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Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo
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Title:
Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo
NFSA ID
1062165
Year
2012
Courtesy
Blackfella Films
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
This is a production still from the television docudrama Mabo (2012), directed by Rachel Perkins and starring Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo and Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo.
The TV movie chronicles the life of Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Mabo who was the driving force behind the High Court overturning the legal fiction of terra nullius ('nobody's land') applying to Australia.
Photographer
Matt Nettheim
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.