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Deadly Awards 2012
The 2012 Deadly Awards were hosted by Luke Carroll and Casey Donovan at the Sydney Opera House on 25 September 2012. Jessica Mauboy and opera singer Deborah Cheetham performed at the ceremony. The Awards program were broadcast on nationally on SBS One on 30 September 2012. The event was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. Lifetime Achievement *Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Arthur Beetson (NRL) *Jimmy Little Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Music: The Sapphires – Beverly Briggs, Naomi Mayers, Lois Peeler, Laurel Robinson and Tony Briggs *The Marcia Langton Award For Lifetime Achievement In Leadership: Percy Neal *The Lifetime Contribution Award For Healing The Stolen Generations: Aunty Lorraine Darcy Peeters Music *Single Release of the Year: Jessica Mauboy – "Galaxy" *Album Release of the Year: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Carroll
Luke Carroll is an Australian stage, television and film actor. Education Carroll attended Marcellin College Randwick and graduated in 1996. Television and film Carroll started out in guest roles in some Australian shows, including ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Lift Off (TV series), Lift Off'', ''The Man from Snowy River (TV series), The Man from Snowy River'', ''Ocean Girl'' and ''Water Rats (TV series), Water Rats'', but made a name for himself when he took the leading role in the film ''Australian Rules (film), Australian Rules''. He then had regular roles in some Australian dramas, including ''The Alice (TV series), The Alice'' (2005) and the mini-series ''RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series), RAN'' (2006). In 2007, he co-hosted (with Cathy Freeman) ''Going Bush'', a travel show for Special Broadcasting Service, SBS Television. Later that year he completed filming in ''The Tender Hook'', and also filmed a seven-week stint in the soap opera, ''Home and Away''. In September 2009, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo De La Cruz
Bo or BO may refer to Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theatre *Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots Gaming *'' Call of Duty: Black Ops'', a first-person shooter video game *'' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'', first in the Legacy of Kain video game series Music *Bo (instrument), a Chinese cymbal * Bo, a Greek rapper. Religion *Bo or Bodhi Tree *Bo (parsha), fifteenth weekly Torah reading Ethnic groups * Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China *Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic groups in Laos *Bo people (Andaman), a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands Human names *Bo (given name), name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname *Bo (surname), name origin, plus a list of people with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Ahmat
Natalie may refer to: People * Natalie (given name) * Natalie (singer) (born 1979), Mexican-American R&B singer/songwriter * Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), Armenian writer and principal organizer of Operation Nemesis Music Albums * ''Natalie'' (Natalie album), by Natalie Alvarado, 2005 * ''Natalie'' (Natalie Cole album), 1976 Songs * "Natalie" (Ola song), 2006 * "Natalie", by Ada LeAnn, representing Michigan in the '' American Song Contest'', 2022 * "Natalie", by Bruno Mars from '' Unorthodox Jukebox'', 2012 * "Natalie", by Dave Rowland, 1982 * "Natalie", by Freddy Cannon, 1966 * "Natalie", by Rich Dodson, 1980 * "Natalie", by Shirley Bassey from '' I Am What I Am'', 1984 * "Natalie", by Stephen Duffy, 1993 Other uses * ''Natalie'' (film), a 2010 South Korean film * Natalie (website), a Japanese entertainment news website See also * Natalee, a given name * Natali (other) * Nathalie (other) Nathalie Nathalie is a female given name. It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Ah Kee
Vernon Ah Kee (born 1967) is a contemporary Australian artist, political activist and founding member of ProppaNOW. Based primarily in Brisbane, Queensland, Ah Kee is an Aboriginal Australian man with ties to the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples in Queensland. His art practice typically focuses on his Aboriginal Australian identity and place within a modern Australian framework, and is concerned with themes of skin, skin colour, race, privilege and racism. Ah Kee has exhibited his art at numerous galleries across Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and has also exhibited internationally, most notably representing Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale and the 2015 Istanbul Biennial. Ah Kee has a very diverse art practice, using a broad range of techniques and media such as painting, installation, photography and text-based art. He is particularly renowned for his manipulati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Munyarryun
Guypunura "Janet" Munyarryun (born ) is an Aboriginal dancer, choreographer and tutor. She was a founding member of the Bangarra Dance Theatre. Biography Munyarryun was born in Yirrkala, a community in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. She grew up in the Garthalala homeland, and as a young girl she travelled with her family across country to establish the community of Dhalinybuy. She is a Yolngu woman of the Wangnurri clan. In 1984, she started working at National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) Dance College in Sydney, and started cultural workshops to bring traditional dance practices to urban students. She also helped establish the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT), contributing as a choreographer and tutor. In 1989, Bangarra Dance Theatre was formed after NAISDA director Carole Johnson left the organisation, and Munyarryun contributed as a founding member. She had two children, Rarriwuy and Guruguru, to Paul Hic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann (born 1963) is an Australian poet of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. She is a Yankunytjatjara woman born on Kaurna land in South Australia. Eckermann has written poetry collections, verse novels and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards. In 2017, she won the international Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry. She has travelled extensively, performing her poetry. Early life Ali Cobby Eckermann was born Penelope Rae Cobby at the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home in Adelaide, traditional home of the Kaurna people, in 1963. She was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple, Clarrie and Frieda Eckermann. She grew up on a farm, and did her schooling at Brinkworth Area School and Clare High School, in mid-north South Australia. Eckermann, her mother and her grandmother were all stolen, tricked or adopted away from their birth families, becoming part of the Stolen Generations. She grew up in a loving supportive home, but she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonita Mabo
