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ARTS<br />
FESTIVALS<br />
MUSIC, ART, DANCE, DRAMA, CA BARET A N D STREET THEATRE - A MAJOR<br />
A RTS FESTIVAL WILL OFFER ALL THIS A N D MORE IN A PROGRAMME<br />
T H AT IS DESIGNED TO ENTERTAIN, STIMULATE<br />
A N D SURPRISE.<br />
SPINDRIFT<br />
There are many Since its inception in 1960 the biennial Adelaide<br />
types of festivals Festival has developed an enviable reputation as one<br />
held in <strong>Australia</strong> of the world's leading multi-arts festivals. It is<br />
both annually and on a biennial <strong>Australia</strong>'s best-known and most prestigious arts<br />
basis. The major international festival and prides itself on presenting contemporary<br />
multi-arts festivals celebrate the work which pushes the boundaries of art, an eclectic<br />
arts generally. Other festivals are programme which boasts something for everyone.<br />
based around a particular genre, Each festival has a particular theme. The 2000 festival<br />
such as music, comedy, dance or focused on the act of creativity itself, and the new<br />
writing. Still others are aimed at ways in which artists are choosing to collaborate and<br />
specific audiences, fringe festivals, create into the next century.<br />
for example, or youth festivals. The Adelaide Festival includes a curated visual<br />
There are five existing major arts and writers festival. The director is appointed<br />
international arts festivals in for a two year term which ensures a constantly<br />
<strong>Australia</strong> - Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, changing focus on the new and the challenging.<br />
Melbourne and Brisbane. The <strong>stamp</strong>s The <strong>stamp</strong> features Rosas, a Belgian dance company<br />
feature images from each of them, established by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in 1983,<br />
conveying the complexity, richness which appeared in the 2000 festival.<br />
and vibrancy of the performing and Celebrating its 25th year in 2001 the Sydney<br />
visual arts in <strong>Australia</strong>.<br />
Festival is one of <strong>Australia</strong>'s major arts festivals and<br />
The Perth International Arts Festival embraces all art forms. It is ultimately a celebration<br />
is <strong>Australia</strong>'s oldest international of summer in a great city, culminating each year on<br />
multi-arts festival, celebrating its <strong>Australia</strong> Day, 26 January. The Sydney Festival is<br />
50th anniversary in 2002. It is an sometimes characterised as <strong>Australia</strong>'s major<br />
annual event held in February or outdoor arts festival. The sculpture featured on the<br />
March. The 2000 Perth Festival <strong>stamp</strong> is Guardian Angel by Inge King, held in the<br />
was the beginning of a four-year collection of Deakin University (Burwood Campus),<br />
Millennium Celebration programme. Victoria. The dancer is from the Tharp! Dance<br />
The <strong>stamp</strong>s feature an image from The Company performing in a piece titled Sweet Field,<br />
Merry-Go-Round in the Sea performed a 1998 Sydney Arts Festival offering.<br />
by Black Swan Theatre Company, and Held from mid-October the annual Melbourne<br />
an image from a 1998 Perth Festival Festival runs for seventeen days and has acquired a<br />
performance of Cloudstreet by Company B reputation for presenting outstanding international<br />
Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre Company. and <strong>Australia</strong>n attractions encompassing all art<br />
Adapted from Tim Winton’s novel, the forms. It began in 1986 and utilises a variety of non-<br />
play was subsequently performed to huge traditional venues to create greater vibrancy in the<br />
critical acclaim in other <strong>Australia</strong>n cities city centre and surrounding environs. The<br />
and in London's West End.<br />
foreground image in the <strong>stamp</strong> is a performer<br />
14 Arts festivals<br />
24 February 2000<br />
18 October 2000<br />
FESTIVAL O F T H E W I N D S,BONDI BEAC H<br />
50 Paralympic torch<br />
46 Space<br />
24 February 2000<br />
