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Visual Symphonies - The Outback

Visual Symphonies - The Outback
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Visual Symphonies - The Outback
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NZ On Screen
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"Cultural ambassador" Lynn of Tawa — she of mangled vowel fame — explores the Australian outback in this travel slash comedy show. Alongside experiencing the vast, red heart of Australia, Lynn (played by Ginette McDonald) chats to correspondence school teachers, eccentric camel drivers and busloads of tourists taking in Uluru (Ayers Rock) at sunset. It's not all comic banter; McDonald hears first hand from her host Alec Ross about the deep grief felt by the stolen generation of Aboriginal chi...

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Video
Date created
1991
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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/visual-symphonies-the-outback-1991
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australia / alice springs / uluru / flying doctors / correspondence school / resort / damper / happy hour / tourists / tourism / aborigine / aboriginal / japan / caravan / stolen generation / forced adoption / christianity / methodists / sparkling wine / desert / galah / the olgas / surrey st / tawa junction / alcohol / bush / australian bush / assimilation / indigenous rights / nz on air / new zealand on air / silver fern / trains / afghanistan / railway / kmart / gallipoli / anzacs / anzac biscuits / golden syrup / lyn of tawa / palmerston north / tawa / taxi / air nz / travel show / cultural ambassador / digiridoo / alec ross / ross river / todd river / dreamtime / controversy / land rights / sacred sites / cattle whip / solar power / racism / boomerang / character comedy / camel / prawn / pool

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