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The Coolbaroo Club

  • March 1996
  • 53mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Roger Scholes,

    Starring

    Christopher Robin Bodney,

    Eileen Clarke,

    Frank Bropho,

    Gladys Bropho

    ...

    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.