Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, when she was 17 stared in the 1955 film Jedda about an Aboriginal girl adopted into a white family. Last night she was on the ABC panel show Q & A.
She was asked how living standards of Aboriginals have changed in the 50 years since Jedda was made. Her reply was “nothing has changed”, I’m sure if she said that to be dramatic or she really believes that. But I think it is a bit irresponsible to be so melodramatic on such an important. Surely you can make the point that Aboriginal people still have a low living standard than the rest of Australian society without being so dramatic.
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