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Program: NT mourns Ted Egan

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Northern Territory folk musician, author and political campaigner Ted Egan has died at the age of 93.

He moved to the Top End as a teenager and got involved in local sport and Indigenous rights.

And ended up as the Queen's representative in the Territory.

But it was his long career as a singer and song-writer that made him a household name there.

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Former NT Administrator Ted Egan playing his "Fosterphone" at the Woodford Folk Festival.

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