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Tagged: Australian Biography

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National Reconciliation Week 2020: Australian Biography
Discover four inspiring Australian Biography life stories for National Reconciliation Week 2020.
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Australian Biography: Faith Bandler
From the Film Australia Collection. Made by Film Australia 1993. Directed by Frank Heimans. Born in NSW in 1920, Faith Bandler is a descendant of South Sea Islanders. During the 1950s, she became...
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Australian Biography: Neville Bonner
From the Film Australia Collection. Made by Film Australia 1992. Directed by Frank Heimans. Born in northern NSW in 1922, Neville Bonner started his working life as a ringbarker, canecutter and...
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Australian Biography: Rosalie Kunoth - Monks
From The Film Australia Collection. Made by Film Australia 1995. Directed by Frank Heimans. Until the age of nine, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks lived on remote Utopia Station in the Northern Territory where...
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Australian Biography: Charles Perkins
From the Film Australia Collection 1998. Made by Film Australia. Directed by Robin Hughes. In a life of exceptional achievement, Charles Perkins, soccer star, university graduate, Aboriginal activist...
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Australian Biography: Lowitja O'Donoghue
Lois O’Donoghue was born at Indulkana in the remote north-west of South Australia in 1932, a time when the situation for Aboriginal people could not have been more desperate. Lois never knew her...
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