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Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left
''Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left'' is a 1985 novel by Australian children's author Robin Klein which also became a children's television series. The story focuses on an alien family who seek refuge on Earth, in the small town of Bellwood. Klein also wrote a sequel novel called ''Turn Right for Zyrgon''. Plot summary The novel tells the tale of the planet Zyrgon, ruled by the galactic police called The Law-Enforcers. They are after Mortimer, who has cheated the government lottery for the 27th time in a row. His family is governed by the youngest daughter, 12-year-old X, who wants to save her father from the detention centre. The family also includes Mother, who would rather design clothing and leave all worries to her daughter X. The oldest sister Dovis is a cosmic flier who writes poetry and levitates. The youngest is a boy genius, Qwrk who is a professor at age 8. X is the lead character: a stressed girl who has to balance between strange Earth customs such as sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Walker (actor)
Jeffrey Walker (born 10 July 1982) is an Australian director and former actor, best known to the Australian public for his appearances as a child actor in ''Ocean Girl'' and ''Round the Twist''. He moved on to direct episodes of Australian soaps '' Neighbours'', '' Home and Away'', and '' H2O: Just Add Water''. He is married to American-born Australian actress Brooke Harman-Walker. Career Walker's first acting credit was a small role in ''The Flying Doctors'' in 1989. In 1992, he took over the role of Bronson Twist in the television series ''Round the Twist'', based on the books by Paul Jennings. In 1994 he received a leading role in ''Ocean Girl'' as "Brett Bates". He had another major role as the brother Royce on '' Mirror, Mirror''. Walker received leading roles in '' The Wayne Manifesto'' in 1996 (for which he received a Young Actor's Award from the Australian Film Institute) and '' Thunderstone'' (1999), in which he played Wayne and Noah Daniels respectively. Since his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Klein
Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Early life Robin Klein is one of nine children. She had her first short story published at the age of 16. She worked in number of jobs before becoming an established writer, including tea lady at a warehouse, bookshop assistant, nurse, copper enamelist, and program aide at a school for disadvantaged children. In 1981, she was awarded a Literature Board grant for writing, and since then, she has had more than 20 books published. She is the poet of the poem "Amanda!". Robin Klein was educated at Newcastle Girls' High School. Career Several of her books have been Short list, short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, Children's Book of the Year Award, including ''Hating Alison Ashley (novel), Hating Alison Ashley'' (also a Hating Alison Ashl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian actress. She is best known for her film roles in '' Tom Jones'' (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, '' Hombre'' (1967) and ''The Wicker Man'' (1973). She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Helen of Troy in the play ''Tiger at the Gates''. Early life Cilento was born in Mooloolaba, Queensland, the daughter of Phyllis (née McGlew) and Raphael Cilento, both medical practitioners in Queensland. She was the fifth of six children; four of her siblings became medical practitioners, while her sister Margaret was an artist. Cilento's paternal great-grandfather, Salvatore Cilento, arrived from Naples, Italy, in 1855.Desmond O'ConnorItalians in South Australia: The first hundred years, In D. O’Connor and A. Comin (eds) 1993. "Proceedings: the First Conference on the Impact of Italians in South Australia, 16–17 July 1993", Italian Congress: Italian Discipline, The Flinders Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Armstrong
Kerry Michelle Armstrong (born 12 September 1958) is an Australian actress and author. She is one of only two actresses to win two Australian Film Institute Awards in the same year, winning Best Actress in a Leading Role for ''Lantana'' and Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama for ''SeaChange'' in 2001. After early television roles in Australia including ''Prisoner'' (1979) and ''Skyways'' (1980), Armstrong moved to the United States in 1981, where she played Ophelia in ''Hamlet'' and Isabella in '' Measure for Measure'' at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and had a role in the soap opera ''Dynasty'' (1985–86). She returned to Australia in 1987. Her other television roles include ''MDA'' (2002–03) and ''Bed of Roses'' (2008–11). Career Early years Armstrong appeared in both acting and presenting roles on Australian television in the 1970s and early 1980. One of her first acting roles was on television series ''Marion'', released in March 1974. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television station covering the Wollongong region. The WIN Network has since grown to cover much of regional Australia. The network's name, ''WIN'', originates from its first station, Wollongong's WIN-4. WIN has a program supply agreement with metropolitan broadcaster Nine Network, covering its stations in Regional Queensland, Southern and Western New South Wales, Griffith, Regional Victoria, Mildura, Tasmania, Eastern South Australia, and Regional Western Australia. WIN also has a program supply agreement with third-placed metropolitan broadcaster Network 10, for its Northern New South Wales station. WIN also produces and broadcasts weeknight half-hour local news bulletins across its Queensland, southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania markets, as WIN News. Regional services Through its many te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey Hills, Victoria
Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas. Surrey Hills recorded a population of 13,655 at the . Surrey Hills was settled in the late 19th century and evolved with slightly smaller blocks and slightly simpler housing than its neighbour Canterbury.http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/three-of-the-best-surrey-hills-20130509-2j8qn.html Most of Surrey Hills' streets are lined with now-mature European trees, mostly plane and pin oak. It is bordered by Elgar Road in the east, Riversdale Road in the south, Highfield Road in the west and Whitehorse Road in the north. History The Surrey Hills area was acquired from the Crown by Henry Elgar, as part of his Special Survey purchase in 1841. The Surrey Hills area was first developed by a Real Estate consortia, following the extension of the railway line from Camberwell to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamstown, Victoria
Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 census. History Indigenous history Indigenous Australians occupied the area long before maritime activities shaped the modern historical development of Williamstown. The Yalukit-willam clan of the Kulin nation were the first people to call Hobsons Bay home. They roamed the thin coastal strip from Werribee to Williamstown/Hobsons Bay. The Yalukit-willam were one clan in a language group known as the Bunurong, which included six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. The Yalukit-willam referred to the Williamstown area as "koort-boork-boork", a term meaning "clump of she-oaks", literally "She-oak, She-oak, many." The head of the Yalikut-willam tribe at the time of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Children's Channel
The Children's Channel, also known as TCC, was a British-based pan-European children's television channel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which was owned by Flextech in London, England, UK. It began broadcasting on the original Eutelsat satellite on September 1, 1984. History Early years The Children's Channel was launched on the original Eutelsat satellite on September 1, 1984, almost exclusively to cable households owing to the low proliferation of domestic satellite dishes in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the time, and originally operated by ''Starstream'' who were backed by British Telecom, DC Thomson, Thames Television and Thorn EMI. In March 1989, The Children's Channel started airing free-to-air on the SES-owned Astra 1A satellite, airing from 5am to 10am on weekdays and from 5am to 12pm on weekends, time-sharing with Lifestyle. Following the launch of the Astra 1B-satellite in 1991, The Children's Channel expanded to broadcast until 7pm each day, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which was previously 6 am to 6 pm until 21 February 2016. It is also the title of a programming block on the ITV (TV network), ITV network at weekends. ''Children's ITV'' launched on 3 January 1983, as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 5–13.At this point, there was only one "ITV" channel in any given area- transmitter overlap and split weekday/weekend franchises aside- and "ITV" was solely a generic/collective name for the various regional commercial television stations. It replaced the earlier ''Watch It!'' branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio, up until 1987 when ITV Central, Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand–Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre. Biography Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy ''Stork''. Spence's best known film role is as the gyrocopter pilot in ''Mad Max 2'' (1981). He also played the lead role in Werner Herzog's ''Where the Green Ants Dream'' (1984) and portrayed Jedediah the pilot in ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985). In the 21st century, Spence played the Mouth of Sauron in '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003), the Trainman in ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003), and Baxter in Disney's ''Inspector Gadget 2'' (2003), and voiced the character Chum in ''Finding Nemo'' (2003). He also portrayed Tion Medon in '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005) and played Lord Rhoop in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' (2010). Spence portrayed the pala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
