Closely involved in the arts,
music ,
Aboriginal and Islander advancement and journalism in North Australia ,
Chips Mackinolty , on a well deserved sabbatical from Darwin , is now apparently ensconced in Italy .
Chips was a
prominent player in
the Townsville arts and theatre scene
back in the l980s ; there he backed
the successful application for a
licence for community radio station , 4TTT.
In a submission to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Mackinolty ,in his capacity as co- community arts officer at Townsville Cultural Association, said he was not overstating the case by saying it was imperative for Townsville , a growing and changing city, to have such a facility . He attached a strongly worded , somewhat whimsical , paper he had delivered to an Australian Institute of Political Science conference on the funding and administration of the arts .
He took a party of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers to a South Pacific Festival in Papua New Guinea and eventually moved to the Territory . In the NT , he became closely associated with Aboriginal communities, the early land rights movement and the vibrant art and music beat , churning out political posters and prints . Earlier this year he announced that after some 30 odd years in the Territory he intended to take a break from all his hectic activities .
In a submission to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Mackinolty ,in his capacity as co- community arts officer at Townsville Cultural Association, said he was not overstating the case by saying it was imperative for Townsville , a growing and changing city, to have such a facility . He attached a strongly worded , somewhat whimsical , paper he had delivered to an Australian Institute of Political Science conference on the funding and administration of the arts .
In
it he touched
on Professor Geoffrey
Blainey’s theme of the tyranny
of distance influencing
Australia’s development, World
War 11 “ Brisbane Line ” thinking , “ the
bloody long way
from anywhere ” attitude to
North Queensland and the
high cost of
bringing cultural shows
north .
He took a party of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers to a South Pacific Festival in Papua New Guinea and eventually moved to the Territory . In the NT , he became closely associated with Aboriginal communities, the early land rights movement and the vibrant art and music beat , churning out political posters and prints . Earlier this year he announced that after some 30 odd years in the Territory he intended to take a break from all his hectic activities .
