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Lois O'Donoghue

Aboriginal leader and founding chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Lois O'Donoghue has worked tirelessly for her people.
Series : Australian Biography Series 3 | Year : 1994 | Total Duration : 26.5 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
MS B&W photograph of Aboriginal activist Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with Paul Keating at Mabo victory, 1993.
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Access No. 146623 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Pty Ltd | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking of the importance of accepting Aboriginal culture and of Australian identity.
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Access No. 146624 | 43 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Aboriginal activist Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue, 1993.
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Access No. 146625 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Pty Ltd | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Aboriginal activist Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue posing with Charles Perkins and other members of Aboriginal Development Commission board members, early 1980s.
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Access No. 146626 | 54 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Heide Smith Photography | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Aboriginal activist Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue standing next to framed Australian of the Year, 1984 award.
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Access No. 146627 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Canberra Times | B&W |
Low angle MS B&W photograph of Aboriginal activist Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue giving speech from podium as Chairperson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission 1990.
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Access No. 146628 | 7 secs | 1990s | Australia | © ATSIC | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her background and the identity of her father.
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Access No. 146629 | 40 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Framed B&W photograph of Aboriginal children collecting firewood, 1930s.
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Access No. 146630 | 7 secs | 1930s | SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her childhood and being removed from her Pitjantjatjara home by missionaries to live in a mission.
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Access No. 146631 | 44 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Framed B&W photograph of three Aboriginal babies with caption reading "Babies Rescued from the Bush", 1936.
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Access No. 146632 | 6 secs | 1930s | SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
Slow zoom in from MS to CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her father's double life.
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Access No. 146633 | 29 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage "Colebrook Home Christmas 1936" with Aboriginal girls playing game in yard, non-indigenous women in yard, Aboriginal children walking in line and Santa Claus visiting in Colebrook playground. WS accommodation huts and large group of Aboriginal girls assembled for camera. WS children rolling tyres in yard and track following boy curled inside tyre as it rolls. Aboriginal children in large picnic under trees. GS three small Aboriginal children sitting on step with young girl standing behind them.
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Access No. 146634 | 40 secs | 1930s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © Public Domain | B&W |
B&W photograph of missionary holding two Aboriginal babies and two toddlers in her lap with caption across photo reading "My Arms are Full with Four Golden Treasures". Zoom in to children, one of which is Lois, 1936.
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Access No. 146635 | 11 secs | 1930s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
B&W photograph of Colebrook Aborigines Mission and Childrens Home sign with early mission building in background.
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Access No. 146636 | 5 secs | 1920s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Sisters Rutter (left) and Hyde (right).
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Access No. 146637 | 5 secs | 1960s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the relationship between the Sisters Miss Hyde and Miss Rutter and their young Aboriginal charges at their mission home.
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Access No. 146638 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue as a young girl. Photograph of O'Donoghue and three other small children on verandah of Colebrook. Group photograph of girls in two rows at Colebrook.
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Access No. 146639 | 15 secs | 1930s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the difficulties of fitting in with traditional families who fostered her during school holidays.
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Access No. 146640 | 22 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W posed group photograph of young Aboriginal girls in dark dresses. Zoom in to Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue as a young girl amongst them.
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Access No. 146641 | 10 secs | 1930s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
B&W photograph of children standing in lines outside Quorn Primary School, late 1920s.
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Access No. 146643 | 5 secs | 1920s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
B&W photograph of Aboriginal children of various ages sitting around tables inside dining room, Colebrook, 1948.
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Access No. 146644 | 3 secs | 1940s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
B&W posed group photograph of Aboriginal girls holding school cases in front of them, 1929.
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Access No. 146645 | 9 secs | 1920s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about how ill-prepared she was on leaving Colebrook childrens' home at the age of 16.
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Access No. 146646 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with scarf tied around her head smiling to camera at age 16.
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Access No. 146647 | 7 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about being sent to Victor Harbour as a domestic servant by Colebrook childrens' home on turning 16. CU as O'Donoghue explains how she took steps to change professions to nursing.
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Access No. 146648 | 1 min 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue posing in nurse's uniform. Photograph of group of four nurses posing in front of verandah.
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Access No. 146649 | 16 secs | 1950s | SA, Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about an interview she had arranged with the matron of Royal Adelaide Hospital. Slow zoom out to MS as she describes the treatment and negative attitude she received from the matron.
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Access No. 146650 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue posing amidst other nurses in group photograph.
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Access No. 146651 | 5 secs | 1950s | Victor Harbour, SA, Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her activism in the fight to allow Aboriginal women and men to train as nurses and apprentices after the negative treatment she had received.
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Access No. 146652 | 33 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W group photograph of Aboriginal men and women of varying ages.
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Access No. 146653 | 7 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
Slow zoom in to interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about a large Aboriginal Advancement League rally held in Adelaide Town Hall and the role she played at the time.
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Access No. 146654 | 1 min 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Royal Adelaide Hospital ward interior lined with patients in beds attended by nurses.
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Access No. 146655 | 6 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Royal Adelaide Hospital | Colour |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her determination to be the best nurse the Royal Adelaide Hospital had had.
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Access No. 146656 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue posing amidst other nurses in group photograph.
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Access No. 146657 | 5 secs | 1950s | Victor Harbour, SA, Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
High angle WS over historic Royal Adelaide Hospital building.
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Access No. 146658 | 7 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Royal Adelaide Hospital | Colour |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about visiting India with the Australian Baptist Mission as a relief nurse in the early 1960s.
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Access No. 146659 | 20 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with hair in plait smiling to camera.
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Access No. 146660 | 6 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the living conditions in India she experienced as a relief nurse.
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Access No. 146661 | 22 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue holding an Indian baby during her time as a relief nurse in India.