Ernestine Bonita Mabo (née Neehow) ( – 26 November 2018), was an Australian educator and activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. She was the wife of Eddie Mabo until his death in 1992. Early life Bonita Mabo was born in Halifax, Queensland, one of 10 children. She was an Australian South Sea Islander of Ni-Vanuatu descent whose ancestors were "blackbirded" to work in the sugar cane industry in Queensland. Her grandfather was blackbirded from Tanna Island in what is now Vanuatu. In 1973, Eddie and Bonita Mabo established the Black Community School in Townsville, where children could learn their own culture rather than white culture. Bonita worked in the school as a teacher's aide and oversaw day-to-day operations. Media portrayals In the 2012 television film '' Mabo'', Deborah Mailman played the role of Bonita Mabo, opposite Jimi Bani who played her husband Eddie Mabo. Honours Mabo was appointed an Officer of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Mailman
Deborah Jane Mailman (born 14 July 1972) is an Australian television and film actress, and singer. Mailman played the character Kelly Lewis on the Australian television series ''The Secret Life of Us'' and Cherie Butterfield in the Australian comedy/drama series ''Offspring''. She portrayed the role of Lorraine in the Australian TV series ''Redfern Now'' and Aunt Linda in the television program ''Cleverman''. Mailman is the main character in the Australian TV series '' Total Control''. Mailman was the first Aboriginal actress to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and has gone on to win four more both in television and film. She first gained recognition in the 1998 film ''Radiance'' for which she won her first AFI award. She has had roles in ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'', ''Bran Nue Dae'', '' Oddball'', '' The Sapphires'', '' Paper Planes'', '' Mental'', ''Blinky Bill the Movie'', ''Combat Wombat'', '' H Is for Happiness'', and ''The Book of Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Mabo
Edward Koiki Mabo (''né'' Sambo; 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992) was an Indigenous Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights in Australia, in particular the landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that recognised that indigenous rights to land had continued after the British Crown acquired sovereignty and that the international law doctrine of terra nullius was not applicable to Australian domestic law. High court judges considering the case ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' found in favour of Mabo, which led to the ''Native Title Act 1993'' and established native title in Australia, officially recognising the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. Early life and family Mabo was born Edward Koiki Sambo on 29 June 1936 in the village of Las on the island of Mer in the Torres Strait. His parents were Robert Zesou Sambo and Poipe Mabo, but Eddie was adopted by his uncle Benny Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimi Bani
Jimi Bani is an Indigenous Australian actor, known for his portrayal of land rights activist Eddie Mabo in the 2012 tele-movie '' Mabo'', several television series, and theatre performances. Early life and education A Torres Strait Islander (Mabuiag Island) of the Wadagadum people, where his father was a tribal chief, he attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Bani's first role was in the 2006 mini-series, '' RAN: Remote Area Nurse'', that aired on SBS One. In 2012, he appeared on ABC1's series, ''The Straits'' and on the tele-movie '' Mabo'', both of which were nominated for awards. Bani appeared in ''Redfern Now'', a six-part series produced by Blackfella Films that went to air on ABC1 in late 2012. From late 2013 through 2014 Bani performed in ''The Shadow King'' for which he received a Helpmann Awards nomination. The play was produced by the Malthouse Theatre in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Straits
''The Straits'' is an Australian television drama series for ABC1 filmed in Cairns, the Torres Strait Islands and other Far North Queensland locations. The series is based on an idea by actor Aaron Fa'aoso and produced by Penny Chapman and Helen Panckhurst from Matchbox Pictures. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis, Rachel Ward, and Rowan Woods. It is written by Louis Nowra, Blake Ayshford, Nick Parsons, Kristen Dunphy, and Jaime Browne. On 19 October 2012, it was announced that a second series will not be produced. In December 2012, the show began airing exclusively on Hulu. Synopsis The series follows the Montebello family, whose business involves smuggling drugs into Australia, and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands. When Harry Montebello, the head of the family, starts to plan his succession, he sparks a vicious family power struggle. While under attack from ambitious bikers and mercurial Papua New Guinea Rasko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabo (film)
''Mabo'' is an Australian docudrama TV film, released in 2012, which relates the successful legal battle waged by Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Koiki Mabo to bring about native land title legislation in Australia. Synopsis ''Mabo'' tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander man who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of ''terra nullius''. Cast *Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo **Gedor Zaro as Young Eddie *Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo (née Neehow) *Ewen Leslie as Bryan Keon-Cohen *Tom Budge as Greg McIntyre *Felix Williamson as Ron Castan *Leon Ford as Henry Reynolds *Lasarus Ratuere as Malcolm Mabo Production The film was written by Sue Smith, directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Darren Dale and Miranda Dear, all of Blackfella Films, with the assistance of the ABC and SBS. It was filmed at Mer Island in the Torres Strait, Magnetic Island, Brisbane and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