PARALYMPIC<br />
TORCH<br />
THE M A A SYDNEY 2000 PARALYMPIC TO RC H RELAY W AS A N INSPIRING<br />
COMMUNITY EVENT. DURING A N 11,500 KILOMETRE JOURNEY A RO U N D<br />
AUSTRALIA THE TO RC H PASSED THRO U G H THE HANDS OF 920 TO RCHBEARERS,<br />
A N D VISITED M O R E THAN 200 TOWNS,CITIES A N D SUBURBS.<br />
The Paralympic Torch Relay began its<br />
journey on 5 October 2000 at Parliament<br />
House, Canberra. The Ngunnawal<br />
community, original inhabitants of the Canberra<br />
area, lit the flame in a traditional ceremony.<br />
Travelling by air from Canberra to Melbourne,<br />
Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Brisbane the<br />
torch then commenced an eight-day road journey<br />
through regional centres in New South Wales. After<br />
arriving in Sydney the torch was carried to the<br />
Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony<br />
where it was used to light the Paralympic cauldron,<br />
marking the official opening of the Sydney 2000<br />
Paralympic Games.<br />
For those involved in the Paralympic Torch Relay<br />
the lighting of the cauldron marked the end of what<br />
was a significant community event. With the<br />
support of sponsors, service clubs, seniors, ethnic<br />
groups and local councils the Sydney Paralympic<br />
Organising Committee was able to raise awareness<br />
of the Games, promote the skill and commitment<br />
of Paralympic athletes and inspire future sports stars.<br />
In addition, a pen-pal scheme called LEAP (Link<br />
Elite Athletes Programme) encouraged school students<br />
to communicate with Paralympic athletes, follow<br />
their progress and support them during the Games.<br />
As a reward for their efforts these groups<br />
received torchbearer positions on the relay. A<br />
total of 124 school students and more than 160<br />
representatives of other community organisations<br />
proudly carried the torch on its epic journey. In<br />
addition 300 members of the public won positions<br />
on the relay in the Motor Accidents Authority of<br />
NSW (MAA) Torchbearer Competition. Other<br />
torchbearers included Paralympic and Olympic<br />
athletes and Paralympic Games volunteers.<br />
The first torchbearer was David Hall, Atlanta<br />
silver and bronze medallist and three-time winner<br />
from Sekarwari-Balinese Dance<br />
Society who appeared in the 1998<br />
Festival. The background image shows a<br />
member of Spindrift, an act in the Streets<br />
Southgate Spectacular at the 1996 Festival.<br />
The biennial Brisbane Festival takes place in<br />
October. First held in 1996, the Brisbane Festival<br />
features some of the world's finest performing arts<br />
groups from <strong>Australia</strong> and overseas in the fields of<br />
dance, drama, and contemporary and fine music.<br />
The 2000 Festival included the Out of the Box<br />
Festival for young children. The image in the <strong>stamp</strong><br />
is from a performance at the 1998 Brisbane Festival<br />
titled African Moves by the Vusa Dance Company<br />
of South Africa.<br />
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This year’s inclusion of the limited edition,<br />
composite Gold Medallists sheet makes it a<br />
must have for collectors. The wide range of<br />
subjects makes it an ideal gift for anyone with<br />
an interest in <strong>Australia</strong>n culture and history.<br />
Mail Order Codes<br />
If ordered before 27 December 2000<br />
1101171 Collection of 2000 <strong>Australia</strong>n Stamps<br />
Deluxe edition......................................$82.50#<br />
1101214 Collection of 2000 <strong>Australia</strong>n Stamps<br />
Executive edition................................$112.50#<br />
Note, because of the large number of <strong>stamp</strong>s in the 2000<br />
issue programme, there are no <strong>Australia</strong>n Antarctic Territory<br />
<strong>stamp</strong>s in this year’s collection. These <strong>stamp</strong>s are included<br />
in the Territories collection.<br />
DESIGN:W AYNE RANKIN<br />
ROSAS DANCE COMPANY<br />
of the US Wheelchair Tennis Open. David won the The <strong>stamp</strong>s were printed in ‘personalised <strong>stamp</strong>’<br />
