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SONGS OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION<br />
YOUNG<br />
AUSTRALIANS<br />
VOICES OF ACHIEVEMENT<br />
SING NSW CHOIR<br />
SIROCCO
Expressing the journey of our lives<br />
through song is a fundamental<br />
part of who we are. We sing for the<br />
past and the present, we sing for<br />
the future, we sing in times of joy<br />
and times of sorrow, and we sing<br />
to find our place in the world.<br />
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<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong><br />
Voices of Achievement<br />
‘<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> – Voices of Achievement’, conceived by Paul Jarman in 2003, is exciting new choral<br />
music inspired by, written for and performed by our youth. Composed by Paul Jarman and Andrew<br />
DeTeliga in 2004/05, the project has been commissioned and supported by Jenny Gregory, director of<br />
Sing NSW, Department of Education and Training.<br />
Expressing the journey of our lives through song is a fundamental part of who we are. We sing for the<br />
past and the present, we sing for the future, we sing in times of joy and times of sorrow, and we sing<br />
to find our place in the world. ‘<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> – Voices of Achievement’ is a unique opportunity to<br />
reflect on our identity, celebrating through song the accomplishments of our youth.<br />
The rewards of this project have been numerous. The Sing NSW Choir, boys and girls, 10 to 16 years<br />
of age from across the state, have had the opportunity to work directly with the composers and<br />
performers of the piece. During rehearsals and recording, crucial artistic decisions were made<br />
collectively, and the children assisted as extra instrumentalists or with arrangement ideas. They have<br />
seen first hand how to express a powerful concept through writing words and music. Additionally,<br />
the young ladies and gentlemen who inspired these songs are their peers and have become heroes to<br />
the choir. The diversity of their achievements has been a great source of inspiration for all involved.<br />
This diversity lends itself to the musical accompaniment of Sirocco, pioneers of the global sound<br />
within Australia. Through orchestrations, words and melodies which evoke the vast sense of Australia<br />
and our mix of cultures both ancient and new, Paul Jarman and Andrew DeTeliga’s new song cycle has<br />
touched on many genres, yet defined its own, appealing to a broad, contemporary audience.<br />
The process of searching for the dedicatees of ‘<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> – Voices of Achievement’ is a<br />
journey into the heart of Australia’s future. Among those chosen are mountaineers, magicians,<br />
refugees, artists, dancers, adventurers, community leaders and aid workers. Some are household<br />
names, some have achieved personal triumph. Some have had to overcome severe hardships, while<br />
others are helping those in need. Each of these <strong>Australians</strong> will have a document of their own journey,<br />
expressed through song, to take with them through life.<br />
We salute our young <strong>Australians</strong>.<br />
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<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong><br />
Voices of Achievement<br />
1 Follow Your Dreams Dedicated to Jesse Martin 6’18<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga & Paul Jarman<br />
Orchestration by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman bouzouki, Andrew DeTeliga guitar, Peter Jacob puk & percussion,<br />
Jonathan Zwartz double bass, John Smiley harmonium, Michelle Kelly,<br />
Narine Melconian, Liisa Pallandi, Raj Kumar violin, Nicole Forsyth viola,<br />
Rosemary Quinn, Kaari Pallandi cello<br />
2 Better World Dedicated to Hugh Evans 4’01<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman piano & whistle, Andrew DeTeliga dobro, Peter Jacob djembe,<br />
Jonathan Zwartz double bass, Jessica Stocker percussion<br />
3 World of Magic Dedicated to Joel Howlett 3’42<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman piano, Peter Jacob puk, Jessica Stocker percussion,<br />
Jonathan Zwartz double bass, Arlene Fletcher narrator<br />
4 Time Enough to Give Dedicated to Natasha Eggins-Allman 4’27<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Cheryl Fitzgerald piano, Jonathan Zwartz double bass, Liisa Pallandi violin<br />
5 Children of the Dreamtime Dedicated to Stacey Kelly-Greenup,<br />
Becky Chatfield & Mitchell Chatfield 3’54<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga & Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman piano, Andrew DeTeliga dobro, Peter Jacob puk & percussion,<br />
Jonathan Zwartz double bass, Adam Hill didjeridu<br />
6 Freedom Cry Dedicated to Judy Bennett 7’13<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman bouzouki & tarogato, Peter Jacob djembe & percussion,<br />
Jonathan Zwartz double bass, Annabelle Prunster soprano<br />
7 Run the Gauntlet Dedicated to Sing NSW 3’36<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga<br />
Arranged by Paul Jarman<br />
Andrew DeTeliga frame drum, Peter Jacob tapan, Jessica Stocker djembe,<br />
Paul Jarman bombarde<br />
8 Mia’s Song Dedicated to Mia and Jane 5’24<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman piano, Lauren Easton solo vocal<br />
9 Set Me Free Dedicated to Salima Haidary 5’45<br />
Music, lyrics & orchestration by Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman piano, tarogato & whistle, Peter Jacob darabuka, Jonathan Zwartz<br />
double bass, John Smiley harmonium, Michelle Kelly, Narine Melconian,<br />
Liisa Pallandi, Raj Kumar violin, Nicole Forsyth viola, Rosemary Quinn,<br />
Kaari Pallandi cello, Andrew DeTeliga revop<br />
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0 The Will to Climb Dedicated to Christopher Harris 4’04<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Orchestration by Chris Gordon<br />
Paul Jarman piano, Peter Jacob djembe & percussion, Jonathan Zwartz double<br />
bass, Michelle Kelly, Narine Melconian, Liisa Pallandi, Raj Kumar violin,<br />
