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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 min.) ; 168768296 bytes |
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*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program contains images and voices of people who have died*Love and Fury celebrates the life, work and love of two remarkable Australians - Judith Wright and H.C. 'Nugget' Coombs. Their clandestine relationship over 25 years has been one of the best-kept secrets in Australian literary and political public life. The story of their meeting, their love and their shared passions provides unique insights into the dreams and disappointments of a generation.Wright (1915-2000) is revered as one of Australia's foremost literary figures. As a poet, essayist and activist she dedicated herself to writing and fighting for a more humane Australia. Her passion was the land and the first Australians. She was often furious about what she saw as the betrayal of both. Her creative enterprise as a poet engaged deeply with very contemporary concerns of philosophy and language.Coombs (1906-1997) was a policy intellectual, a 'sage' and an advisor to governments at the highest level from Curtin to Whitlam and beyond. He devoted the last decades of his life to the most rigorous commitment to Indigenous Australia.They each had enormous ambitions for Australian culture and society. Their meeting in the early 1970s, when Coombs was 66 and Wright was 57, was at a time of great optimism - a period when their shared ambitions for a new kind of Australia seemed achievable.This is a story of two people whose love, work and knowledge have much to tell us still |
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Broadcast 2013-04-23 at 22:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Wright, Judith, 1915-2000.
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Coombs, H. C. (Herbert Cole), 1906-.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Women poets.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Hughes, John, director
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Koval, Ramona, cast
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Capp, Fiona, contributor
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Coombs, Melanie, contributor
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Hawke, John, contributor
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Howard, Tabitha, contributor
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McEwan, Jim, contributor
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McKinney, Meredith, contributor
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Norris, Jane, contributor
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Rowse, Tim, contributor
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Sharp, Nonie, contributor
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Tulloch, Richard, contributor
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