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Preserving the Don Banks Collection

Preserving the Don Banks Collection
This appeal closed on 30 June 2016. Any donations received after this date will be directed towards The National Library of Australia Fund, which supports conservation and digitisation of the Library’s collection.
Portrait of Don Banks in front of poster for UNSW Opera performance, photographer unknown, c1970-1980, nla.obj-136826587
Join with us to preserve and digitise the work of internationally acclaimed composer Don Banks (1923–1980).
In a career spanning jazz performances with Graeme Bell and Cleo Laine, film scores for Hammer horror films, compositions for classical ensembles and pioneering electronic music in Australia, Don Banks was, at one time, Australia’s most successful musical export. As an enduring testament to his contribution to, and influence upon, Australian music the Don Banks Estate and the Library continue to receive frequent requests for access to his collection of work, manuscripts and papers from st ....

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Why Rosaleen Norton, 'the witch of Kings Cross', was a groundbreaking bohemian

Why Rosaleen Norton, the witch of Kings Cross , was a groundbreaking bohemian
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Rosaleen Norton, or the witch of Kings Cross , is finally receiving the attention she deserves.
Born in Dunedin in 1917, emigrating with her family to Sydney in 1925, and dying in 1979, Norton was a trailblazing woman and under-appreciated cultural touchstone of 20th century Australia.
A self-proclaimed witch, Norton experienced childhood visions. From around the age of 23, she practised trance magic and, later, sex magic, in various flats and squats in inner-city Sydney.
Trance magic involved Norton meditating (sometimes with the assistance of various substances, ingested and/or inhaled) and raising her consciousness. The aim was to transcend her physical body and conscious mind to experience higher forms of existence. ....

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Friday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, 'the witch of Kings Cross', was a groundbreaking bohemian

Rosaleen Norton, or “the witch of Kings Cross,” is finally receiving the attention she deserves. Born in Dunedin in 1917, emigrating with her family to Sydney in 1925, and dying in 1979, Norton was a trailblazing woman and under-appreciated cultural touchstone of 20th century Australia.
A self proclaimed witch, Norton experienced childhood visions. From around the age of 23, she practised trance magic and, later, sex magic in various flats and squats in inner-city Sydney.
Trance magic involved Norton meditating (sometimes with the assistance of various substances, ingested and/or inhaled) and raising her consciousness. The aim was to transcend her physical body and conscious mind to experience higher forms of existence. ....

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