Nicole Forsyth viola, Rosemary Quinn, Kaari Pallandi cello<br />
! <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> 3’18<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga<br />
Arranged by Paul Jarman<br />
Cheryl Fitzgerald piano, Andrew DeTeliga guitar, Peter Jacob tapan & percussion,<br />
Paul Jarman tarogato<br />
Sing NSW Choir<br />
Sirocco<br />
Jenny Gregory conductor<br />
Total Playing Time 52’30<br />
revop – snakeskin lute from Western China (Uigher People)<br />
tarogato – keyless wooden saxophone made by Linsey Pollack (Australia)<br />
tapan – large double-sided drum made by Mark Binns (Australia)<br />
bombarde – Breton double-reed woodwind instrument made by<br />
Bill O’Toole (Australia)<br />
bouzouki – Greek lute<br />
darabuka – hand drum from the Middle East<br />
harmonium – bellows-blown organ from India<br />
dobro – resonator slide guitar<br />
djembe – African hand drum<br />
puk – double-skinned traditional Korean drum<br />
1 Follow Your Dreams<br />
Dedicated to Jesse Martin 6’18<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga<br />
& Paul Jarman<br />
Additional inspiration,<br />
Colin Offord<br />
Most <strong>Australians</strong> are<br />
familiar with Jesse<br />
Martin’s incredible<br />
story of courage and<br />
strength. ‘Lionheart’,<br />
his journey of the<br />
human spirit, earned him a place among the<br />
world’s greatest explorers and adventurers. He<br />
was 18 years old.<br />
In 1999, Jesse became the youngest person in<br />
history to sail solo around the world. His voyage<br />
began in December 1998, from his hometown of<br />
Melbourne, and won the hearts of millions<br />
across the globe. He was personally thanked by<br />
President Bill Clinton, and received recognition<br />
from many world leaders and fellow international<br />
yachtsmen and women. For ten months, Jesse’s<br />
adventure brought the world together.<br />
As a young boy backpacking around the world,<br />
Jesse quickly developed a taste for adventure,<br />
and by the age of 14 he had sailed a catamaran<br />
along Australia’s tropical coast. At 16 he had<br />
kayaked through the remote islands of Papua<br />
New Guinea, and then crewed on a yacht sailing<br />
from Belize to Tahiti. All this time he knew of his<br />
greatest dream. Nothing would get in his way.<br />
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Jesse has followed many pursuits since<br />
Lionheart. He is an active member of the Reach<br />
organisation and has also chartered the Kijana<br />
voyage, which gave his peers the chance to join<br />
Jesse on a similar quest. He is the author of two<br />
books, Lionheart and Kijana: The Real Story, the<br />
former produced as an award-winning<br />
documentary film. In his own words, “There are<br />
many people out there dreaming of great things,<br />
and it’s a good chance that your son, daughter,<br />
brother, sister or friend is one of them.” And<br />
from musician Ben Harper, “What you have<br />
done makes me proud to be a human being.”<br />
Jesse Martin inspires us all to follow our dreams.<br />
Whatever your dream, enjoy the adventure.<br />
Whatever your dream, don’t fear the unknown.<br />
Whatever you do, see where it takes you.<br />
You’re never alone. You’re never alone.<br />
Follow your dreams.<br />
Follow your dreams. Follow your heart.<br />
Fill your sails. Make a start.<br />
Time is flying on angel wings.<br />
Follow your heart. Follow your dreams.<br />
Waves are crashing over my boat.<br />
My friend my enemy keep me afloat.<br />
Day into night, night into day,<br />
Wild wet wind blow me away.<br />
The wind in the sky, the sky in the wind,<br />
Journey’s beginning, journey will end.
Don’t you be lonely, make her your friend.<br />
Hope on horizon, sunrise again.<br />
Ever so lonely, ever so lonely tonight,<br />
Surrounded by water, nothing but water in sight.<br />
Storm is coming, hold on tight.<br />
Waves are crashing through the night.<br />
Follow your dreams. Follow your heart.<br />
Fill your sails. Make a start.<br />
Time is flying on angel wings.<br />
Follow your heart. Follow your dreams.<br />
Follow. Follow your dreams!<br />
2 Better World<br />
Dedicated to Hugh Evans 4’01<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
At just 21 years of<br />
age, Hugh Evans is<br />
dedicating his life to<br />
helping the most<br />
underprivileged people<br />
in this world.<br />
Hugh’s passion for<br />
helping others began<br />
when he was 12 and became involved in World<br />
Vision’s 40 Hour Famine. Over the next few<br />
years, his school became the highest fundraising<br />
school for the 40 Hour Famine in Australia. At<br />
age 14, a sponsored trip to the Philippines to<br />
see World Vision’s work first hand impacted on<br />
Hugh’s life immensely.<br />
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This experience led him to found the Oaktree<br />
Foundation, Australia’s first entirely youth-run<br />
and youth-driven aid and development agency.<br />
With over 250 volunteers under the age of 25, it<br />
is a movement of young <strong>Australians</strong> who seek to<br />
empower developing communities through<br />
education in a way that is sustainable. In its first<br />
year, Oaktree raised over $100,000 to develop a<br />
community resource centre in the Valley of<br />
Embo in South Africa. This centre now provides<br />
more than 1,000 people with the opportunity to<br />
receive education for the first time in their lives.<br />
Hugh believes young people can do anything<br />
given the opportunity. The Oaktree Foundation<br />
“provides an avenue for many other young<br />
<strong>Australians</strong> to also make a difference in this<br />
world.” Hugh also established the Youth<br />
Ambassador Program with World Vision, which<br />
enables young people to go and see the work<br />
and participate themselves. Following its<br />
approval, Hugh travelled to South Africa as World<br />
Vision’s first Youth Ambassador.<br />
In 2004, Hugh became the youngest ever<br />
recipient of the <strong>Young</strong> Person of the World<br />
award. Incredibly, Hugh was also awarded <strong>Young</strong><br />
