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May O’Brien wins Deadly Award

16th October 2009

Bawoo Stories author May O’Brien has won the 2009 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education.

May was chosen from some 8000 nominations and 80 finalists for this coveted prize and travelled to Sydney to accept the award in front of a 2000-strong crowd at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

Other winners on the night were The Yabu Band, Jessica Mauboy, The Saltwater Band, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Seaman Dan, The Last Kinnection, Jamal Idris, Michael O’Loughlin, Johnathan Thurston, Rohanee Cox, Danny Morseau, Warwick Thornton, Lorraine McGee-Sippell, Luke Carroll, Destiny Deacon, Marlene Cummins, Chicka Dixon, the Traditional Credit Union and Leah Purcell.

They were joined by special guests Jessica Mauboy, Casey Donovan and the Doonooch Dancers. The Deadlys are in their fifteenth year.

For more information please contact Claire Miller, cmiller@fremantlepress.com.au

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Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au