Jill Walsh Jill Walsh i(A117849 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 2 Winging My Way to the Top Karen Strahan , Jill Walsh , 2014 single work musical theatre

'Fame was within reach…until Pearl stole the show. Winging My Way to the Top is about sibling rivalry, fragile egos and a second chance at the big time. The Diamond sisters still have a strong bond after all these years – despite “the incident” in 1986. After 30 years the Diamond sisters finally get to star in their own musical!

'The premiere of this original Australian musical comedy is about your typical (or not so typical) Aussie family trying to find acceptance, respect and ultimately love, but as far as Ruby is concerned, it’s all about status. Be outraged at the pomposity of Ruby’s life partner, the arrogantly wealthy Godfrey Goldsmith.

'Straight-talking hard-drinking housewife Beryl, the matriarch, is still very much in love with her chubby, grubby, loyal hubby of nearly 25 years Charlie Cheapside. The youngest sister, Pearl clings tenaciously to her dream of being a star, despite all the undermining.' (Production summary)

1 5 y separately published work icon Iwenhe Tyerrtye : What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person Margaret Kemarre Turner , Barry McDonald , Jill Walsh (editor), Margaret Kemarre Turner (translator), Veronica Dobson (translator), Alice Springs : IAD Press , 2010 Z1695094 2010 selected work life story

'Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. These responsible relationships are her primary motivation to document for younger Aboriginal people, alongside her student and alere Barry McDonald Perrurle, her cultured understanding of the deep and interwining roots that hold all Australian Aboriginal people: Because if people like me and the other grandmothers we don't teach them now, then they probably won't get much more chances to learn.

'Margaret Kemarre Turner was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1997, 'for service to the Aboriginal community of Central Australia, particularly through preserving language and culture, and interpreting'. With Iwenhe Tyerrtye, Margaret Kemarre lays the knowledge foundations for an enhanced and extended dialogue, so that 'two cultures can hold each other':

'You've gotte talk, and really analyse words...to really get a full meaning of it... You cannot say anything without doing that...And that's how many, many things we as Aboriginal people have never described. Because it's really hard to describe to others the picture that we've got in our head. If they can't see that good picture, then there's no answer. Sometimes non-Aboriginal people go away with no answer then, and we're left with no answer as well.

'Margaret Kemarre's knowledge comes through her own Akarre language, though it is in Arrernte that she shares this generous giving of her profound world view. The translations between Arrernte and English are facilitated through the respectful relationship she shares with her niece, Veronica Perrurle Dobson.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

1 Taking the Process into Their Own Hands Jill Walsh , 1999 single work essay
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 37 no. 3 1999; (p. 13-16)
A description of the mission and arts advocacy role of the publishing house Magabala Books.
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