Australian of the Year, adding to his title of <strong>Young</strong><br />
Victorian of the Year. Hugh’s sincerity, humility<br />
and genuineness are what have inspired so<br />
many people, young and old, to work towards<br />
helping those less fortunate.<br />
We are young, we are free.<br />
Fight for what we believe in.<br />
It’s time for change, time to give.<br />
The future’s in our hands.<br />
Starting now, search inside,<br />
Find the strength of forgiving.<br />
Freedom comes from deep within.<br />
We can do anything.<br />
Give us the chance.<br />
Heal the wounds of the past,<br />
Open up to compassion.<br />
Give yourself to those in need,<br />
They will understand.<br />
Fight for truth, serve the poor,<br />
End injustice for all.<br />
We can make a better world.<br />
We can do anything.<br />
We can do everything.<br />
Give us the chance.<br />
Believe in what we’re fighting for.<br />
We can make a better world.<br />
Whatever it takes, whatever the cost.<br />
We’ve nothing to lose and everyone gains.<br />
Whatever we make, whatever we give.<br />
We’ve nothing to lose and everyone gains.<br />
Give us the chance.<br />
Believe in what we’re fighting for.<br />
We can make a better world.<br />
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3 World of Magic<br />
Dedicated to Joel Howlett 3’42<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Joel Howlett is one of<br />
the country’s finest<br />
magicians. Already, he<br />
has embraced<br />
Australia and the<br />
world with a unique<br />
performance, winning<br />
major competitions,<br />
performing regularly<br />
on television, and making special appearances for<br />
various charity organisations. He is 15 years old.<br />
Joel’s career began in 1996, and by the time he<br />
was seven, Joel was making numerous public<br />
appearances. His special combination of magic,<br />
charm, surprise and wit earned the entertainer<br />
great respect among fellow magicians, some of<br />
whom are more than four times his age.<br />
In 2000, Joel was the Australian representative<br />
at the Millennium Dreamers Awards in Florida,<br />
and has since returned to the USA as a special<br />
guest in the Stars of Tomorrow Show, at Las<br />
Vegas. His talents were noticed by some of the<br />
world’s finest, appearing twice on Channel<br />
Nine’s Today show. He has also performed on<br />
Hey, Hey It’s Saturday when he was only nine<br />
years old, and in 2001 his achievements were the<br />
focus of the award-winning short film Joel’s<br />
Dream. He was chosen in 2001 as the ‘Face of
Newcastle’, just north of his home in Charlestown,<br />
and appeared in numerous radio, TV and press<br />
campaigns. In the following year he won various<br />
awards at the Australian Convention of Magicians.<br />
Joel engages in extensive charity work for the<br />
elderly, hearing impaired, Rotary, Red Cross and<br />
the Lions Club. Bruce Kalver from the Society of<br />
American Magicians says of Joel, “His warm<br />
personality as well as his sense of humour was<br />
gushing throughout his act. His polite manner<br />
and professionalism show us that this kid will be<br />
going places.”<br />
As this piece was recorded, Joel had just won<br />
the Australian Music and Arts Talent Search.<br />
Look into my eyes. Closer. Closer.<br />
Look into my eyes. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.<br />
Welcome to my magic show. Mystery, surprise.<br />
Cunning tricks and wizardry. Look into my eyes!<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to JD’s ‘World of<br />
Magic’ show.<br />
The youngest magician in Australia to hit the<br />
international stage.<br />
An award-winning, charitable, man of style.<br />
A fun-loving, high-achieving Novocastrian, and all-round<br />
man of surprise.<br />
The boy wonder will trick you, taunt you, tease you<br />
and haunt you.<br />
Scare you, dare you, make you scream!<br />
Watch him. Watch him take the world by storm!<br />
First a wink, and then a smile. A sudden flash of hand.<br />
Watch me now; the card appears right before your eyes.<br />
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I hold it in my hand. A sudden fleeting glance.<br />
And with a flash, it disappears.<br />
No more wallet in your pants!<br />
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!<br />
In my eyes there’s a world of magic.<br />
In my hands, holding dreams.<br />
<strong>Young</strong> and free, in a world of magic.<br />
Magic made of dreams.<br />
I’ll trick you, taunt you, tease you and haunt you.<br />
Scare you, dare you and make you scream.<br />
Delirious with splendour, you take my youthful bait.<br />
I’ve got you in my clutches now.<br />
Time to meet your fate!<br />
In my eyes there’s a world of magic.<br />
In my hands, holding dreams.<br />
<strong>Young</strong> and free, in a world of magic.<br />
Magic made of dreams.<br />
Look into my eyes!<br />
4 Time Enough to Give<br />
Dedicated to Natasha Eggins-Allman<br />
2 April 1993 – 25 July 2004 4’27<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
While we search for<br />
heroes and leaders<br />
among our society,<br />
we should never<br />
forget the<br />
achievements and<br />
dreams of those who<br />
struggle with illness.<br />
We pay our respects<br />
now to the children from the Oncology Ward,<br />
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.<br />
This year, through the healing work of music<br />
therapy, Bonnie Nilsson was fortunate to meet a<br />
very special girl – Natasha. In October 2003, at<br />
the age of ten, Natasha was diagnosed with<br />
leukaemia, and admitted to The Children’s<br />
Hospital. It was here that, through their love of<br />
music and other interests, Bonnie and Natasha<br />
would form a close friendship, resulting in them<br />
writing and playing songs together. In Natasha’s<br />
words, “I can’t wait to get out, just to run and<br />
shout. I can’t wait to get out, to jump about. I<br />
can’t wait to be free and just be me. I want to<br />
be free and just be me.”<br />
Natasha enjoyed swimming, boogie boarding,<br />
horse riding, shopping with her friends and<br />
spending time with her mum, dad and brother<br />
Kyle. She especially loved her dog, Indy. She had<br />
only one fear – not to be forgotten. Like most of<br />
the children in the Oncology Ward, Natasha felt<br />
that although she was only young, she had time<br />
enough to give.<br />
From Natasha’s mother Sonja, “We may not<br />
remember everything you said. We may not<br />
remember everything you did. But we will<br />
always remember how you made us feel.”<br />
This piece is dedicated to Natasha and her<br />
family. Thank you, Bonnie, for your inspiration<br />
and help with this song. A donation to the<br />
Natasha Foundation will be made from the<br />
<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> Project.<br />
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These are the times I remember.<br />
These are the days we have shared.<br />
This is my time. I will surrender.<br />
It’s never a short time,<br />
When there’s time enough to give.<br />
These are the years held so tender.<br />
Hold on to the good times we have.<br />
All of my years, a time to treasure.<br />
It’s never a short time,<br />
When there’s time enough to give.<br />
Every day, I feel you closer.<br />
Every way you touch my fragile heart.<br />
Stay close beside me.<br />
Find hope in my dreams.<br />
These are the dreams I hold on to.<br />
Hope finds a way every day.<br />
There will come a time for going home.<br />
This is my time, our time.<br />
There’s time enough to live.<br />
5 Children of the Dreamtime<br />
Dedicated to Stacey Kelly-Greenup,<br />
Becky Chatfield & Mitchell Chatfield 3’54<br />
Music & lyrics by<br />
Andrew DeTeliga<br />
& Paul Jarman<br />
We are proud to<br />
present as part of<br />
<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> the<br />
achievements of three<br />
extraordinary youths,
each a proud ambassador of their Aboriginal<br />
heritage.<br />
Stacey Kelly-Greenup was named NAIDOC Youth<br />
of the Year in 2002, at the age of 17. As a young<br />
Aboriginal woman, she has overcome many<br />
barriers, and in doing so has been actively<br />
involved in the Indigenous community at a local<br />
and national level. From her hometown of<br />
Kempsey, Stacey works tirelessly for the<br />
Aboriginal youth as part of the Regional<br />
Extended Family Services, and continues an<br />
education, her passion – law.<br />
Stacey received the Kempsey Shire Council<br />
Citizen of the Year award in 2003. She<br />
established the NSW Youth Advisory Group<br />
Website, and became an active member of<br />
various Indigenous support programs including<br />
the NSW ReconciliACTION Youth Group.<br />
Becky and Mitchell Chatfield are two young<br />
Kamilaroi performers, who continue to promote<br />
their Aboriginal heritage through working<br />
together as a contemporary and traditional<br />
music and dance team. Becky is 16 and Mitchell<br />
is 12. From their home in the Blue Mountains,<br />
they are continuing to develop a strong<br />
appreciation of their culture, and with the help of<br />
their mother Elly, the family offer their services<br />
to the local Indigenous youth. Becky has<br />
recently been accepted into NAISDA.<br />
The duo have performed for many national<br />
events including the Sydney Olympic Games,<br />
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Schools Spectacular, and recently the Pan Pacific<br />
Games, for an audience of 80,000. They have<br />
represented their people at citizenship<br />
ceremonies, conferences, for NAIDOC Week,<br />
the Deadly Awards and performances for the<br />
Department of Education. In 2003 they were<br />
invited to perform at Parliament House.<br />
Indigenous Australian.<br />
We are the children of the dreamtime.<br />
Forty thousand years, we roamed this mighty land.<br />
We are the rivers, rocks and mountains.<br />
The spirit of our ancestors guides us through the night.<br />
The power of the dreaming holds our future.<br />
We have hunted in the valleys, gathered on the plains.<br />
We are swimming in the billabongs and oceans.<br />
With dignity and pride, we watch our culture grow.<br />
The power of the dreaming holds our future.<br />
Higher, high, see the boomerang fly,<br />
Across our native land.<br />
In the city and the country, we lend a helping hand.<br />
Courage to our people, young and old.<br />
It’s time to stand as one and throw away our fears.<br />
The power of the dreaming holds our future.<br />
Higher, high, see the boomerang fly,<br />
Across our native land.<br />
Stand up! Sing it to the world.<br />
Stand up! So we can be heard.<br />
Stand up! Aboriginal flag flying.<br />
We are the children of the dreamtime.<br />
6 Freedom Cry<br />
Dedicated to Judy Bennett 7’13<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Freedom Cry is dedicated to Judy Bennett, who<br />
passed away not long after the commissioning<br />
of this work. She stood for all the values of<br />
justice within this piece. The work is inspired by<br />
the Vietnamese folk song Dan ca Nam bo, and<br />
was commissioned in 2004 by Joan Wright for<br />
Ogilvie Choirs.<br />
Freedom is calling, cry freedom.<br />
For all the children who lay awake in fear,<br />
There are freedom songs.<br />
For every day spoilt by greed and treachery,<br />
Hear the freedom cry.<br />
For wasted dollars spent, every treaty bent,<br />
There are freedom songs.<br />
For shifting blame, all the selfish cruel intent,<br />
Hear the freedom cry.<br />
There is time enough to learn, and the time enough to give.<br />
Forever, live together all as one.<br />
Voices gather strong, listen to your heart.<br />
It’s never too late.<br />
Sing together freedom songs.<br />
For years of torture inflicted on the land,<br />
There are freedom songs.<br />
For the pain and grief of the punished innocent,<br />
Hear the freedom cry.<br />
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Freedom is calling, cry freedom.<br />
The past is written, lessons learnt are soon forgotten.<br />
The same mistakes, different victims.<br />
Uncertain years, uncertain fears.<br />
Life goes on and on.<br />
There is time enough to learn, and the time enough to give.<br />
Forever, live together all as one.<br />
