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Friday 10 January 2003, Media Release

MARY G TO HEADLINE SURVIVAL CONCERT

Entertainer and television presenter, Mary G, will headline the annual Survival Concert to be held at La Perouse on "Australia Day", Sunday January 26th.

Known as the "Queen of the Kimberley", Mary G (aka Mark Bin Barker) is a WA-based comedian, artist, and radio and television host.

Mary G will join a host of other Indigenous artists at the annual Survival Day Concert to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and 20 years of Land Rights in NSW.

To be held at its traditional home of Woomera Oval at La Perouse, this year's event is once again sponsored by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

Chairperson of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Les Trindall, said that this year's concert will also celebrate 20 years of legislative land rights in NSW and honor those who have fought to achieve Aboriginal rights in this State.

"We will be inviting many of our brothers and sisters who have fought for Aboriginal rights in NSW and those involved in establishing the NSW Aboriginal Land Council under the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act," Chairperson Trindall said.

"Many people, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, have forgotten that part of our Survival as Aboriginal people in this State is due to those people who rallied, protested and fought to establish our rights in law. At the Land Council we think these people should be honored and acknowledged and what better way than through music and celebration."

Since the first concert which was held on "Australia Day" in 1988 as a protest of the bi-centennial celebrations of the colonial invasion, the Survival Concert has evolved to become an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.