The Bush Gang
''The Bush Gang'' is an Australian children's series which first screened on the ABC in 1981.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 95 Cast * Danny Adcock * Linda Hartley * Penny Ramsey * Simon Austin * Joanne Long * Vanessa Windsor References External links *''The Bush Gang''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Bush Gang, The Australian children's television series 1981 Australian television series debuts ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Laura Jones (screenwriter)
Laura Jones (born 1951) is an Australian screenwriter. Jones started her career writing teleplays for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her first feature film credit was the original screenplay for ''High Tide'' (1987), directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Judy Davis. This was followed by her adaptation of the Janet Frame autobiography, '' An Angel at My Table'' (1990), which was directed by Jane Campion. She collaborated again with Campion, this time on '' The Portrait of a Lady'' (1996). The following years saw her team up with Armstrong on '' Oscar and Lucinda'', as well as work on other literary adaptations for Hollywood. Jones is a strong supporter of Australian filmmaking and during the 1990s served on the Australian Film Commission. She is the daughter of Australian author Jessica Anderson. Career Laura Jones spent the beginning of her adult life doing odd jobs. During the mid- 70s she was living in Canberra with her husband and daughter, who took ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Penny Ramsey
Penny Ramsey (25 June 1947 – 11 February 2009) was an Australian character actress. Her work is featured in over three decades of classic Australian TV series. Her credits include ''Prisoner'', ''The Bush Gang'', ''Matlock Police'', ''Homicide'', ''Number 96'', '' The Box'', ''Division 4'', '' Mrs. Finnegan'', ''Riptide'' and ''Anything Goes''. Filmography FILM TELEVISION Personal life Her partner was the Australian actor Rod Mullinar, she was the daughter of Cuthbert Ramsey and actress Lois Ramsey. Ramsey died of unspecified cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bl ... in 2009, aged 61. References External links * 2009 deaths 1947 births Australian film actresses Australian soap opera actresses Actresses from Adelaide Deaths from cancer i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ABC (Australian TV Channel)
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The network began operating on 5 November 1956 as the ABC National Television Service, starting in Sydney, followed by Melbourne, with other stations being established in state capitals and regional areas in the following years. In the 1960s and 1970s, the network was also referred to as ABC National Television, or ABC Television. Until the introduction of digital television in 2001, the network was the only domestic television service broadcast by the ABC. On 8 February 2008, the channel was renamed ABC1, before being rebranded as ABC TV on 20 July 2014. As of 2022, the ABC is the third-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network and Nine Netwo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Danny Adcock
Danny Adcock (born 29 June 1948) is an Australian actor, known for his work in television and theatre. His television acting roles include 7 different roles in Crawford Production series ''Matlock Police'' as the killer of Michael Pate's character, ''Division 4'', ''Homicide'', ''Patrol Boat'', '' Sons and Daughters'' as Joe Parker, ''Prisoner'' as Deputy Governor Geoff Carlson of fictional prison Woodridge, ''A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Fire'' as "Nugget", ''Blue Heelers'', '' All Saints'', '' Stingers'', and ''Home and Away'' as Bishop Pitt. Long Lost Family 2 more Season between 2014 And 2015 He was a regular cast member of short-lived soap opera '' Arcade'' (1980) as Duncan Adams. In ''Farscape'' he played T'raltixx in the second-season episode " Crackers Don't Matter", and Co-Kura Strappa, a recurring character throughout the third season. His first film role was in '' The Cars That Ate Paris''. He played a small part in the films ''Quigley Down Under'' sta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Linda Hartley
Linda Hartley-Clark (born 28 December 1967) is an Australian actress who played Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'' from 1989 to 1990. She also did a guest stint in 2005 playing Gabrielle Walker, who in the storyline was recognised by Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) as Kerry's lookalike. Linda also played a small character in the first year of Neighbours called Gloria Slater, who was a friend/colleague of Paul Robinson. In 2004 and 2006, Hartley-Clark provided voiceovers for Kerry's diary being read by her daughter Sky Mangel (Stephanie McIntosh). Before this she appeared in children's drama series ''Home'', and in ''Prisoner'' as Roach Waters in 1986. Hartley-Clark lives in Melbourne with her husband, John Clark (married since 1989, (former drummer with Craig McLachlan Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Australian actor, musician, singer and composer. He has been involved in film, television, the music industry and music theatre for ove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Australian Children's Television Series
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia Australian is an historic unincorporated community on the Fraser River in the Cariboo Country of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from that of the Australian Ranch, one of British Columbia's first ranching oper ..., an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |