{"id":47,"date":"2022-05-27T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualisingvenues.unimelb.edu.au\/ppre\/\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2022-08-28T05:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T05:03:55","slug":"galiwinku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualisingvenues.unimelb.edu.au\/ppre\/galiwinku\/","title":{"rendered":"Going on to Galiwin\u2019ku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The troupe arrived in Galiwin\u2019ku<\/a>, Elcho Island, on a Tuesday morning. After setting up, they spent the rest of the morning getting to know the locals, including George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga of the Warumpi Band and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 1988 wasn\u2019t only the tenth anniversary of the founding of Circus Oz. It was also the year of the Australian bicentenary. In fact, the company had received funding from the Australian Bicentennial Authority to undertake its world tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, with its history of support for the cause of Indigenous land rights, it was never likely that the company would embrace the celebratory mood of the official bicentennial marketing and merchandising campaign. In fact, the 1988 show featured a number of clowning routines that questioned the complacency and entitlement of the bicentenary hoopla. One of these, performed at all their Arnhem Land shows, features a character called the Bicentennial Inspector for Gasbagging and Self-Congratulation who tries to censor lines in an anti-bicentenary rap.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Circus Oz \"kangaroo\" outside the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap in 1985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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