LEGENDARY music group The Seekers were at the The National Portrait Gallery today to officially hand over a portrait to the gallery, titled “The Seekers Reunite 50 Years On.”
The Seekers – Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley – attended the unveiling with the artist, Helen Edwards, to celebrate this addition to the national collection, painted in 2011.
The Seekers were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the UK and the US, with songs such as with “I’ll Never Find Another You”, “A World of Our Own”, “Morningtown Ride”, “Someday, One Day”, “Georgy Girl” and “The Carnival Is Over”, which is still in the top 50 best-selling singles in the UK.
In 1968, they were named as joint Australians of the Year – the only group thus honoured.
“The Seekers Reunite 50 Years On” (2011) painted by Helen Edwards, synthetic polymer paint on linen. A gift of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley 2012. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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