Aboriginal actors Terry Roberts and Joelene King were two students from Sydney's Aboriginal-Islanders Dance Theatre that Bowie secured to star in the video of 1983 Trans-Atlantic smash hit “Lets Dance”.

According to Starzone, Minutes before going on stage for Bowie’s 1983 Sydney concert, Bowie presented members of an Aboriginal dance school a cheque for an unspecified amount. Present were the stars of the "Let's Dance" video, and it was reportedly a welcome boost for the school as funds were running out.

After the break up of Pseudo Echo, bass player Piero Gigliotti played in a Bowie cover band called Diamond Dogs which included Chris Doheney from Geisha. Later he appeared in another Bowie tribute band called All The Young Dudes.

Gigliotti now works in a restaurant in the Melbourne suburbs and plays bass in a local cafe band called Sofa.

When David Bowie was recording the second Tin Machine album in Sydney, he popped in to say hello to local band The Celibate Rifles. Bowie’s attempt to make a rough and raucous rock album was met with mixed reaction overseas, but Australian critics observed it was highly derivative of The Rifles.

Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrels guested on the 1990 single ‘Disco Inferno’ by lead singer and guitarist (for the Celibate Rifles), Damien Lovelock. Lovelock has also appeared in several Bowie tributes with Jeff Duff and has also found fame as a presenter on the SBS football show 'The World Game', having his own, often light-hearted, segment known as Fans Corner.

Karma Country lead singer Brendan Gallagher has some interesting Bowie connections.

In September 1999 Brendan was asked by British producer Marius de Vries (Bjork, Neil Finn, Madonna) to play guitar on his re-mix of David Bowie’s ‘Survive’. The song, from Bowie’s ‘Hours’ album, was released as a single in Europe, USA and UK in January 2000.

Bowie is also a known user of Brendan’s book "Open Tuning Chord Book For Guitar" and in February, 2004, Gallagher was invited backstage by David Bowie at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

New Zealand music legend Neil Finn (Crowded House / Split Enz) is a considerable fan of David Bowie. As far back as 2001, Finn was covering “Golden Years” (at one stage joined by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam to duet on the number).

Bowie and Finn were scheduled to play and collaborate at the aborted Gisborne 2000 concert.

In 2003, Neil and brother Tim began working with long term Bowie producer Tony Visconti. Violinist Lisa Germano has also been a session musician for both Neil Finn and David Bowie.

British jazz fusion musician Robin Lumley and some time Spiders From Mars member is now a resident of Melbourne, Victoria.

After leaving the Spiders From Mars, Robin has produced over 30 albums, some of which have gold and platinum status. Robin has composed and produced music for over 250 television and radio commercials and has numerous television screen credits for productions which have been screened on Channel 4, BBC, ITV UK, Discovery Channel USA and the ABC amongst others. Robin has also been a composer for the Perth Theatre Company.

Apart from covering Bowie’s 1974 chart topper Sorrow, Australian band Powderfinger lists Iggy Pop and David Bowie (among others) as “inspiration” in the liner notes for “Like a Dog”.

Lead singer Bernard Fanning says his taste in music was highly influenced by his older brother who was into Bowie. “He was 17 when I was 7 and he was listening to David Bowie. That was in the 1970s. So my other brother and I were getting into Bowie and The Beatles when we were in primary school.”

Brisbane artist Butterfly Boucher sang an update of “Changes” with David Bowie for the soundtrack to Shrek 2.

“Several months after I’d finished recording the song, [Bowie] got very interested in being part of it,” she says excitedly “so he put vocals over it while he was somewhere in the Bahamas. I didn’t believe it was actually going to happen for ages, and I wasn’t going to believe it until I heard the mix with his voice on it. When it finally came back I was just thinking, ‘Oh my God, is that crazy! I’m singing with David Bowie!’”

In addition to supporting Bowie on every Australian date of the Reality Tour, Something For Kate have been known to play “Space Oddity” and “Ashes to Ashes” to live audiences.

A year after the tour, long term Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson played on “Washed Out To Sea” from SFK’s chart topping album Desert Lights.

The latest project of Australian singer and band-leader, Jeff Duff merges the styles of David Bowie and Frank Sinatra and has produced two albums; Ground Control to Frank Sinatra, and Lost in the Stars.

In addition to this, Duff also produces fully-fledged Bowie tribute shows in Sydney on a regular basis.

As part of the Perth International Arts Festival, a performance of Ngapartji Ngapartji includes among other things, interpretations of David Bowie songs in the rare Aboriginal language known as Pitjantjarajara.

Ngapartji Ngapartji meaning "I Give You Something, You Give Me Something" was directed by playright Scott Rankin. Trevor Jamieson, who co-created the production, performed the lead role.

A performance of Michael Kantor's Sleeping Beauty with Alison Bell, Renee Geyer, Grant Smith & Ian Stenlake includes spectacular live theatrical performances of "Life On Mars?", "Starman" and "Rock n Roll Suicide" repsectively.

Described as "Goth-punk meets classical elegance while gospel collides with glam", the performance promises to "deliver us into the power and the passion of the freat song-writers of our time, including Nick Cave, Elvis Costello and David Bowie".