Professor Larissa Behrendt with Professor Simon Rice.
In 1990 and 1991, three Aboriginal children were murdered in the rural town of Bowraville NSW – Colleen Craig, Evelyn Greenup and Clinton Speedy-Duroux. Despite there having been two trials and a coroner’s inquest, no one was ever convicted of the murders. Directed by Professor Larissa Behrendt, this film follows the journey of the murdered children’s parents as they continue to fight for justice.
Larissa Behrendt is the Professor of Indigenous Research and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and a founding member of the Australian Academy of Law. Her most recent book
is Indigenous Australia for Dummies. Larissa wrote and directed the feature film, Innocence Betrayed and has written and produced several short films. She is the Ambassador of the Guwara Aboriginal Campus at St. Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney and a board member of the Sydney Story Factory, a literacy program in Redfern. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.
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