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Bindi Williams (the first Indigenous Australian actor to have a lead role in a television series) in the opening credits for Woobinda (screen cap)
form y separately published work icon Woobinda - Animal Doctor series - publisher   film/TV   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Woobinda - Animal Doctor
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The central character in Woobinda is John Stevens, a veterinarian with a practice in the fictitious New South Wales country town of Gattens Creek. A widower, he has a teenage daughter, Tiggie, and an adopted Aboriginal son, Kevin. Stevens is assisted in his practice by Peter Fischer, a German vet, and his friend Jack Johnson, a local bushman. Called 'Woobinda' by local Aboriginals, Stevens has strong compassion for animals and is constantly striving to preserve fauna from what he calls 'senseless slaughter.'

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form y separately published work icon Talk to My Agent Ron McLean , 1969 Z1638186 1969 single work film/TV
— Appears in: In Focus : Scripts from Commercial Television's Second Decade 1972; (p. 14-32) When Kevin Stevens, the adopted Aboriginal son of vet John Stevens (aka Woobinda), becomes an animal's agent, it looks as though he'll send the movie producers broke. 1969

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y separately published work icon Woobinda : Animal Doctor Victor Barnes , Sydney : Golden Press , 1969 Z846492 1969 single work children's fiction children's
y separately published work icon Woobinda Animal Doctor Annual Manchester : World Distributors , 1970 Z1370749 1970 anthology children's fiction children's adventure A collection of stories, features and games related to the Australian outback.
y separately published work icon Woobinda to the Rescue Victor Barnes , Sydney : Golden Press , 1972 Z846496 1972 single work children's fiction children's
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