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3on3 Keeps the Rain at Bay
Not even the threat of a cyclone could keep the community of Gladstone from coming out in force for the Vibe 3on3™. The good vibes just keep on spreading across the country, with the Vibe 3on3™ stopping off at the community of Gladstone in northern Queensland on the weekend of March 25 and 26. Gladstone […]
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Dancing With Destiny – Sermsah Bin Saad
Sometimes things happen for a reason, almost like the universe has reached out and tapped you on the shoulder, drawing your attention towards a new path in life. This is certainly how things happened for Sermsah Bin Saad, or Suri as Australia has come to know him through the hit reality TV show So You […]
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Indigenous Community Festivals for Education Expanded
The Minister for Education today announced that more Indigenous communities will have the opportunity to participate in community festivals in 2008. The Australian Government provides $3.05 million annually under the Community Festivals for Education Engagement program to support targeted events that encourage school attendance, retention and healthy lifestyles for all young Australians, in particular Aboriginal […]
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Award offers $5000 for creative youth
Cemented in its fourth year, the annual Yvonne Cohen Award for Creative Indigenous Australian Youth, is a national award offering $5000 to aid in the creative future potential of a talented young Indigenous Australian artist 30 years of age or younger. This award empowers Indigenous Australian youth in pursuit of their creative endeavours and is […]
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Kimberley Satellite Dialysis Service
Service gives real hope to remote kidney patients The Kimberley Satellite Dialysis Service is truly unique. Run by the Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service (BRAMS), it’s the first community-controlled, Aboriginal health organisation-operated tertiary dialysis unit in Australia. This groundbreaking service employs Aboriginal health workers to look after Aboriginal kidney patients. Aboriginal health workers work side-by-side […]
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Sacred Heart School (Beagle Bay Broome WA)
Winner: Tessimah Bin Maarus School: Sacred Heart School (Beagle Bay Broome WA) The Vibe/DETYA team then took to the air and headed for Broome for the second barbeque. The team arrived in Beagle Bay near Broome and headed for Sacred Heart School, where again the weather was great and the day went according to plan. […]
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Queens of the Kimberley
Deadly Vibe Issue 106, December 2005 A new competition celebrates the beauty of the Kimberley Region. The Kimberley Region of North West Australia is unique in its beauty and its diversity. To celebrate this, a special event has been held for the past two years that recognises and showcases the distinctive qualities of this area. […]
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Fitzroy Express
Deadly Vibe Issue 104, October 2005 Xpress Delivery They came all the way from the Kimberley – and took home a Deadly In 1982, a group of school kids were fortunate enough to gain access to some band equipment purchased by the Fitzroy Crossing High School and put together a set of six songs to […]
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Going Bush
Deadly Vibe Issue 108 February 2006 Outback Odyssey Cathy and Deb head for the outback in a journey of discovery that changes them both forever. It’s a big country, Australia. This wide, brown land contains some of the most beautiful and diverse landscapes, flora and fauna in the world. Equally as varied are its people, […]
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Warumpi Band
Warumpi is the name of a honey-ant dreaming site near the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya, 250 km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. In 1983, the Warumpi Band released the first-ever rock tune in an Aboriginal language (Luritja) – “Jailanguru Pakamu”. The following year they released their debut album Big Name No Blankets, […]
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Marlon Motlop
New Sensations The recent 2007 AFL draft saw a new batch of young Indigenous footballers graduate into the nation’s elite football league. Deadly Vibe profiles this year’s top Indigenous draftees. Cyril Rioli Boasting an enviable footballing pedigree (he is the nephew of AFL legends Maurice Rioli and Michael Long), Cyril Rioli entered the draft with […]
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Saltwater Band
Deadly Vibe Issue 110 April 2006 A Royal Occasion Saltwater Band says “Nhämirri nhe”* to Her Majesty the Queen. STORY: The fellas from Saltwater Band from Elcho Island were invited by the Prime Minister to open the procession in a special service at Sydney’s St Andrew’s Cathedral for Queen Elizabeth II while she was visiting […]
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Kerrianne Cox
Kerrianne Cox breaks from summer in Broome after a globetrotting year.Many of us know and love the music of Kerrianne Cox. Her songs are a blend of country, folk and blues, with inspiring lyrics drawn from her own life experiences. Singing about love, family life and her strong connection to the land, Kerrianne’s distinctive voice […]
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Everlyn Sampi
It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Leading Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce was searching for that one special lead to carry a movie he was passionate about making. He searched high. He searched low. He engaged just about every casting agent in the country, visited remote Aboriginal communities and advertised in countless newsletters. Eventually somebody […]
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Cathy Freeman
Back to the Bush Cathy Freeman packs up the four-wheel drive and hits the road for another outback adventure. It seems once you get a taste for the bush, you just have to come back for more. After going through what she called a “life-changing experience” during the making of the first series of the […]
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Len Collard
Len Collard has been surfing since he was 13 years old, and says he got into the sport because “my friends were doing it and I wanted to hang out with them!” Born in Pingelly, Western Australia, Len now resides in Spearwood, a suburb of Perth, and is well known in the area as a […]
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