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The Coolbaroo Club [videorecording] / written by Steve Kinnane, Lauren Marsh, Roger Scholes ; produced by Penny Robins ; directed by Roger Scholes

Record no:

61741

Call no:

T/572.9941 COO

Author:

Kinnane, Stephen, 1967- ; Marsh, Lauren, 1961- ; Scholes, Roger ; Robins, Penny ; Coolbaroo Club Productions Pty Ltd ; Ronin Films

Publisher:

[Australia]: Ronin Films and Coolbaroo Club productions in association with Annamax Media

Year:

1996

Description:

1 videocassette (VHS) (55min.) : sd., col.

Subject:

Coolbaroo Club;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Perth - History - 1946-1965;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - History - 1946-1965;
Perth (W.A.) - Race relations - History - 1945-1965;
Perth (W.A.) - Social conditions - History - 1945-1965;

Western Australia - Social conditions - 1945-1965;

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Notes:

Music by Lucky Oceans.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

A study of what life was like for many Aboriginal Australians in post-World War II, Western Australia. From 1946 to the early 1960s, the Coolbaroo Club was a meeting place and a focus for the West Australian Aboriginal community. Coolbaroo was the only

Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practised unofficial apartheid, submitting Aboriginal people to police harassment, identity cards, fraternisation bans, curfews, and bureaucratic obstructions.

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