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Access No. 146662 | 7 secs | 1960s | India | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about successfully delivering a set of twins whilst a relief nurse in India.
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Access No. 146663 | 25 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt down B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue as a relief nurse in India tending to newborn twins Exie and Bition, one in each hand.
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Access No. 146664 | 8 secs | 1960s | India | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the perspective she gained through working away from Australia.
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Access No. 146665 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of Australian Aboriginal people living in desert. VS people gathered around open fire, cooking, eating and gatherings of family groups with dogs.
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Access No. 146666 | 29 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Cinetel Productions Pty Ltd | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her motives for joining the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.
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Access No. 146667 | 30 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue.
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Access No. 146668 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her long held feelings about her mother and how she went about locating her near Coober Pedy.
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Access No. 146669 | 1 min 28 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with her mother Lily with car in background.
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Access No. 146670 | 7 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about how she felt on being reunited with her mother.
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Access No. 146671 | 29 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue standing in front of humpy with two young children.
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Access No. 146672 | 6 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the conditions her mother lived in.
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Access No. 146673 | 42 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with her mother Lily.
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Access No. 146674 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
Zoom in to CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the sadness she felt at the life her mother had been living.
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Access No. 146675 | 32 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue's mother Lily with old car in background.
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Access No. 146676 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | B&W |
CU interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her mother's vigil on hearing that O'Donoghue was coming to see her. ECU of O'Donoghue's face as she becomes emotional and crying over how her mother must have felt over the many years that they were separated.
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Access No. 146677 | 1 min 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour photograph Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with her mother and sister.
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Access No. 146689 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | Colour |
Slow zoom in to CU interview with an emotional Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her feelings towards being taken from her family at a young age.
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Access No. 146690 | 1 min 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W CU photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue smiling.
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Access No. 146691 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © John Fairfax Pty Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about meeting and getting together with her future husband Gordon Plumis Smart.
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Access No. 146692 | 1 min 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS archival colour photograph Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue on her wedding day, 1979, with Gordon Plumis Smart. WS of O'Donoghue and Smart with wedding guests in background
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Access No. 146693 | 9 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about becoming the Aboriginal Liaison Officer with the Education Department soon after her marriage.
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Access No. 146694 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W CU photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue smiling.
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Access No. 146695 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © John Fairfax Pty Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about nominating for and being elected to the post of Chairperson for the National Aboriginal Conference.
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Access No. 146696 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue smiling.
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Access No. 146697 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about nominating for and being elected to the post of Chairperson for the National Aboriginal Conference.
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Access No. 146698 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from CU B&W archival photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue clasping hands with Clyde Holding to MS of them smiling to camera, 1984.
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Access No. 146699 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Canberra Times | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her role in advising the Government for a replacement body for NAC which became ATSIC.
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Access No. 146700 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS B&W archival photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue and Gerry Hand.
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Access No. 146701 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about the establishment the 60 regional councils and 800 elected representatives.
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Access No. 146702 | 19 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival colour news footage of Senator Gareth Evans, Senate Leader, in Parliament declaring the Native Title Bill 1993 as an urgent bill with cut to Senator Robert Hill objecting loudly. WS of parliament in session as debate continues and VS Greens Senator Christabel Charmarette announcing support for the bill at press conference. GS Aboriginal people walking along track and WS of Aboriginal stockman herding cattle on horseback. MS Prime Minister Paul Keating shaking hands and kissing Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue as he enters room to applause.
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Access No. 146703 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © ABC TV | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about getting the Native Title Bill through Parliament.
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Access No. 146704 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour news footage of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue convening press conference with ATSIC board
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Access No. 146705 | 7 secs | 1990s | Australia | © ABC TV | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue talking about her role in getting the Native Title Bill through Parliament.
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Access No. 146706 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue shaking hands with Prime Minister Paul Keating, 1993.
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Access No. 146707 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Pty Ltd | Colour |
Archival colour news footage of Prime Minister Paul Keating addressing large Aboriginal crowd at rally, 1992.
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Access No. 146708 | 25 secs | 1990s | Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © ABC TV | Colour |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue criticising the Mission authorities for the removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
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Access No. 146709 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W 1936 photograph of group of Aboriginal children from Colebrook children's home with adult carers.
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Access No. 146710 | 6 secs | 1930s | Quorn, SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue criticising the Mission authorities for the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and for their attitude to Aboriginal culture.
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Access No. 146711 | 26 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of group of Aboriginal children in outdoor setting.
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Access No. 146712 | 5 secs | 1940s | SA, Australia | © State Library of South Australia | B&W |
Slow zoom in to MS interview with Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue expressing her lack of resentment for White Australia in response to question.
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Access No. 146713 | 42 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Closing credits with MS B&W photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with Prime Minister Paul Keating, both smiling with other Aboriginal representatives behind them.
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Access No. 146714 | 8 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Sydney Morning Herald | Colour |
Closing credits with archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue smiling.
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Access No. 146715 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue at desk looking over glasses, 1989.
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Access No. 146716 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W CU photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue smiling.
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Access No. 146717 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Unclear | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W CU photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue in profile, head tilted, looking serious.
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Access No. 146718 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Canberra Times | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue with hand up in front of her, standing in front of bank of microphones, 1993.
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Access No. 146719 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Canberra Times | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue and her mother in outback setting.
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Access No. 146720 | 4 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue, | B&W |
Closing credits with archival B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue as a young woman dressed for party.
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Access No. 146721 | 4 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue, | B&W |
Closing credits with B&W MS photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue holding hands with Dalai Lama, 1991.
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Access No. 146722 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue, | B&W |
Closing credits with B&W CU photograph of Lois (Lowitja) O'Donoghue looking at camera over her glasses.
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Access No. 146723 | 13 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The Age | B&W |
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