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Rachael Maza
Rachael Zoa Maza , also credited as Rachael Maza Long, is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress, and stage director. She is known for her role in the 1998 film ''Radiance'', and worked with Company B and Wesley Enoch in Sydney for many years. She has been artistic director and of Ilbijerri Theatre Company since 2008. Early life and education Rachael Zoa Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander ( Meriam Mir) and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter of Bob Maza, also an actor. She is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Stage Maza has numerous stage credits (sometimes credited as Rachael Maza Long), since at least 1992. She has worked with Company B and Wesley Enoch for many years, with her performances at the Belvoir St Theatre including leading roles in ''Conversations with the Dead'' and '' The Dreamers''. She again worked with Enoch in '' The Sapphires'', staged by the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia. The company's Southbank Theatre houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler, and the company also performs in the Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio and Playhouse, all located in Melbourne's Arts Precinct in Southbank. Considered Victoria's state theatre company, it formally comes under the auspices of the University of Melbourne. As of 2013 it offered a Mainstage Season of ten to twelve plays each year, as well as education, family and creative development activities, and reported having a subscriber base of approximately 20,000 people and played to a around quarter of a million people annually. History The Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Message Stick
''Message Stick'' was an Australian television series about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lifestyles, culture and issues. History The weekly half-hour show began screening in 1999 on ABC Television. It featured profile stories, interviews, video clips, short films and cooking segments. The last show went to air in July 2012. Presenters included Aden Ridgeway (from July 2006), Miriam Corowa, Rachael Maza, Kelrick Martin, Deborah Mailman, and Trisha Morton-Thomas. Selected episodes * "Bill's Wake" (2001) – About the wake held by Bill Neidjie, a traditional owner of Kakadu, while he was still alive *"Wayne’s World" (2005) – focusing on actor/director Wayne Blair *"Stephen Hagan" (Sunday 29 January 2006, 1.30 pm) – Aboriginal activist and former diplomat Stephen Hagan is interviewed about his campaign to have an offensive word removed from a Toowoomba sports stadium. *"Giving Voice" (Sunday 8 November 2009, 1:30pm) – about the Northern Territory Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise Blanchett ( ; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor and producer. Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she is recognised for Cate Blanchett on screen and stage, her versatile work across stage and screen. Blanchett has received List of awards and nominations received by Cate Blanchett, numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Awards, Tony Award. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her career on the Australian stage in 1992 and made her feature film debut in 1997. She came to international prominence for her performance as Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth I in the period drama ''Elizabeth (film), Elizabeth'' (1998), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Crombie
Lillian Crombie (1958 – 3 January 2024), also known as "Aunty Lillian", was an Aboriginal Australian actress and dancer, known for her work on stage, film and television. Early life and education Lillian Crombie was born in 1958. She was of the Pitjantjatjara/ Yankunytjatjara people of central Australia, but was taken from her parents at the age of seven and never saw them again. She grew up in a loving home with foster parents in Port Pirie, South Australia. Crombie trained in classical ballet at the Port Pirie Ballet School, before winning a scholarship to Dance Concert Limited in Sydney, which started at the beginning of 1975, when she was 16. There she learnt and performed various cultural dances, such as the maypole dance, and in that year also did a dance and drama course at the National Black Theatre in Redfern. She then joined National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) as one of their first intake of students in 1976, and joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartland (Australian TV Series)
''Heartland'', known as ''Burned Bridge'' in some countries, is an Australian television drama series that ran on ABC Television in 1994. It ran for 13 episodes and starred Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo, as well as a large number of Aboriginal Australian actors. Plot ''Heartland'' deals with the mystery surrounding the death of an Aboriginal girl and the doubts concerning the guilt of her boyfriend, who is arrested for her murder. It is also a love story between two of the people convinced of his innocence — their growing relationship must survive hostility from both the white and black communities and the obstacles of their different backgrounds, attitudes and cultures. Set in a small coastal town against the turmoils of murder, mystery and romance, ''Heartland'' follows the people from this seaside community and their battle to restructure their own way of life. Their struggle to restore their self-esteem towards a positive future, despite the obstacles in their path. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN (TV station), ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every Australian states and territories, state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC Radio and Regional Content, ABC radio and ABC Online, online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Butcher
Sammy Tjapanangka Butcher is an Pitjantjatjara– Warlpiri musician who formed the Warumpi Band. Biography Butcher was born at Papunya, Northern Territory in Central Australia. His mother's side is from the south, the Pitjantjatjara tribe and his father's side from the Walpiri from Pikilyi, near Yinjirrimardi area. He formed the Warumpi Band with George Burarrwanga, Neil Murray and Gordon Butcher in the late 1970s. Butcher released a solo album ''Desert Surf Guitar'' on CAAMA music. The album's name was inspired by the sand hills surrounding Papunya, "you can imagine them as being huge red waves on the ocean" He was the subject of the documentary ''Sammy Butcher, Out of the Shadows'', part of the ''Nganampa Anwernekenhe'' series. The documentary looks at his life after the Warumpi Band. He is renowned as one of the best guitar players to come out of Central Australia. He now lives in Papunya, west of Alice Springs. In 2024 Butcher cowrote the musical ''Big name, No blank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warumpi Band
Warumpi Band () were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory, in 1980. The original line-up was George Burarrwanga on vocals and didgeridoo, Gordon Butcher Tjapanangka on drums, his brother Sammy Butcher Tjapanangka on guitar and bass guitar, and Neil Murray on rhythm guitar and backing vocals. Their songs are in English, Luritja and Gumatj. Their key singles are " Blackfella/Whitefella" (1985), "Sit Down Money" (1986), " My Island Home" (1987) and "No Fear" (1987). The group released three albums, '' Big Name, No Blankets'' (1985), '' Go Bush!'' (1987) and '' Too Much Humbug'' (1996). From late 1987 to mid-1995 the group rarely performed as Murray focused on his solo career. In early 1995, Christine Anu (former backing singer in Murray's touring group, The Rainmakers), issued a cover version of "My Island Home". Warumpi Band regrouped before disbanding in 2000. History 1980-1987: Career beginnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Us Your Tiddas!
''Show Us Your Tiddas!'' is a play written and performed by Lou Bennett and directed by Rachael Maza in 2007. ''Show Us Your Tiddas!'' shares its name with the last album by Bennett's band Tiddas, spelt ''Show Us Ya Tiddas''. It is an autobiographical An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share thei ... work that follows Bennetts life, telling stories such as her coming out to her family, her first live performance, moving to the city and her time with Tiddas. Bennett's performance is backed by members of her current band Sweet Cheeks. review: Show Us Ya Tiddas! , Lou Bennett
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