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Justin Olam was initially excluded from making the Dally M cut, however he is getting a fresh invite. This report by the Courier Mail:
[The NRL has backflipped and invited Melbourne Storm sensation Justin Olam to next week’s Dally M Awards after initially snubbing the star centre.] Courier Mail.
This does not show NRL's idiotic blunder but a complete lack of leadership.
In fact, the sentiments shared online and by big-time NRL players, past and present, have indeed played a part in JO being invited to the 2021 Dally M Awards night on Monday.
Anyone who knows this cool and level-headed PNG man, will certainly know that he does not care one bit. Him going to Dally M Awards this year would not change how he plays.
However, It's great to see some sense was put into the 'kokonuts' of those running the NRL Dally M selection.
The people behind NRL and the Dally M Awards curved to social media pressure is a clear indication incompetency at the highest level - what do you think?
Ngaire Laun Joseph was born in Lae, Morobe Province. She is a mix of New Guinea Island and Highlands.
She moved to New Zealand and then settled in Australia where her music career blossomed.
What NGAIIRE 3 Moonshine means
In her own words, NGAIIRE explains the meaning of her new album.
“I am full to the brim of stories that many don’t have the privilege to hold within themselves; some I know quite well and some live deep in my DNA that I won’t have enough lifetimes to unpack,” Ngaiire shares.
“But the ones I know, I will tell how I want to because I can. So here is a collection of love letters to 3 entities – myself, my country and those I love both here and now departed.”
NGAIIRE PNG Background
Now 37, she made it to the second season of Australia Got Talent in 2004. She left the AGT judges in surprise with the range of vocals and unique blend of music.
Unsurprisingly, for those who know NGAIIRE, she has the New Ireland and East New Britain blood in her. SHE ALSO HOLDS A BACHELOR IN PURE JAZZ MUSIC.
Her stage name NGAIIRE. She is a Papua New Guinea-born Australian-based singer and song writer.
PNG has lost a music legend BURUKA TAU. He was a core member of Sanguma band and Yothu Yindi.
Mr Tau became a music teacher at the Ela Murray International School. He taught the Australian sibling band members the Sheppard. He was instrumental in the development of the band musical abilities of the Sheppards.
Buruka Tau musical talent had taken him far and wide. Form his humble village to world stages, teaching and imparting his musical skills, to entertaining people at hotels and gatherings.
PNG has lost a wonderful and talented musician in Buruka Tau.
He passed-on on the 3rd September 2021 after a long health battle.
But as the legend and musical genius he was, he fought to the very end doing what he loved most, making music.
