2007
Tweed Sun
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Whilst making my first documentary, Bypassed: The Erosion of our Cultural and Environmental Landscapes, I worked with the Tweed Aboriginal Community and several environment groups in Bundjalung Country, Northern New South Wales. I also became the President of the Tugun Cobaki Alliance, fighting against a proposed Bypass which was going to destroy an important cultural and environmental space, the Murraba landscape. This is an article from the Daily Mail, published during that time, circa 2006. Excerpt:
“[Magali McDuffie] said that barely four months off the deadline for completion of the primary conditions for approval of the bypass, the compensatory habitat package had yet to be finalised. ‘Furthermore, another condition of approval was that the area surrounding and directly above the tunnel - protected wetlands - should be revegetated to its original state. The Abi Group was penalised last year for polluting protected wetlands and ordered to pay $30,000 in costs for the offence of polluting waters in the Brunswick River during the construction of the Yelgun to Chinderah freeway. So why shouldn’t citizens be worried about what is happening to the Tweed River and Cobaki Lakes?’.”
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2004
Tweed Sun
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Interview with Brian & Magali McDuffie on the production of the Speed on Tweed 2003 Documentary.
2003
Tweed Times
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Screening of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in Murwillumbah.
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2003
The Daily News
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Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in Murwillumbah.
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2002
Murwillumbah Weekly
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An article about the Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in February 2003.
2002
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A newspaper article promoting the release of the documentary Speed On Tweed 2002
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2002
Murwillumbah Regent Cinema Program
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Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002 (February 2003).
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2004
Video Of The Month
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A review of the documentary Speed on Tweed 2003 published by the Australian Classic Car Magazine in July 2004.
I was already an activist way back in my uni days… In 1997 I was heading a team of students organising a huge Telethon event at the Universite Catholique de l’Ouest, with all the proceeds going to research into genetic diseases. Here I am talking about the event on the local radio in Angers. Article from Le Courier de l’Ouest newspaper.
