Tag: Brisbane

  • League legend fights for life

    Indigenous rugby league legend Dale Shearer is fighting for his life in Brisbane’s Royal Hospital after being involved in a horrific car crash. Shearer was returning to his Peregian Springs home on Saturday night after celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Noosaville restaurant. The accident occurred around 11pm along the Sunshine mwy. Shearer was pulled […]

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  • Mentor For Young And Old

    Name: Aunty Honor Cleary In traditional language, ‘yelangi’ means ‘meeting place’. At the Yelangi Pre-school at Indooroopilly in Brisbane, Aboriginal kids have been meeting Aunty Honor Cleary for more than 25 years. Not only does Honor help the “little people”, as she likes to call them, the centre is also a major resource for the […]

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  • Coming up Roses

    Name: Davina Kelly A talented young teacher makes her mark A visual arts teacher from Brisbane was recently chosen as a finalist in Australia’s most prestigious Indigenous art award. Davina Kelly, a visual arts teacher at Southbank Institute, was recently selected as a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award […]

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  • Darryl White

    Deadly Vibe Issue 87 May 2004 With three premiership medals in his trophy cabinet, Darryl is one of the most exciting AFL players to watch. His spectacular marks and beguiling evasive skills, combined with his love of flying tackles, make him a crowd favourite. A bit of a tearaway as a youngster, Darryl has turned […]

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  • Tracey Moffatt

    Deadly Vibe Issue 84 February, 2004 In the art world, Brisbane-born photographer Tracey Moffatt is an international superstar. Nowadays, she calls New York home but she recently spent a few months back in her home town working and catching up with family and friends. She also travelled to Sydney to open a major retrospective of […]

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  • Anthony Corrie

    Deadly Vibe Issue 98 April 2005 Roar Power Young Lions star Anthony Corrie is making his mark. The media have referred to him as “exciting”, “dashing”, and “one of his team’s best”. Anthony Corrie has been a stand-out player so far this season, and by the looks of things, the only way is up. “I […]

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  • Roslyn Watson

    Deadly Vibe Issue 102 August 2005 Dancing Queen The first Australian Aboriginal classical ballet dancer was Roslyn Watson, who was born in 1954 in Brisbane of Biri descent. Roslyn began dancing when she was only 12 and at 15 she was awarded an Abstudy grant and enrolled in the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. After […]

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  • Noonga Reconciliation Group (NRG)

    Deadly Vibe Issue 103 September 2005 Sharing the Spirit Thinking nationally by acting locally ” reconciliation is alive and kicking in Brisbane. A special reconciliation group in Brisbane is bringing reconciliation alive through education, healthy debate and good old fashioned fun. Noonga Reconciliation Group (NRG) was established in August 1997 during the time of the […]

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