Voices gather strong, listen to your heart.<br />
It’s never too late.<br />
Sing together freedom songs.<br />
For those who suffer their lives for liberty,<br />
There are freedom songs.<br />
For those who march hand in hand for amnesty,<br />
Hear the freedom cry.<br />
Freedom is calling, cry freedom.<br />
7 Run the Gauntlet<br />
Dedicated to Sing NSW 3’36<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga<br />
Run the gauntlet of your fears.<br />
Run the gauntlet of your tears.<br />
Run the gauntlet like there’s no tomorrow,<br />
And fly like a kite in the high wind<br />
Fly like a kite in the high wind.<br />
Just like a kite in the high wind.<br />
Embrace the power of your goals.<br />
Embrace the power in your soul.<br />
Feel the sun upon your skin,<br />
And fly like a kite in the high wind,
Fly like a kite in the high wind.<br />
Just like a kite in the high wind.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for a purpose.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for the long run.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for a purpose.<br />
We’re here; we’re here to live,<br />
To live this life!<br />
Throw down the gauntlet, stand your ground.<br />
Throw down the gauntlet; sing your sound.<br />
Throw down the gauntlet; stand in the wind,<br />
And fly like a kite in the high wind,<br />
Fly like a kite in the high wind.<br />
Just like a kite in the high wind.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for a purpose.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for the long run.<br />
We’re here; we’re here for a purpose.<br />
We’re here; we’re here to live,<br />
To live this life!<br />
8 Mia’s Song<br />
Dedicated to Mia and Jane 5’24<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Mia’s Song was commissioned in 2002 by one<br />
of Paul Jarman’s friends, Jane Hunt, for her best<br />
friend Mia’s 40th birthday. It celebrates the<br />
wonder of youth, change and growing together.<br />
She gleams with style, her charms her smile.<br />
I walk so proud beside her.<br />
A palace of pleasures, her finest tastes.<br />
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Through the days we’ve shared, the times she cared.<br />
That’s Mia, the best of friends.<br />
Vivacious charms have paved the way,<br />
For a life so rich with splendour.<br />
Her wildest dreams, she’s lived to tell.<br />
Through the days we’ve shared, the times she cared.<br />
That’s Mia, the best of friends.<br />
Mia, my Mia.<br />
I trust you with my heart.<br />
Mia, my Mia.<br />
Now I thank you for trusting in me.<br />
And so the years pass quickly by.<br />
With smiles and cheers to guide her.<br />
Indulge with me life’s charming ways.<br />
Through the days we’ve shared, the times I cared.<br />
For Mia, the best of friends.<br />
We gather now as faithful friends,<br />
To toast a life so rare.<br />
With tears of joy we honour you.<br />
Through the days we’ve shared, the times you cared.<br />
That’s Mia, the best of friends.<br />
Mia, my Mia.<br />
I trust you with my heart.<br />
Mia, my Mia.<br />
Now I thank you for trusting in me.<br />
Mia, my Mia.<br />
Now I thank you for trusting in me.<br />
Through the days we’ve shared, the times you cared,<br />
We’ll forever be best of friends.<br />
9 Set Me Free<br />
Dedicated to Salima Haidary 5’45<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Salima Haidary was<br />
born in Ghazni near<br />
Kabul, Afghanistan in<br />
December 1998. After<br />
suffering years of<br />
perpetual abuse under<br />
the Taliban regime,<br />
Salima’s family<br />
embarked on a<br />
desperate mission, to flee their homeland and<br />
escape to Australia. Salima put her experience<br />
into words in November 2003, and the remarkable<br />
story became the winner of the National Literary<br />
Award for youth the following year.<br />
For most of her life, Salima had lived in fear,<br />
without any sense of freedom or rights. She<br />
witnessed the brutal murder of both her two<br />
younger brothers by Taliban soldiers, and had not<br />
seen or heard from her father in over five years<br />
after he had been captured by soldiers and<br />
possibly escaped to Pakistan. In desperation,<br />
Salima’s grandfather gave her mother his life<br />
savings and demanded that the surviving family<br />
leave Afghanistan immediately.<br />
Under darkness they journeyed to Pakistan and<br />
paid US$4,000.00 each to organise an attempt<br />
to reach Australia. They travelled overland to<br />
Karachi in the south and then flew to Indonesia,<br />
15<br />
waiting weeks for a promised boat. With more<br />
than 300 people crammed in the tiny vessel, the<br />
four-day voyage cost many lives. Upon arrival at<br />
Christmas Island, the family were jailed for three<br />
months and Salima feared the worst.<br />
Finally, Salima, her mother, sister and brother<br />
were given a home in a small suburb of<br />
Canberra. Then, without warning her father<br />
miraculously appeared, and the family reunited<br />
for the first time in nearly a decade. When Paul<br />
Jarman wrote the lyrics to Set Me Free Salima<br />
was still waiting to hear from the government<br />
regarding their right to stay in Australia. She said<br />
that she would kill herself if deported back to<br />
Afghanistan. Ironically, a couple of days after the<br />
piece was written, she was given her freedom.<br />
This piece is dedicated to Salima and her family.<br />
Nowhere to run and hide, there’s danger in the night.<br />
Nothing safe, no one escapes, there’s fear across the land.<br />
No warmth around the fire, we suffer through the cold.<br />
Mothers scream and babies cry, they’re sick and so afraid.<br />
No hope to make a life, they take our dreams away.<br />
This tortured land we once adored has crumbled to its knees.<br />
We see our brothers die; our fathers disappear.<br />
We stand in line to meet our fate, no hope of liberty.<br />
Set me free, oh set me free. Please, set me free.<br />
Now we’re on the run cross the great divide.<br />
Hide your faces, don’t be seen, don’t trust in anyone.<br />
Risking certain death, plunge into the sea.<br />
Day and night of misery, surrounded by disease.
