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Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of RealTV. Angela received the Queensland Theatre Company/Comalco Young Playwrights award first when she was 16 and then three years running in 1994, 1995, and 1996. She also won the Queensland Theatre Company/Courier Mail George Landen Dann Award in 1998 for Queensland Playwriting. Hoods, commissioned by Sydney Opera House: Ed and Regional Arts Victoria, is Angelas most successful play to date. The play premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2006, has toured extensively in Australia and been seen by over forty thousand school children. In 2007 Hoods was included as part of the Come Out Festival for Young People and won an Australian Writers Guild Award for Theatre for Young Audiences as well as the inaugural Richard Wherrett Prize for Excellence in Playwriting, Australias richest playwriting award. Hoods, enjoyed a return season in 2008 as part of the ASSITEJ International Festival for Young People being performed at the Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse and was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Childrens Theatre. In 2009, Hoods was produced by Barking Gecko at Subiaco Arts Centre followed by a tour of Western Australian schools and regional centres. Angela was commissioned by Queensland Arts Council to write Children of the Black Skirt, produced by Real TV, which toured Queensland and Victorian schools for three years from 2003 to 2005. The play was also included as part of the Come Out Youth …
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The Gecko CLaN has undertaken a Pasture Cropping project titled ‘Profitable, sustainable cropping & grazing systems using Pasture Cropping principles after overwhelming interest was formed by farmers after an information session held with the Pasture Cropping Pioneer Colin Sesi from Gulgong NSW, Australia. The project was Funded by the Australian Government, Caring for our Country scheme where we have compleded trials over 18 months in the Goulburn Broken Catchments of North East Victoria, Australia durin 2008-9. Watch our 4 videos of the trials and learn what Pasture Croipping is and why innovative Australian Farmers are staring tro use this technique in ther farming enterprises.
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A three day, 2250km road trip by motorbike from Perth to Broome, then four days relaxing in Broome, with great friends, Beck Hills, Janet Sinclair and Tania Bury. The music is all West Australian, by Mike “Barney” Barnett and Blue Shaddy. You can contact Blue Shaddy at: www.blueshaddy.com, the album is BURY MY GHOST. The motorbike is a Honda Black Widow, one of only 4400 made and believed to be one of just four in Western Australia. Greg Quicke (Astro Tours), is also a motorcyle man, www.astrotours.net Many thanks also to another dear friend, Belinda Cornish, don’t miss her gallery in Broome, Gecko Gallery – www.geckogallery.com.au