RAW CUT

Adrian Keefe

Born Hurstville, Sydney, 1944. Left home at age 15 to join Navy. Became 1st discotheque disc jockey with Lee Gordon at King Cross 1962. Opened Jewel Box Revue [Australia’s first drag show at The Cross] as music and sound bloke with Lee Gordon in 1963. Opened Les Girls in 1963 with Sammy Lee and Reg Boom as music bloke and sound technician. Joined army after stint in Africa in 1967 and was shoved into officer school and made a Lieutenant. Lived Indonesia, Africa, Papua New Guinea for most of my adult life. At age 45 went back to school and got Bachelor of Arts [Deakin] in social science and Master of Arts [Deakin] in Australian Studies as off-campus student. Wrote RANE between 1982 and 1986. Updated it in 1996. Edited it [halved] this year to make it contemporary. Research postgrad student at SCU and UNE for doctorate with thesis prep on Stolen generations, political assassination, hate.

I go offline as from 5pm 30/5/02 and I will not be back online. My postal address for the while is 109 Bradley Street, GUYRA, NSW 2365, Australia.

This book had 5440 readers on 18 June 2018.

Adrian Keefe

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

RANE is based upon real characters. The person whom RANE characterises is in his thirties, is a result of Stolen Generations and has found his community after being ‘discovered’ by a relative at a Redfern sporting event many years ago. I have known RANE for over thirty years and knew his family of Chinese sister and non-Aboriginal brother and adoptive mum and dad. Brett Whiteley painted RANE many years ago.