Bodies overboard, hunger and despair.<br />
A desperate bid for freedom if we ever make it there.<br />
A new land in our sight, more trouble lies ahead.<br />
Locked into a prison cell, committed not a crime.<br />
Set me free, oh set me free. Please, set me free.<br />
Freedom! Freedom, hear my plea.<br />
Freedom! Freedom, rescue me.<br />
Let me stay. Can’t you see that I’m afraid?<br />
Set me free. Set me free!<br />
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Dedicated to Christopher Harris 4’04<br />
Music & lyrics by Paul Jarman<br />
Christopher Harris is<br />
an inspiration to us all.<br />
The keen adventurer<br />
aims to be the<br />
youngest mountaineer<br />
in history to climb the<br />
seven summits. He is<br />
14 years old.<br />
Christopher’s challenge began when he climbed<br />
Mount Kosciusko at the age of eight, in winter<br />
on alpine grade two route up the cornice. Over<br />
the next few years, he participated in several<br />
mountaineering courses, went white water<br />
rafting and rock climbing in the Blue Mountains<br />
NSW, and climbed the Three Sisters at age nine.<br />
In 2002, at the age of 12, Christopher became<br />
the youngest person to climb New Zealand’s<br />
highest peak, Mt Cook, gaining instant<br />
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international recognition. He was awarded <strong>Young</strong><br />
Adventurer of the Year by Australian Geographic<br />
for this achievement.<br />
In 2003 he climbed Africa’s highest peak,<br />
Mt Kilimanjaro, earning him legendary status<br />
among the local Tanzanian guides. Christopher<br />
continued to train hard and in 2004 became the<br />
youngest person to complete the Oxfam 100km<br />
Trailwalker. A week after completing the race in<br />
under 24 hours he flew out to Russia and was<br />
successful in summiting Europe’s highest<br />
mountain, Mt Elbrus, under extremely cold<br />
conditions. The extraordinary team of father<br />
(Richard Harris) and son attempted Mt McKinley<br />
in June 2005, but were turned back by bad<br />
weather. Later in 2005 they will attempt<br />
Mt Aconcagua.<br />
In 2003 Christopher’s dreams and achievements<br />
were honoured live across the globe as The Will<br />
to Climb featured in the finale of the Rugby<br />
World Cup Opening Ceremony, performed by<br />
the Sydney Symphony and World Choir.<br />
Christopher will attempt the summit of<br />
Mt Everest in 2006 and become the youngest<br />
person in the world to do so. The Will to Climb<br />
was commissioned in 2003 by Lyn Williams for<br />
Gondwana Voices.<br />
I have this adventure in me, the will to climb.<br />
I walk into the pages of history.<br />
My journey has just begun.<br />
Reach up, look out, there’s a world around me.<br />
Stand up, speak out, far horizons reach me.<br />
By endurance I’ll shine.<br />
My heroes will guide me.<br />
I will conquer my fears.<br />
The dawn is at hand.<br />
I have the will to climb.<br />
All the mountains are calling.<br />
I’ll rise to my dreams, with courage at hand.<br />
Reach up, look out, there’s a world around me.<br />
Stand up, speak out, far horizons reach me.<br />
I have the will to climb.<br />
And my journey has begun.<br />
! <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> 3’18<br />
Music & lyrics by Andrew DeTeliga<br />
Our future lies before us.<br />
Stretched out like a long summer day.<br />
The sun shines bright, there’s promise in the night.<br />
And the world is just a walk away.<br />
We have the keys to the city.<br />
We have the power in our hand.<br />
We know there’s need, there’s hunger and greed.<br />
We are the future of this land.<br />
We are <strong>Australians</strong>, youth of the nation.<br />
We are the future of this land.<br />
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Paul Jarman<br />
Paul Jarman (b. 1971)<br />
is a versatile Australian<br />
composer and<br />
performing artist.<br />
Through his music he<br />
is searching for and<br />
celebrating a deeper<br />
understanding of<br />
Australian culture and<br />
history, and has worked extensively throughout<br />
Australia, Europe, Asia, North America and the<br />
Pacific with theatre productions, dance<br />
ensembles, Aboriginal-Anglo Celtic performance<br />
groups, choirs, orchestras and Sirocco. He plays<br />
more than 20 instruments including Irish<br />
whistles and pipes, tarogato, piano and strings.<br />
Paul has composed music for some of<br />
Australia’s most significant events including the<br />
Centenary of Federation, the Bicentenary of the<br />
Battle of Vinegar Hill, and Year of the Outback,<br />
the Olympic Arts Festival, the Rugby World Cup<br />
and the Australia Day Spectacular. He toured<br />
Europe as resident composer with the Sydney<br />
Children’s Choir for World Song Beat Festival and<br />
the International Youth Summit at the Geneva<br />
Convention, and also with Sing Armidale for the<br />
D-Day 60th Anniversary in Normandy. He has<br />
composed and performed music for various<br />
Sydney Festival events including Sam Shepard’s<br />
Angel City, Aerial Art and ID Dance, and was a
featured soloist for the Imax film Equus. He<br />
composed and performed the music for William<br />
Yang’s Objects for Meditation, performing in<br />
Sydney, Brussels, Manchester, Paris, Rome,<br />
Oslo and Rotterdam. In 2003 he was the<br />
Musical Director for the Deadly Awards,<br />
collaborating with Jimmy Little and Troy Casser-<br />
Daley.<br />
In 2005 Paul performed for the international<br />
premiere of his critically acclaimed cantata I Will<br />
Ride at the Jordan Hall in Boston, with the PALS<br />
Children’s Chorus and Boston City Singers, and<br />
Island Heroes, dedicated to the Torres Strait<br />
