| 词条 | Justine Saunders |
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| name = Justine Saunders | image = Justine_Saunders_in_a_scene_from_Number_96.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Justine Saunders as Rhonda in a scene from Number 96 | birth_name = Justine Florence Saunders | birth_date = 20 February 1953 | birth_place = Quilpie, Queensland, Australia | death_date = {{Dda|2007|04|15|1953|02|20|df=yes}} | death_place = Sydney, Australia | othername = | yearsactive = 1976–2003 | spouse = | website = | awards = 1992 Red Ochre Award }} Justine Florence Saunders, OAM (20 February 1953 – 15 April 2007) was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was a member of the Woppaburra indigenous people, from the Kanomie clan of Great Keppel Island in Queensland. She was born next to a railway track. At the age of 11, she was removed from her mother, Heather and taken to Brisbane and placed in a convent. Heather was not told of Justine's whereabouts for more than ten years, and spent much of that time searching for her. TelevisionShe first came to prominence as a cast member of soap opera Number 96 in 1976, as a character defending the rights of indigenous Australians. Other soap guest roles included that of a flight attendant in Skyways in 1979, and as social worker Pamela Madigan in Prisoner in 1986. Other television credits include: mini-series Women of the Sun (1981), Farscape, Blue Heelers, and MDA. FilmsHer film work includes The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and The Fringe Dwellers. National Order of Australia MedalSaunders received the inaugural Aboriginal Artist of the Year award in 1985.[1] In 1991, Saunders was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), for her services to the performing arts, her services to the National Aboriginal Theatre, and for her assistance in setting up the Black Theatre and the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust. Personal lifeIn 2000, through the indigenous Senator Aden Ridgeway, she returned the medal in protest at the emotional turmoil her mother was suffering over the Howard government's denial of the term "stolen generation". DeathSaunders died of cancer at Hawkesbury District Hospital, Sydney, aged 54.[2][3] Awards
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128253825 |title=Aboriginal award for actress |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=60, |issue=18,239 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=7 September 1985 |accessdate=11 August 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news | first=Gerry | last=Carman | coauthors= | title=A fight against the stereotype |date=18 April 2007 | publisher= | url =http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-fight-against-the-stereotype/2007/04/17/1176696832631.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 | work =The Sydney Morning Herald | pages = | accessdate = 2007-04-19 | language = }}Obituary. 3. ^Obituary "Aboriginal actress who broke stereotypes", by Gerry Carman and Pauline Clague, The Age, 17 April 2007. 4. ^It's an Honour website 5. ^Red Ochre Award {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201115324/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/items/pre-2010/?a=26128 |date= 1 February 2014 }} External links
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