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Sisters Of War
''Sisters of War'' is a telemovie based on the true story of two Australian women, Lorna Whyte, an army nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Catholic nun from New South Wales who survived as prisoners of war in Papua New Guinea during World War II.David Knox (25 October 2010Airdate: Sisters of War: TV Tonightwww.tvtonight.com.au – Retrieved 2010-11-12. ''Sisters of War'' was written by John Misto, produced by Andrew Wiseman and directed by Brendan Maher. It made its debut at the Brisbane International Film Festival on 11 November 2010.Nun's POW story draws family to film festival www.cathnews.com – Retrieved 2010-11-11. It premiered on television on 14 November 2010 on Australian channel |
John Misto
John Misto (born 13 October 1952) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of New South Wales, and then practised as a lawyer before changing his career to concentrate on working as a recognized theatre and television writer. Select credits *'' A Country Practice'' (1981) *'' Waterloo Station'' (1983) *'' The Young Doctors'' (1983) *''Starting Out'' (1983) *'' Palace of Dreams'' (1985) -2 episodes *''Natural Causes'' (1985) *'' Dancing Daze'' (1986) *'' The Last Frontier'' (1986) *''Dusty'' (1988) (TV series) *''Touch the Sun: Peter and Pompey'' (1988) (TV movie) *'' The Dirtwater Dynasty'' (1988) *'' The Fremantle Conspiracy'' (1988) *'' G.P.'' (1989–91) – 3 episodes *'' Butterfly Island'' (1993) (TV movie) *'' The Damnation of Harvey McHugh'' (1994) – creator, 13 episodes *'' The Day of the Roses'' (1998) *'' Finding Hope'' (2001) (TV movie) *'' Heroes' Mountain'' (2002) (TV movie) *'' MDA'' (2002) – 1 epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lark Force
Lark Force was an Australian Army formation established in March 1941 during World War II for service in New Britain and New Ireland. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Scanlan, it was raised in Australia and deployed to Rabaul and Kavieng, aboard SS ''Katoomba'', MV ''Neptuna'' and HMAT ''Zealandia'', to defend their strategically important harbours and airfields. The objective of the force, was to maintain a forward air observation line as long as possible and to make the enemy fight for this line rather than abandon it at the first threat as the force was considered too small to withstand any invasion. Most of Lark Force was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army after Rabaul and Kavieng were captured in January 1942. The officers of Lark Force were taken to Japan, but while the NCOs and men were being transported to the Chinese island of Hainan aboard the '' Montevideo Maru'', the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the ''USS'' Sturgeon. Only a handful of the Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Films
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Australian Television Films
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Paul Bishop (actor)
Paul Bishop is an Australian actor and politician who has served as the Division 10 Councillor in Redland City since 2012. Early life Bishop was born in Gladstone, Queensland and raised in Wynnum, Queensland. He attended Brisbane State High School. Career Bishop's film debut was in Bruce Beresford's 1997 movie '' Paradise Road'', and appeared as Sergeant Ben Stewart on ''Blue Heelers'' from 1998 to 2004 for which he received Logie nominations in both 1999 and 2000. Other roles include the telemovie '' Never Tell me Never'', '' MDA III'', ''Heartbreak High'', and '' G.P.'' with ABCTV, '' House Gang'' with SBS, and ''Murder Call'' for Channel 9. Theatre roles include ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', '' Three Days of Rain'', '' Money and Friends'', ''Take Me Out'', ''The Shaughraun'', at Melbourne Theatre Company, ''Blackrock'', '' The John Wayne Principle'' and Anthony Crowley's '' The Frail Man'' at Melbourne's Playbox, '' The John Wayne Principle'', ''As You Like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus Province
Manus Province is the smallest Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province in Papua New Guinea in terms of both land area and population, with a land area of , but with more than of water, and the total population is 60,485 (2011 census). The provincial town of Manus is Lorengau. The province consists of only one district (Manus District; with identical boundaries to those of the province), 12 local government area, Local Level Governments (LLGs) and 127 electoral ward, Wards. The province is made up of the Admiralty Islands (a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago), as well as Wuvulu Island and nearby atolls in the west, which collectively are referred to as the Western Islands, Papua New Guinea, Western Islands. The largest island in the group is Manus Island, where Lorengau and a former Manus Regional Processing Centre, Australian immigration detention centre are located. Flag The Manus friarbird, known locally as the chauka, is represented on the Manus provincial fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Ireland Province
New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg (), and Nova Hibernia, is the northeasternmost Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. Physical geography The largest island of the province is New Ireland (island), New Ireland. Also part of the province are numerous smaller islands, including Saint Matthias Group (Mussau Island, Mussau, Emirau Island, Emirau), New Hanover Island, New Hanover, Dyaul Island, Djaul, Tabar Group (Tabar Island, Tabar, Tatau Island, Tatau, Simberi Island, Simberi), Lihir Island, Lihir, Tanga Group (Malendok, Boang) and Feni Islands (Ambitle, Babase) commonly called Anir Islands. The land area of the province is around . The sea area within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of New Ireland Province is around . Ecology In the early days of the French Revolution while searching for a lost scientific expedition the vessel La Recherche passed by New Ireland. On board was the prominent botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabaul
Rabaul () is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It lies about to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in the province until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash from a volcanic eruption in its harbor. During the eruption, ash was sent thousands of metres into the air, and the subsequent rain of ash caused 80% of the buildings in Rabaul to collapse. After the eruption the capital was moved to Kokopo, about away. Rabaul is continually threatened by volcanic activity, because it is on the edge of the Rabaul caldera, a flooded caldera of a large pyroclastic shield volcano. Rabaul was planned and built around the harbour area known as Simpsonhafen (Simpson Harbour) during the German New Guinea administration, which controlled the region from 1884 and formally through 1919. Rabaul was selected as the capital of the German New Guinea administration in 1905, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay, New South Wales
Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local government in Australia, local government area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains. Located approximately midway between Sydney and Adelaide at the junction of the Sturt Highway, Sturt, Cobb Highway, Cobb and Mid-Western Highways, Hay is an important regional and national transport node. The town itself is built beside the Murrumbidgee River, part of the Murray–Darling Basin, Murray–Darling river system; Australia's largest. The main business district of Hay is situated on the north bank of the river. History Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal communities in the western Riverina were traditionally concentrated in the more habitable river corridors and amongst the reedbeds of the region. The district surrounding Hay was occupied by at least three separate Aboriginal groups at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Britain
New Britain () is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi Island, Umboi the Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea), Dampier and Vitiaz Straits) and from New Ireland (island), New Ireland by St. George's Channel (Papua New Guinea), St. George's Channel. The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul/Kokopo and Kimbe. The island is roughly the size of Taiwan. When the island was part of German New Guinea, its name was Neupommern ("New Pomerania"). In common with most of the Bismarcks it was largely formed by volcanic processes, and has active volcanoes including Ulawun (highest volcano nationally), Langila, the Garbuna Group, the Sulu Range, and the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan (volcano), Vulcan of the Rabaul caldera. A major eruption of Tavurvur in 1994 destroyed the East New Britain provincial capital of Rabaul. Most of the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast. It is available for purchase both online and in paper form throughout Queensland and most regions of Northern New South Wales. History 19th century origins The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four mastheads. The '' Moreton Bay Courier'' later became '' The Courier'', then the '' Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the ''Daily Mail'' in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Its first editorial promised to "make known the wants of the community ... to rouse the apathetic, to inform the ignorant ... to transmit truthful representations of the state of this unrivalled portion of the colony to o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