Island peoples, premiered at the Sydney Opera<br />
House. Paul was composer in residence for Let’s<br />
Sing in Tasmania 2004, also composing music<br />
for the United Nations Year of the Mountain,<br />
Hobart. Paul writes school anthems,<br />
commemorative town songs, and has<br />
collaborated with students to compose song<br />
cycles including Beyond the White Sails<br />
(Caulfield Grammar) and Yennibu, with Aboriginal<br />
leaders and the combined schools of the<br />
Kuringai in Sydney. With this approach to an<br />
appreciation of our identity through music, Paul’s<br />
words and song touch many hearts.<br />
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Andrew DeTeliga<br />
Andrew DeTeliga<br />
(b. 1951) is the main<br />
composer for Sirocco<br />
and was a founding<br />
member in 1980.<br />
His background is in<br />
rhythm and blues<br />
guitar and he played in<br />
numerous groups<br />
throughout the 1970s including Jimmy and the<br />
Boys and Tansy’s Fancy. He now performs on<br />
more than 20 stringed instruments from across<br />
Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East,<br />
including classical violin, blues guitar, bouzouki<br />
and Chinese harp and has toured Australia<br />
and the globe as a cultural ambassador for<br />
three decades.<br />
From a classical repertoire Andrew turned to the<br />
Irish fiddle and to the music of the different<br />
ethnic groups in Australia. His inspired<br />
compositions have been used around the world<br />
by dance groups, ensembles and choirs, in film<br />
and on the stage. He has collaborated with<br />
Aboriginal dancers including Yothu Yindi,<br />
Pakistani Kwali singers, Vietnamese vocalists<br />
and bagpipe bands among many others. His<br />
music has been recorded on 12 Sirocco albums<br />
and played in festivals, events, schools and<br />
unique natural settings across Australia. He has<br />
composed music for Australia Day, the<br />
Centenary of Federation, United Nations Year of<br />
the Mountain, The Wetlands Suite and the D-Day<br />
60th Anniversary in Normandy, where he<br />
performed with Sing Armidale choir in 2004.<br />
Jenny Gregory<br />
Jenny Gregory, Sing<br />
NSW Coordinator and<br />
Conductor, NSW<br />
Department of<br />
Education and Training,<br />
is widely experienced<br />
in developing and<br />
conducting choirs. She<br />
has conducted for the<br />
Primary Choral Concert<br />
Series and the ArtsNorth Festival of Music and<br />
at the Sydney Opera House, and was Coconductor<br />
for the Pacific Schools Games. Since<br />
2000, Jenny has conducted the Sydney Public<br />
Schools Junior Singers, an ensemble of talented<br />
singers auditioned from Sydney metropolitan<br />
public schools. The group also performs with the<br />
State Sing NSW choir. In 1999, Jenny toured the<br />
USA with the Sydney Public Schools Singers as<br />
part of the Olympic Arts Festival, “Reaching the<br />
World”. In 2001, to celebrate the Centenary of<br />
Federation, Jenny produced major Sing NSW<br />
concerts at Corowa and Tenterfield.<br />
In collaboration with Sirocco, Jenny has<br />
produced and conducted the Sing NSW mass<br />
choir in regional areas of the state, including the<br />
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Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo; Jenolan Caves;<br />
University of New England, Armidale and the<br />
Central Coast Conservatorium.<br />
As a regional arts consultant, Jenny has been<br />
active in facilitating a new commissioned work,<br />
Yenibu, composed by Paul Jarman, for the<br />
ArtsNorth Festival of Music 2006, which will<br />
feature a massed choir of public school students<br />
from the Northern Sydney Region performing at<br />
the Sydney Opera House.<br />
The premiere of <strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> – Voices of<br />
Achievement will be conducted by Jenny at a<br />
performance by Sing NSW at the Sydney Town<br />
Hall in September 2005.<br />
Sirocco<br />
There is no group in Australian history with the<br />
qualifications of Sirocco. The art form of music<br />
and their attitude of inclusiveness have allowed<br />
them to perform with all kinds of musicians,<br />
from Russian rock bands in Vladivostok to a Dan<br />
Boa singer in Hanoi to folk dancers in a tiny<br />
village in Nepal. Formed in 1980, they are<br />
irrepressible, always coming up with innovative<br />
projects. Their signature is their event in the<br />
superb Macquarie Marshes in New South Wales.<br />
The concert was broadcast around the world and<br />
remains a unique celebration credited with<br />
saving the wetlands. Their dozen albums<br />
chronicle Australia’s coming of age in music. In<br />
Sirocco’s music you experience the uniqueness
that is Australia – its environment, its vibrant<br />
cultures, its turbulent history, and of course, its<br />
youth. www.siroccoz.com<br />
Sing NSW<br />
Sing NSW is an exciting music program for all<br />
NSW government schools. It is a developmental<br />
singing and dance program with the added<br />
benefit of outstanding performance<br />
opportunities for students. Sing NSW is open to<br />
all government school students in Years 5 to 12.<br />
Formerly Sing/Dance 2001, the program extends<br />
on the five years of training already experienced<br />
by ensemble members. All district choirs have<br />
performed in the Opening Ceremony of the<br />
Pacific School Games, Sydney 2000 Olympics<br />
and events associated with the Centenary of<br />
Federation. In 2004 all ensembles performed<br />
with renowned world music group Sirocco at the<br />
Sydney Town Hall and the University of New<br />
England, Armidale. Other highlights were<br />
performances at Jenolan Caves, Western<br />
