'National treasure': Indigenous actor and advocate Rosalie Kunoth-Monks dies aged 85

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In an extraordinary life of service to her people, the Arrente/Amatjere woman was a veteran of more than 60 years in the Aboriginal struggle. 9News

one of their greatest warrior women with the passing of Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM. She was 85.

In 1953, as a teenager, she became the first Aboriginal female to star in a leading film role when director Charles Chauvel cast her inTo this day, people in the bush communities and town camps would playfully call her by that name: Jedda. As chancellor of the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and through her support for remote schooling in language, she raised her voice to improve educational opportunities for Indigenous children everywhere.

During the emergency phase of the intervention, she travelled the country speaking out against the discriminatory measures.

 

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Struggle? They get more perks than anyone else

Q. What is needed to be a 'national treasure'? A. You need to be a left handed Aboriginal lesbian female, living in a 'phone box at Kings Cross. What utter shit this label 'national treasure' is. Just utter Woke garbage.

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