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The Coolbaroo Club

1996

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The Coolbaroo Club
Ronin Films

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Genre: Documentary

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Runtime: 53 min

Average vote: 0

Release date: 1996-03-01

Production Countries: AU

Director: Roger Scholes

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Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club",  which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.

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