US Open, back-to-back in 1997 and 1998 and was the format. The tabs carry the Sydney 2000 Paralympic<br />
first <strong>Australia</strong>n player to win a Paralympic Games Games slogan, Feel inspired. Members of the<br />
medal in tennis.<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n Paralympic team were presented with<br />
The design of the torch was inspired by the their own sheets of personalised <strong>stamp</strong>s as a<br />
Paralympic Games logo which embodies the vitality souvenir of their involvement in this great event.<br />
of Sydney, the spirit of <strong>Australia</strong> and the ability and<br />
achievement of Paralympic athletes.<br />
Made from anodised aluminium each<br />
torch held a steel burner to keep it<br />
cool when carried. A fuel mix of<br />
propane and butane was used to<br />
ensure a bright flame.<br />
Sydney is the fourth country to<br />
host a Paralympic Torch Relay. The<br />
first was held in Seoul in 1988.<br />
DESIGN:FHA IMAG E DESIGN<br />
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SPACE<br />
THE SPACEAGE HAS OPENED UP N E W POSSIBILITIES<br />
FOR THE FUTURE.COMBINING SCIENCE FICTION<br />
AND SPACEFACT,THE SPACE STAMPS SPECULATE<br />
ABOUT HUMAN LIFE O N M A R S.<br />
DESIGN:OTTO SCHMIDINGER<br />
Mars has had a place in popular culture highly varied, much of it very old and cratered.<br />
for well over a century now, partly Olympus Mons is the largest mountain in the solar<br />
because it was thought to be the most system rising 24 kilometres above the surrounding<br />
likely planet to support life. Popular culture in the plain and with a base more than 500 kilometres in<br />
form of literature, and later, radio and film, reflected diameter. The Mariner Valleys is a system of canyons<br />
such beliefs. War of the Worlds by H G Wells was first 4000 kilometres long named after Mariner 4, the<br />
published in 1897 and had a considerable influence first American spacecraft to take close up pictures<br />
on the public's view of alien life. It tells of the invasion of Mars when it flew by in 1965. Mars 2 was the first<br />
of Earth by Martians who flee their dying planet and spacecraft to actually land on Mars.<br />
descend upon London. Inevitably the Martians, with Various experiments have been performed to<br />
their advanced weapons, cause people to panic and determine the existence of life on Mars. There is<br />
flee. The Martians, however, begin to succumb to a evidence of ancient Martian micro-organisms, but<br />
fatal infection as they are not immunised against this by no means establishes the fact of extraterrestrial<br />
Earth's germs. A radio adaptation of this novel by life. NASA currently plans to bring rock and soil<br />
Orson Welles in 1938 caused extraordinary panic in samples back to Earth in 2008. Mission planners<br />
the United States of America. Because of the play’s acknowledge that returning a Martian sample to<br />
style of news <strong>bulletin</strong>s and on-the-spot reporting, Earth will require environmental impact assessments<br />
people thought there really was an invasion.<br />
and international consultations because of the<br />
Ray Bradbury is another novelist who has potential risk.<br />
popularised Mars. The Martian Chronicles,<br />
While Mars is 500 times further away from Earth<br />
published in 1951, turned the popular notion of than the moon, scientists believe it will be possible to<br />
Martian invaders on its head by telling the tragic send humans there once some major technological<br />
Why send humans to Mars? Scientists say there Could people ever live comfortably on Mars?<br />
story of the human conquest of Mars. The Martians, hurdles are overcome. The length of the journey<br />
are experiments and explorations that even the As Mars is further away from the Sun than the Earth<br />
a wise and ancient civilization, are killed by<br />
raises the problems of prolonged weightlessness and<br />
most advanced robots could not accomplish. Such is, its weather is much colder. The atmospheric<br />
terrestrial bacteria brought by humans.<br />
