Native Born/Trials of Life Australian Story : Season 2 Episode 9
ABC 30m int(0)
Aired: April 12th, 1997 @ 8:00 PM EST on ABC
Native Born The story of Neil Murray, a forty one year old farmer, singer song writer, poet and musician. He composed Christine Anu's big hit, My Island Home. Neil was born in western Victoria, of Scottish ancestry, and has recently returned to his own homeland on a small farm near the Grampians, after an absence of twenty years. He spent much of that time living with aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. He helped form the Warumpi Band, the trail blazing group who were the first mixed aboriginal / white band to penetrate Australia's booming rock'n'roll scene. ...