<Li> The documentary Lousy Little Sixpence (1983) was the first film to deal with the Stolen Generations . Directed and produced by Alec Morgan, it won several international and Australian awards . The Australian Broadcasting Corporation did not air it for two years . The film is now standard fare in educational institutions, and has been highly influential . </Li> <Li> The documentary film Kanyini (2006), directed by Melanie Hogan, featured Bob Randall . He is an elder of the Yankunytjatjara people and one of the listed traditional owners of Uluru . He was taken away from his mother as a child, living at the government reservation until he was 20, and working at various jobs, including as a carpenter, stockman, and crocodile hunter . He helped establish the Adelaide Community College and has lectured on Aboriginal cultures . He served as the director of the Northern Australia Legal Aid Service and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander centres at the Australian National University, University of Canberra, and University of Wollongong . </Li> <Li> Episode 5, "Unhealthy Government Experiment", of the 1998 SBS documentary television series First Australians concerns the Stolen Generations in Western Australia . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The Australian film Rabbit - Proof Fence (2002), directed by Phillip Noyce, was based on the book Follow the Rabbit - Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara . It concerns the author's mother and two other mixed - race Aboriginal girls who ran away from Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, and returned to their Aboriginal families . In a subsequent interview with the ABC, Doris recalled her removal in 1931 from her mother at age three or four, and subsequent rearing at the settlement . She was not reunited with her mother until she was 25; all those years, she believed that her mother had given her away . When the two women were reunited, Doris was no longer able to speak her native language and had been taught to regard Indigenous culture as evil . </Li> <Li> Baz Luhrmann's 2008 film Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, deals with the Stolen Generations . </Li> </Ul>

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