 17032505 2017 single work film/TV

'Marrimarrigun is the story of two young men hunting in Marrar country, and who get ripped from the land by the notoriously ferocious and fast tides.

'Stranded on an island, the boys are saved and protected by Marrimarri, the giant spirit man and his daughters.

'As their family mourns them, the boys are put through Law by Marrimarri and marry his daughters before being taken on a spiritual journey back to the mainland.

'The spirits of the two boys can be seen in the Laja and Man-gala time, walking along the beach spearing.' (Production summary)



 
1 Untitled i "We sat in the river bed,", Dot West , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: All Ginibi's Mob : Our Voices Collected 2011; (p. 108-109)
1 5 form y separately published work icon The Circuit : Series 2 Kelly Lefever , Dot West , Mitch Torres , Wayne Blair , Australia : Media World Pictures , 2009 Z1622302 2009 single work film/TV Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis continues his journey through the chaotic, challenging world of the Kimberley Court, a circuit that takes a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five-day, 2000-kilometre round trip to dispense justice to the dusty, remote communities of northern Western Australia. (Screen Australia record)
2 6 form y separately published work icon The Circuit Beck Cole , Kelly Lefever , Mitch Torres , Dot West , ( dir. Richard Frankland et. al. )agent Australia : Media World Pictures , 2007 Z1405020 2007 single work film/TV

'The Circuit is set in the Kimberley region of North Western Australia. It is a place of two seasons; the wet and the dusty dry. Known for its beauty, vastness and hardship, this region is a land rich in history for its traditional owners, but now sits within the confines of white ownership and white law. This is the home of The Circuit, the Magistrate's Court, which visits far-flung communities several days a month, bringing conveyor-belt justice dealt swiftly and fairly. Working between two worlds and juggling white law with traditional lore, means that justice can be a slippery beast.'

Source: SBS website, http://www.sbs.com.au/
Sighted: 09/07/2007
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