Sally butler ernie dingo biography
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Unsung Ordinary Men – A Generation Like No Other
Description
Title: Unsung Ordinary Men – A Generation Like No Other
Author: Dingo, Sally
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780733625244
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 384 pages
Comments:An extraordinary, unique and potentially prize-winning book from bestselling author Sally Dingo.
UNSUNG ORDINARY MEN by Sally Dingo is a very personal investigation into the ongoing effects of war on the soldiers, their wives and children when a soldier came home. UNSUNG ORDINARY MEN was inspired by Sally s own experiences when her father returned from World War II. Sally’s father died when she was 12 years old. Through the pages of this book Sally Dingo will give a voice to the sorrow she and many others still feel, for they were not aware of what their fathers and brothers and husbands (as well as the brave women who were POW nurses) had to go through.
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Ernie Dingo
Australian actor and television presenter
Ernie Dingo AM | |
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Dingo was a top presenter on The Great Outdoors | |
| Born | (1956-07-31) 31 July 1956 (age 68) Bullardoo Station, Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, television presenter, comedian |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse | Sally Ashton-Dingo (nee Butler) (1989–2011) |
| Children | 5 |
Ernest Ashley DingoAM (born 31 July 1956) is an Indigenous Australian actor, television presenter and comedian, originating from the Yamatji people of the Murchison region of Western Australia. He is a designated Australian National Living Treasure.
Background
[edit]Born Ernest Ashley Dingo on 31 July 1956, at Bullardoo Station,[1] Dingo was the second child of nine, with three brothers and five sisters. He grew up in Mullewa, Western Australia with his family.[2] Ernie's younger brother Murray died in a car accident in August 2007.[2][3]
He a
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Hardback. The story of one of Australia's most loved spelfilm and television personalities. The Dingo family history follows the formula of any self-respecting soap opera. It's full of life, death, laughter, violence, struggle, children, poverty, alcohol, and surprisingly after all that, success. It fryst vatten the stuff of overblown fiction. It is also a history shared with every other Aboriginal family, a history still unknown to many Australians. Dingo makes that incredible story truly accessible to non-Aboriginal Australians. Told through the eyes of Ernie Dingo's wife, utflykt, it comes alive. It is also Sally's story. Emerging from her vit middle-class existence in a sleepy Tasmanian town, framstöt marries a charismatic actor and the turbulent Dingo tribe. She finds much to love and much to cry about. With the unique perspective of a vit woman adopted by an Aboriginal family who fryst vatten able to write about her experiences with great skill and warmth, Dingo is a story to be treas