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Article: The minister, the ambassador, and the prize.(Culture ... a film about Australian aboriginal rites is honoured )
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- December 1, 2003
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FUNNY THINGS happen in Canberra. But the happening staged by Mr W.C. Wentworth and the Italian Ambassador thirty-five years ago was not just funny, it was to have peculiar and fateful consequences. On Thursday November 28, 1968, at the News and Information Bureau, the screening of a film took place which had won First Prize for Documentary at the 1968 Venice Festival, Walbiri Ritual at Ruguri. At the screening the Ambassador was to present an effigy of the Lion of St Mark to Mr Wentworth as the minister responsible for the organisation which had produced the film, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Catering was arranged, invitations were sent, and a number of ...
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