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Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival: Community

Lousy Little Sixpence

Film still from LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE: Two women sit at a table and look into the camera. Behind them is a flower arrangement.
© Courtesy of NFSA

Fri 25.10.
14:30

  • Director

    Alec Morgan

  • Australia / 1983
    55 min. / DCP / Original version

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

  • Video Introduction: Elena Guest (NFSA), Alec Morgan

In 1909 the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines began its campaign of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them as servants in white homes, destroying entire communities in the process. By the 1930s the First Nations people had begun to self-organize and protest against the discriminatory policies. The story of their struggle is told here through archival material, photos, and witness interviews.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media