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Mabo (film)
''Mabo'' is an Australian docudrama TV film, released in 2012, which relates the successful legal battle waged by Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Koiki Mabo to bring about native land title legislation in Australia. Synopsis ''Mabo'' tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes – Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander man who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of '' terra nullius''. Cast * Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo **Gedor Zaro as Young Eddie * Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo (née Neehow) * Ewen Leslie as Bryan Keon-Cohen * Colin Friels as Justice Moynahan * Miranda Otto as Margaret White * Tom Budge as Greg McIntyre *Felix Williamson as Ron Castan * Leon Ford as Henry Reynolds * Lasarus Ratuere as Malcolm Mabo * Damien Garvey as Conroy *Heath Bergerson as Davy * Miranda Tapsell as Davy’s wife * Robyn Moore as Barbara Hocking * Charles Passi as Benny Mabo * Rob Carlton as Paddy Kilkoran *Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Indigenous Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She founded and was co-director of the independent film production company Blackfella Films from 1992 until 2022. Perkins and the company were responsible for producing '' First Australians'' (2008), an award-winning documentary series that remains the highest-selling educational title in Australia, and which Perkins regards as her most important work. She directed the films ''Radiance'' (1998), '' One Night the Moon'' (2001), '' Bran Nue Dae'' (2009), the courtroom drama telemovie '' Mabo'' (2012), and '' Jasper Jones'' (2017). The acclaimed television drama series '' Redfern Now'' was made by Blackfella Films, and Perkins directed two episodes as well as the feature-length conclusion to the series, ''Promise Me'' (2015). Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra. She is the daughter of Aboriginal activist Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television show, television and feature film, film, which features Drama (film and television), dramatized Historical reenactment, re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typically strive to adhere to known historical facts, while allowing some degree of Artistic license, dramatic license in peripheral details, such as when there are gaps in the historical record. Dialogue may, or may not, include the actual words of Reality, real-life people, as recorded in historical documents. Docudrama producers sometimes choose to film their reconstructed events in the actual locations in which the historical events occurred. A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely "List of films based on actual events, based on true events", a term which implies a greater degree of dramatic lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Passi
Charles Passi is an Australian actor and musician from the Torres Strait Islands. His acting career began as a regular on ''RAN Remote Area Nurse ''RAN (Remote Area Nurse)'' is an Australian television program (drama series) that aired on SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS on 5 January 2006. The series was filmed entirely on Yorke island, Torres Strait, Masig Island (Yorke Island) in the ...''. For this role he was nominated for the 2006 AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. He was also a main cast member of '' Grace Beside Me''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Passi, Charles Australian male television actors Living people Torres Strait Islanders Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Moore (Australian Actress)
Robyn Alison Moore (born 4 November 1971) is an Australian actress. Biography Moore was born in Brisbane. Her first movie role was as an Officer in Locker Room in the zombie film ''Undead'' and earned her a role as Mrs. Della Costa in the 2006 Nine Network Australia series ''Mortified''. She began her acting career in the drama short film The Big Picture which was directed by the Spierig brothers and had her first lead role in Australian Television series '' All Saints''. In 2008 she portrayed June Turner in the series '' K-9'' and appeared in the thriller film '' The Horseman''. Her latest role was as Forensic Investigator Simms in ''Daybreakers''. Filmography Film * ''The Big Picture'' (short film) (2000) as Wendy * ''Back'' (short film) (2002) as Meg * ''Undead'' (2003) as Officer in Locker Room * '' The Horseman'' (2008) as Irene * ''Daybreakers'' (2009) as Forensic Investigator Simms * '' Mabo'' (2012) as Barbara Hocking * ''Huge'' (short film) (2012) as Liz * ''Sliver S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film '' The Sapphires'' and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series '' Love Child''. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series '' Wolf Creek''. Early life Tapsell was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, on 11 December 1987 to Tony and Barbara Tapsell. When she was five the family moved to Jabiru in West Arnhem Land, where she grew up around Kakadu National Park. In 2004, when she was 16, Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from where she graduated in 2008. Career Miranda's first stage appearance was at the Jabiru Wind Festival in September, 1999. She sang as a student with the Jabiru Area School Choir. Tapsell has been active both on stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Reynolds (historian)
