Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Australian Theatre of The Deaf - NSW Theatre of the Deaf - Giant - Promotional Flyer"
  Australian Theatre of the Deaf promotional flyer for NSW Theatre of the Deaf show Giant, described as “a work devised by Margi Brown and company, based on two poems bv Pablo Naruda and the short story of "The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.”
• Samantha Wilson
• Nick Neary
• Nina Mishriky
• Maggie Johannsen
• Medina Sumovic
• Colin Thompson
• Ben Strout
• Adam Salzer
• “Australian Caption Centre opened in 1982”
  The Australian Caption Centre was opened 13 September, 1982. A tour took place at the Australian Caption Centre in Sydney in the 1990s; the video (now available on YouTube) explains how the Centre worked. In 2005, the Centre sold its commercial operations including the captioning services to Red Bee Media and formed Media Access Australia.
• "Touch the Sun - Captain Johnno - IMDB"
  Touch The Sun - Captain Johnno' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - "A deaf boy befriends an Italian fisherman in his village"
• “The Bolshy Divas present ‘The Other 100 Conversations’ to Australian governments heads”
  In 2011, a group of disability activists called the Bolshy Divas presented a 100-page document, ‘The Other 100 Conversations,’ to heads of all Australian governments who had gathered in Canberra for a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting. The document was addressed “to our elected representatives”. ‘The Other 100 Conversations’ comprised of 100 first-person accounts of participants of disability services in Western Australia, highlighting the lack of support and waiting times experienced.
• "Nola Colefax and Annee Lawrence (1999) Signs of change : my autobiography and the history of Australian Theatre of the Deaf 1973-83. Deaf Resources Australia"
  "The story of a small group of people making theatre history in a little known Australian community. The book interweaves the personal history of Nola Colefax with the history, culture and development of the deaf community." More on Nola Colefax's contribution to Theatre of the Deaf at https://web.archive.org/web/20241113210108/https://deafinnsw.com/nola-colefax.
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival
• Belvoir Street Theatre
• Noni Hazlehurst
• Margaret Bachus
• Medina Bucciarelli
• Mitzi Zaphir
• Ian Watson
• Hillary Beaton
• Hilary Beaton
• Graham Pitts
• Gareth Wilding Forbes