exposure to solar and cosmic radiation far stronger<br />
a mission would provide a greater understanding of pressure is less than one per cent of Earth's, too thin<br />
Films about Mars have been made since the than anything past astronauts have experienced.<br />
Mars and give a better understanding of Earth's to allow liquid water on the surface, and there is no<br />
beginning of cinema. Releases in the year 2000 The prolonged weightlessness during a three to<br />
evolution. At a "Why Mars?" workshop held in oxygen. The Mariner and Viking spacecraft have<br />
included Red Planet Mars and Mission to Mars. four-year-long mission could carry additional risks,<br />
Houston, Texas, in August 1992, six motivating revealed flood channels and valley networks on<br />
The latter concerns a NASA mission that goes awry associated with muscle wastage, heart problems,<br />
factors for human exploration of Mars were<br />
Mars. These features appear to be relics from a time,<br />
leaving all but one member of the crew dead. bone loss or sleeplessness. The thin atmosphere and<br />
canvassed. These included the idea that Mars is the billions of years ago, when liquid water flowed across<br />
Meanwhile, out in space, Mars is the fourth chaotic climate of Mars means humans will face<br />
next logical step in the expansion of the human the surface. In that remote epoch, Mars almost<br />
planet from the Sun and the seventh largest. It has fierce dust storms, large temperature variations, no<br />
race; that an international Mars exploration<br />
certainly possessed a much denser atmosphere. Could<br />
been known to humans since ancient times. Its oxygen and great difficulties in accessing water while<br />
programme would create a sense of global unity; it change back again and become a warmer, wetter,<br />
blood-red appearance, caused by large quantities of on the surface. In addition, provision must be made<br />
and that the development of new and improved habitable planet? The main requirement would be to<br />
iron oxide (rust) in the soil, inspired the Romans to for returning the crew to Earth, such as providing a<br />
technologies for the Mars mission would enhance restore the dense Martian atmosphere. Because of its<br />
associate it with their god of war, Mars. Its surface is source of fuel for the return trip.<br />
the lives of people and encourage high-tech industry. low gravity, however, this possibility is doubtful.<br />
3 October 2000<br />
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Annual Collection spreads<br />
Delux edition, Collection of 2000 <strong>Australia</strong>n Stamps (In slip case)<br />
The <strong>Australia</strong>n Territories Collection 2000 will<br />
be released on 1 November. The four-page<br />
collection features background information for<br />
all <strong>stamp</strong>s released for the <strong>Australia</strong>n Antarctic<br />
Territory, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling)<br />
Islands during 2000 along with <strong>stamp</strong>s, sheetlets<br />
and miniature sheets. Complemented by album<br />
sheets to ensure the <strong>stamp</strong>s are easy to collect,<br />
the collection represents excellent value at only<br />
$13.50.<br />
The collector’s choice range has binders<br />
which will hold your Territories collection.<br />
Mail Order Codes<br />
1101194 Territories Collection 2000 ..................$13.50<br />
AUSTRALIAN<br />
ANTARCTIC<br />
TERRITORY<br />
Wilayah Antartik<br />
Milik <strong>Australia</strong><br />
Acknowledgements<br />
Generated by <strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
Philatelic Group<br />
Written by Lisa Lim and Rosemary Clark<br />
Designed by Stacey Zass<br />
©<strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
Front cover:<br />
crab - Deidre Hunt<br />
Inside spread:<br />
king and bird, bird and star - Bill Wood;<br />
dragon - Luis Chiang;<br />
Siti Sanniah Kawi - Diane Masters;<br />
Nakia Haji Dolman - Nameli Nallen-Yaderie;<br />
Rafiuddin Radal - Tina Auld-Bower;<br />
crab - Deidre Hunt<br />
Back cover:<br />
Emperor Penguins - Superstock Catalogue 7/<br />
