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Dot West
Dot West , is an Indigenous Australian screenwriter. Education West qualified with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies in 1998. Career West is a freelance scriptwriter, accredited trainer and consultant, and also serves on Screenwest's Industry Advisory Group and WA's Screen Industry Diversity and Inclusion leadership group. West has served as a board member in various organisations including the Inaugural Vice Chairperson of NITV, Screenwest, Australian International Documentary Conference, the National Indigenous Radio Service. West is a non-Executive Director of SBS, Director of Goolarri Media Enterprises and Ramu Productions in Broome and the Chairperson of First Nations Media Australia. In 1993, West delivered one of the annual series of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Boyer Lectures called "Voices of the Land". Personal Dot West was born Dorothy Henry, a Noongar woman from Western Australia's south west. Honours and awards * 2005 Tudawali Award * 2008 WASA f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyer Lectures
The Boyer Lectures are a series of talks by prominent Australians, presenting ideas on major social, scientific or cultural issues, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. The Boyer Lectures began in 1959 as the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission, now the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Lectures. They were modelled on the BBC's Reith Lectures, and renamed in 1961 after Richard Boyer (later Sir Richard), the ABC board chairman who had first suggested the lectures. The series is broadcast every year in between September and December on ABC Radio National. The lectures are delivered by prominent Australians selected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Board, intended to stimulate thought, discussion and debate in Australia on a wide range of subjects, examining key issues and values. Lectures 1950s *1959 – Dr David Forbes Martyn – "Society in the Space Age" 1960s *1960 – Prof Julius Stone – "Law and Policy in the Quest for Survival" *1961 – Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Women Screenwriters
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Living People
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IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circuit (TV Series)
''The Circuit'' is an Australian television drama series, starring Aaron Pedersen and Gary Sweet. The first season aired in 2007 and the second in December 2009 to January 2010. Plot The series centres on Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal solicitor Drew Ellis, who joins the district to work at the Kimberley, Western Australia, Kimberley Circuit Court. Cast * Aaron Pedersen as Drew Ellis * Gary Sweet as Magistrate Peter Lockhart * Kelton Pell as Sam Wallan * Tammy Clarkson as Bella Noble * Marta Kaczmarek as Ellie Zdybicka * Nick Simpson-Deeks as Archie McMahon * Leroy Parsons as Clarence Long * Bill McCluskey as Sergeant Bob Temple * Costa Ronin as Karl Release The six-part first season screened on SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS TV, premiering on 8 July 2007 at , and concluding on 12 August 2007. Season 2 aired from 1 December 2009 through 5 January 2010, ending the series. Production Filmed mainly in Broome, Western Australia, Broome, Western Australia and surrounding areas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AWGIE Award
The AWGIE Awards is an annual awards ceremony conducted by the Australian Writers' Guild, for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing. The awards began in 1967. The awards are judged by over 50 writers, most of whom are previous award winners themselves. They receive no payment for their role as judges. The judges sign a confidentiality agreement, stating that they will not disclose to anyone that they are members of the judging panel. Award categories As of 2018, award categories include: Major AWGIE *Awarded to the outstanding script of that year across all categories Feature film *Screenplay Original *Screenplay Adaptation Short Film *Short Film Television *Serial *Series *Mini Series Original *Mini Series Adaptation *Telemovie Original *Telemovie Adaptation *Drama or Comedy, Other Form (Television or Alternate Platforms) Children's Television *Pre-school (under 5 years) *Children's (5–14 years) Comedy *Comedy – Situation or Narrative *Comedy – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swinburne University Of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access to further education in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Its main campus is in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, 7.5 km from the Melbourne central business district. In addition to its main Hawthorn campus, it has campuses in the Melbourne metropolitan area at Wantirna and Croydon; in Sarawak, Malaysia; and in Sydney. In the 2020 Student Experience Survey, Swinburne was ranked equal 1st place in Victoria for the ’entire education experience’ for undergraduate students, with an overall satisfaction rate of 80 per cent. Swinburne is the only academic institution in Melbourne that offers pilot training from the aviation degrees. History Swinburne University of Technology has its origins in the Eastern Suburbs Technical Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Australian Screen Awards
The West Australian Screen Awards (WASA) are film awards given out in Western Australia. The WASAs are presented by FTI (WA). The Awards commenced in 1987, although they were put on hold for a year in 2012, before running again from 2013 to 2016, when it was finally cancelled. The awards were significant points in the careers of a number of Australian film stars and film companies. The awards have now evolved into the WA Screen Culture Awards which commenced in 2020. See also * Film Industry in Western Australia *Cinema of Australia The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of '' The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received internat ... References External linksThe West Australian Screen Awards* Film organisations in Australia Culture of Western Australia {{Australia-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West (Western Australia)
The South West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It has an area of 23,970 km2, and a population of about 170,000 people. Bunbury is the main city in the region. Climate The South West has a Mediterranean climate, with dry summers and wet winters. There is about 900 mm of precipitation per year, with most between May and September. Bunburyonline. Mean maximum daily temperatures range from 16 °C in July to 34 °C in February. Economy The economy of the South West is very diverse. It is a major world producer of aluminium oxide and mineral sands, and als ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noongar
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. There are 14 different Noongar groups: Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wadandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari. The Noongar people refer to their land as . The members of the collective Noongar cultural block descend from peoples who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible.; for the Ballardong nys, chungar, label=none; the Yued had two terms, nys, nitin, label=none and nys, chiargar, label=none; the Kaneang spoke of nys, iunja, label=none; the Pindjarup of nys, chinga, label=none; the Koreng of nys, nyituing, label=none; the Mineng of nys, janka, label=none; the Njakinjaki of nys, jennok, label=none, etc. What is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
