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FAITH BANDLER : CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Title no: 403180- Access copy available.
video, col., sound, 26 min.

Interviewee: Faith Bandler
Interviewer: Robin Hughes
Production company: Film Australia

A documentary in the Australian Biography series from 1993, profiling the life of Faith Bandler. Includes Faith Bandler’s recollections of her involvement with Pearl Gibbs and the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship (AAF); her being encouraged by AAF patron, Jessie Street to work towards a Referendum for a change in the Australian Constitution so that Indigenous Australian people could be subject to the same federal legislation as all other Australians; her work in the 10 year campaign for the 1967 Referendum; and her subsequent establishment of the National Commission for Australian South Sea Islanders.