The Deadlys The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The event was held from 1995 to 2013. Description T ...

Awards was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community.

Music

*Most Promising New Talent:

Lez Beckett Lez Beckett is a hip hop artist. He has been a member of South West Syndicate South West Syndicate are an Australian hip-hop collective from Sydney. They started performing in 1992. They are made up of Aboriginal, Lebanese-Australian, Pacifi ...

*Single Release of the Year: Casey Donovan –

Listen with Your Heart "Listen with Your Heart" is a song written by Diane Warren, and recorded by CeCe Winans for her second album ''Everlasting Love'' (1998). Casey Donovan version In 2004, the song was chosen to be released as the winner's single of the second ser ...

*Album Release of the Year:

Fitzroy Xpress Fitzroy Xpress is an indigenous Aboriginal country rock band from the remote Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Beginnings Members formed as a school band in 1982.Local Knowledge Traditional knowledge (TK), indigenous knowledge (IK) and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous peoples, indigenous, or Local community, local communities. According to t ...

*Artist of the Year: Casey Donovan *

Jimmy Little James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales. Little started his profess ...

Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music:

Kev Carmody Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), better known by his stage name Kev Carmody, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", ...

*Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score:

Mary G Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician, comedian and radio announcer, writer, director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He is best known for his r ...

& The G Spot Band – The Mary G Show

Sport

*Most Promising New Talent:

Brenton Bowen Brenton Bowen (born 21 May 1983 in Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played for the North Queensland Cowboys from 2003 to 2007 and the Gold Coast Titans in 2008. He is ...

*Outstanding Achievement in

AFL AFL may refer to: Sports * American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: ** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...

Michael O'Loughlin Michael Kevin O'Loughlin (born 20 February 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played his entire Australian Football League career with the Sydney Swans. O'Loughlin was named a member of the Indigenous Team of t ...

*Outstanding Achievement In

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

: Matt Bowen *Female Sportsperson of the Year: Stacey Porter *Male Sportsperson of the Year: Matt Bowen *The Ella Award For Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport:

Lionel Rose Lionel Edmund Rose MBE (21 June 1948 – 8 May 2011) was an Australian former professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and ''The Ring'' bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, becoming the first Ind ...

The arts

*Dancer of the Year: Rayma Johnson *Outstanding Achievement in Film and Television: Wayne Blair, Director –

The Djarn Djarns ''The Djarn Djarns'' is a 2005 Australian short film, written and directed by Wayne Blair. Synopsis The film tells the story of an eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy, Frankie Dollar, as he comes to terms with his father's death. The name of the ...

*Outstanding Achievement in Literature: Stephen Hagan – ''The N Word: One Man's Stand'' () *Actor of the Year:

Leah Purcell Leah Maree Purcell (born 14 August 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist. She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's ''Somewhere in the Darkness'', which led to role ...

– Stuff Happens *Visual Artists of the Year:

Gordon Hooke Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, ...

*Special Presentation Lifetime Achievement Award:

Justine Saunders Oa Justine may refer to: People * Jean-Lou Justine (born 1955), male French scientist * Saint Justine of Padua (died 304), a Christian martyr * Justine Bateman (born 1966), American film actress * Justine Clarke (born 1971), Australian actress * J ...

Community

*DEST Award For Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Peter Buckskin *Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health:

Sandra Eades Sandra Eades (born 1967) is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University. Early li ...

*Broadcaster of the Year:

Rhoda Roberts Rhoda Ann Roberts (born 1959) is an Australian actress, director and arts executive. Born in Canterbury Hospital in Sydney in 1959, Bundjalung woman Roberts grew up and completed Year 10 in Lismore, then moved back to Sydney where she qua ...

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Deadly Sounds The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The event was held from 1995 to 2013. Description T ...

And Awaye!,

Australian Broadcasting Commission The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned ...

Radio *New Apprentice of the Year: Andrew Craig

External links

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Vibe ''Vibe'' is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producers David Salzman and Quincy Jones. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. After shutting down productio ...

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