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'Throughout her stage and screen career, the actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf used the English she only began learning in earnest at about age 11 for diplomatic reasoning. She spoke three Indigenous languages too. Born circa 1967 in the large remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjungka, 100 kilometres south-east of Fitzroy Crossing in the Western Australian Kimberley region, Lawford-Wolf would go on to appear in films such as Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, released in 2002, playing Maude, the mother of two of three little girls stolen from their families, based on a true story that chimed with her own: her father, who worked on a cattle farm, had forcibly been removed from his parents too.' (Introduction)
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Indigenous Art, Beyond Stereotypes
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Subjects:
- Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 single work film/TV
- The Secret River 2005 single work novel
- Dark Emu : Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident? 2014 single work criticism
- Cut the Sky 2015 single work drama
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