Plains Zoo, the State Dance Festival and the<br />
Schools Spectacular.<br />
Regional choirs are located throughout the state<br />
of NSW. Students benefit from a diverse choral<br />
and dance education program and expert tuition<br />
provided by conductors and choreographers of<br />
the highest quality, and are enthused through<br />
interaction with other singers and dancers.<br />
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Sing NSW Staff<br />
Department of Education and Training<br />
Jennifer Bell Western Sydney<br />
Robyn Bradley Armidale<br />
Margaret Burns Mudgee<br />
Heather Causley Sutherland<br />
Meg Davey Lake Macquarie<br />
Kathryn Derrin Coffs Harbour<br />
Cheryl Fitzgerald Sutherland<br />
Helen Ford Central Coast<br />
Jenny Gregory The Arts Unit<br />
Julie Hodge Lake Macquarie<br />
Sue Lane Central Coast<br />
Fay McCabe Orange<br />
Deborah Mulcair Sutherland<br />
John Smiley PortJackson/Bankstown<br />
Kay Taylor Port Jackson/Bankstown<br />
Renate Turrini Coffs Harbour<br />
Cathy Welsford Armidale<br />
Denise Wood Mudgee<br />
Philippa Wood Hornsby<br />
Sing NSW<br />
‘Freedom Cry’ Choir<br />
Erin Bailey<br />
Lyndal Butler<br />
Victoria Campbell<br />
Anthea Conyngham<br />
Laura Cowie<br />
Donna Curtis<br />
Niamh Day<br />
Adelle Dunshea<br />
Arlene Fletcher<br />
Duncan Fredericks<br />
Mikayla Glover<br />
Kieren Gulpers<br />
Courtney Harris<br />
Chloe Harrison<br />
Adriana Lane<br />
Emma Lyons<br />
Rhia Parker<br />
Annabelle Prunster<br />
Kathryn Sinclair<br />
Alyson Smith<br />
Ayla Smith<br />
Madelyn Smith<br />
Jessica Stocker<br />
Bronwyn Swindells<br />
Grace Teece<br />
Camilla Tafra<br />
Lauren Ware<br />
Sarah Watt<br />
Marlou Werner<br />
Kate Williamson<br />
Gemma Wood<br />
Sing NSW ‘<strong>Young</strong><br />
<strong>Australians</strong>’ Choir<br />
Erin Bailey<br />
Nat Bain<br />
James Beck<br />
Corinne Beckman<br />
Toby Beckman<br />
Emily Bee<br />
Tim Bennett<br />
Genevieve Borg<br />
Erin Bowcock<br />
Lauren Brain<br />
Jessica Broom<br />
Rachel Browne<br />
Elleisha Burke<br />
Alice Burrell<br />
Lyndall Butler<br />
Grace Cameron-Lee<br />
Victoria Campbell<br />
Lauren Christenson<br />
Ella Collins-White<br />
Anthea Conyngham<br />
Charlie Cooper<br />
Elisabeth Cooper<br />
Laura Cowie<br />
Jessica Cox<br />
Alison Crowe<br />
Donna Curtis<br />
Niamh Day<br />
Sarah DeJong<br />
Nicky Dellagiacoma<br />
Sophie Dellagiacoma<br />
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Amy Rose Dooney<br />
Adelle Dunshea<br />
Helen Eade<br />
Amelia Eagan<br />
Casey Fahey<br />
James Flanagan<br />
Rebecca Flanagan<br />
Arlene Fletcher<br />
Duncan Fredericks<br />
Elizabeth Fredericks<br />
Bryce Furner<br />
Eliza Garton<br />
Nigel Garton<br />
Lauren Gilders<br />
Anna Glen<br />
Mikayla Glover<br />
Emma Goddard<br />
Katie Goddard<br />
Kieren Gulpers<br />
Courtney Harris<br />
Chloe Harrison<br />
Dawn Ho<br />
Tom Hughes<br />
Ruby Jackson<br />
Meagan Johnson<br />
Elise Karrour<br />
Do Veen Kim<br />
Christina Kinley<br />
Raj Kumar<br />
Adriana Lane<br />
Hamish Lane<br />
Todd Lawson<br />
Teagan Lee
Amy Lindsay<br />
Emma Lyons<br />
Sean Moloney<br />
Cassarn Malone<br />
Nicole McGrath<br />
Eloise McIntyre<br />
Lauren Meredith<br />
Brianna Miller<br />
Rebecca Mooney<br />
Elise Newman<br />
Dominic Ng<br />
Elizabeth Nolan<br />
Michael Nolan<br />
Kathleen O’Donnell<br />
Brendan Oates<br />
Kaari Pallandi<br />
Liisa Pallandi<br />
Rhia Parker<br />
Brendan Passey<br />
Tara Pearson<br />
Chloe Phillips<br />
Elizabeth Propsting<br />
Annabelle Prunster<br />
Belinda Prunster<br />
Melanie Prunster<br />
Julia Readett<br />
Tjanara Ridgeway<br />
Maya Schwenke<br />
Karen Short<br />
Kathryn Sinclair<br />
Alyson Smith<br />
Ayla Smith<br />
Madelyn Smith<br />
Talei Smith<br />
Eamon Sparkes<br />
Tessa Sparkes<br />
Ella Stathis<br />
Jessica Stocker<br />
Huw Strachan<br />
Emily Suann<br />
Bronwyn Swindells<br />
James Swindells<br />
Matthew Swindells<br />
Camilla Tafra<br />
Ryan Tan<br />
Grace Teece<br />
Jennifer Thurgate<br />
Mitchell Trench<br />
Fiona Van De Weyer<br />
Liesl Van De Weyer<br />
Tara Voulgaris<br />
Lauren Ware<br />
Phillip Watt<br />
Sarah Watt<br />
Elyshia Weatherby<br />
Lachlan Weekes<br />
Marlou Werner<br />
Amanda Willey<br />
Carrissa Williams<br />
Kate Williamson<br />
Tara Wilson<br />
Gemma Wood<br />
Sara Wynn<br />
Executive Producers Robert Patterson, Lyle Chan<br />
Recording Producer Virginia Read<br />
Recording Engineer, Editor and Mastering<br />
Virginia Read<br />
Assistant Engineer Daniel Taylor<br />
Editorial and Production Manager Natalie Shea<br />
Cover and <strong>Booklet</strong> Design Imagecorp Pty Ltd<br />
Artistic/Musical Director and program notes<br />
Paul Jarman<br />
Sing NSW Project Coordinator Jenny Gregory<br />
ABC Classics Project Coordinator Alison Johnston<br />
Recorded 4-7 July 2005 in the Eugene Goossens Hall<br />
at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ultimo<br />
Centre, Sydney.<br />
Paul Jarman thanks Jenny Gregory and the Sing NSW<br />
Staff, Department of Education and Training for support<br />
of this project, Sirocco, Musica Viva, Lyn Williams,<br />
Sydney Children’s Choir, Bonnie Nilsson, Children’s<br />
Hospital at Westmead (Donations can be made to<br />
Natasha’s Foundation c/ PO Box 357, Cherrybrook NSW<br />
2126), Colin Offord, William Yang, Jonathan Zwartz,<br />
Adam Hill, Chris Gordon and Andrew Walsh. Special<br />
thanks to all the incredible young achievers who<br />
inspired us and the singers who made magic happen.<br />
‘<strong>Young</strong> <strong>Australians</strong> – Voices of Achievement’ is<br />
dedicated to youth and their dreams for the future.<br />
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