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Guest Writer Sara Khan on Deborah Mailman

Guest writer Sara Khan reflects on how actor Deborah Mailman helped shape and influence her own body of work as a young First Nations creative.

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Deborah Mailman in The Sapphires: Yellow bird

This early scene in The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012), introduces us to 3 of the main characters in the film – Gail (Deborah Mailman), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and Julie (Jessica Mauboy),

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Deborah Mailman in The Sapphires: Stolen children

This clip from The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012) features a key moment in the film where we discover the reason behind the fraught relationship between Gail (Deborah Mailman) and her cousi

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The Sapphires blue-sequinned dress

A long blue-sequinned dress worn by Julie (played by Jessica Mauboy) in The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012).

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Unpacking a blue dress from The Sapphires

NFSA staff unpack a blue dress, as worn in The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012). 

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The Sapphires perform

Still from the feature film of The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012). L-R: Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell.

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The Sapphires

The real Sapphires, the original singing group that inspired the 2004 stage play and 2012 film. Left to right: Beverley Briggs, Laurel Robinson, Lois Peeler and Naomi Mayers.

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The Sapphires on stage

Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell, Jessica Mauboy and Shari Sebbens on stage in a scene from The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012).