International Photographic Library<br />
ANTARCTIC PENGUINS<br />
Burung Penguin Antartik<br />
Only two species of penguin breed in the <strong>Australia</strong>n Antarctic Territory<br />
(AAT): the Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Adélie Penguin<br />
(Pygoscelis adeliae).<br />
At approximately one metre in height, the adult Emperor Penguin is the<br />
world's tallest penguin. Also the heaviest of penguins, it weighs between<br />
23 and 40 kilograms. Extremely dense plumage, a woolly down underfelt<br />
and a thick layer of fat all assist this remarkable creature to withstand the most<br />
extreme breeding conditions of any bird species.<br />
The smaller black and white Adélie Penguin stands 71 centimetres tall and<br />
weighs up to six kilograms. Named after the wife of the French explorer,<br />
Admiral Dumont d'Urville, these flightless birds breed on the shores of<br />
Antarctica in early spring.<br />
Photographs: Emperor – main & top image: Graham Robertson/AUSCAPE;<br />
bottom image: Colin Blobel/ANT Photo Library<br />
Adélie – main & lower image: Janet Boschen;<br />
top image: Steve Turner/Oxford Scientific Films/AUSCAPE<br />
Design: Janet Boschen, <strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Post</strong> Design Studio<br />
Issue date: 24 July 2000<br />
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES<br />
Wilayah-Wilayah <strong>Australia</strong><br />
In addition to the <strong>Australia</strong>n <strong>stamp</strong> issue programme, <strong>Australia</strong> <strong>Post</strong> produces<br />
<strong>stamp</strong>s for three of <strong>Australia</strong>'s external Territories – Christmas Island, Cocos<br />
(Keeling) Islands and the <strong>Australia</strong>n Antarctic Territory (AAT).<br />
Known as <strong>Australia</strong>'s Indian Ocean Territories, tropical Christmas and Cocos<br />
(Keeling) Islands are 900 kilometres apart and closer to Indonesia than the<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n mainland. Christmas Island lies some 2,600 kilometres north-west<br />
of Perth, just 360 kilometres south of Jakarta. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands<br />
are almost 2,800 kilometres north-west of Western <strong>Australia</strong>'s capital city;<br />
and around 1,000 kilometres south-west of Sumatra and Java.<br />
These two Territories' proximity to south-east Asian countries is reflected<br />
in their populations. Sixty-five per cent of Christmas Islanders are Chinese,<br />
fifteen per cent are Malaysian and only one fifth of the 1,400 inhabitants are<br />
Europeans. Out of approximately 570 people living on the Cocos (Keeling)<br />
Islands, 86 per cent are Cocos Malays and descended from Javanese labourers.<br />
The remainder of the population is generally of European extraction.<br />
The <strong>Australia</strong>n Government claims more than 5.8 million square kilometres<br />
of Antarctica as its own territory. All people in the AAT are there on a<br />
temporary basis. <strong>Australia</strong>n mainlanders are employed by <strong>Australia</strong>n<br />
National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) to carry out scientific<br />
research. Each year around 300 expeditioners are contracted to work for<br />
twelve months in the coldest, windiest, highest and driest place on earth.<br />
Casey, the continental ANARE base closest to <strong>Australia</strong>, lies 3,430 kilometres<br />
south-west of Hobart.<br />
2000<br />
K O L E K S I S E T E M W I L A Y A H - W I L A Y A H A U S T R A L I A 2 0 0 0<br />
THE<br />
AUSTRALIAN<br />
TERRITORIES<br />
COLLECTION<br />
2000<br />
AUSTRALIA POST ISSUES STAMPS FOR THREE EXTERNAL AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES.<br />
THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS THE FULL COLLECTION OF TERRITORIES STAMPS RELEASED IN 2000,<br />
COVERING AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY, CHRISTMAS ISLAND AND COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS.<br />
Territories collection 2000 (front spread)<br />
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