Henry Reynolds (born 1938) is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians. He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights, becoming known with his first major work, '' The Other Side of the Frontier'' (1981). Early life and education Henry Reynolds was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1938, the son of John Reynolds, who was a journalist who wrote the first biography of Edmund Barton. He attended Hobart High School. Following this, he attended the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History in 1960, later gaining a Master of Arts in 1964. Career Reynolds taught in secondary schools in Australia and England. He joined the academic staff at Townsville University College (later James Cook University) in 1966 to teach. In the 1970s, he undertook an oral history project. He served as associate professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Castan
Aaron Ronald Castan (29 October 1939 – 21 October 1999) was an Australian barrister and human rights advocate. Legal career Castan played a leading role in some of Australia's more important cases, such as Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen and the Franklin Dam case. One of his most celebrated roles was that of senior counsel in the Mabo case, which overruled the application of the enlarged doctrine of terra nullius in Australia, to recognize Aboriginal land rights in Australian common law for the first time. Castan spent 10 years preparing and arguing the case on behalf of Eddie Mabo, for which he received widespread acclaim. In 1985 Castan, along with Uncle Jim Berg, and Ron Merkel, sued the University of Melbourne and the Museum of Victoria for the return of their collections of Indigenous cultural material and through this act created the Koorie Heritage Trust. He also played a leading role in the legislative discussions on Australian native title law throughout the 1990s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret White (judge)
Margaret Jean White (born 4 June 1943) is a former Supreme Court of Queensland justicethe first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Queensland. White was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 and was elevated to an Appeals Court Justice in 2010 until retirement in 2013. She has also previously served as a law lecturer at the University of Queensland. Royal commission In August 2016, White was appointed joint Commissioner with Mick Gooda for the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, replacing Brian Ross Martin. Naval service White became an inaugural member of the revived Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve (WRANSR) in 1968. She served as a commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve from 2002 to 2010. Order of Australia White was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonita Mabo
Ernestine Bonita Mabo (née Neehow; – 26 November 2018), was an Australian educator and activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. She was the wife of Eddie Mabo until his death in 1992. Early life Ernestine Bonita Neehow was born in Halifax, Queensland, one of 10 children. She was an Australian South Sea Islander of Ni-Vanuatu descent whose ancestors were "Blackbirding, blackbirded" to work in the sugar cane industry in Queensland. Her grandfather was blackbirded from Tanna Island in what is now Vanuatu. Career In 1973, Eddie and Bonita Mabo established the Black Community School in Townsville, where children could learn their own culture rather than white culture. Bonita worked in the school as a teacher's aide and oversaw day-to-day operations. Mabo was an Indigenous rights activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. Honours Mabo was appointed an Officer of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Nullius
''Terra nullius'' (, plural ''terrae nullius'') is a Latin expression meaning " nobody's land". Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. There are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be ''terra nullius'': Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and the Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica, principally Marie Byrd Land. Doctrine In international law, ''terra nullius'' is territory which belongs to no state. Sovereignty over territory which is ''terra nullius'' can be acquired by any state by occupation. According to Oppenheim: "The only territory which can be the object of occupation is that which does not already belong to another state, whether it is uninhabited, or inhabited by persons whose community is not considered to be a state; for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Court Of Australia
The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary legislation. The High Court was established following the passage of the ''Judiciary Act 1903'' (Cth). Its authority derives from chapter III of the Australian Constitution, which vests it (and other courts the Parliament creates) with the judicial power of the Commonwealth. Its internal processes are governed by the ''High Court of Australia Act 1979'' (Cth). The court consists of seven justices, including a chief justice, currently Stephen Gageler. Justices of the High Court are appointed by the governor-general on the formal advice of the attorney-general following the approval of the prime minister and Cabinet. They are appointed permanently until their mandatory retirement at age 70, unless they retire earlier. Typically, the court operates by receiving applicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
