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Host a Screening of Rebel with a Cause (Pat O'Shane)
Pat O' Shane AM defied the odds becoming one of the most brilliant legal game changers the country has ever seen.
Published 11 April 2024 2:36pm
By SBS, NITV
Source: NITV
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REBEL WITH A CAUSE – PAT O’SHANE is the first episode of the four-part series that celebrates the personal journeys of four outstanding First Nations rebels; Senator Neville Bonner, Poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Magistrate Pat O' Shane and Media icon Tiga Bayles who put everything on the line for change.
Being told as a schoolgirl she didn't have the brains to keep going, Pat O' Shane AM defied the odds, becoming one of the most brilliant legal game changers the country has ever seen. Now 80, Pat is on the trail of her ambitious Federal election campaign, retracing along the way her exceptional leadership credentials and unstoppable gusto. Growing up in North Queensland with her Irish father, Aboriginal mother and four siblings, for a short time they lived in a tent next to a Cairns beach swamp. Pat' s determination sees her graduate school and become Queensland' s first certified Aboriginal female teacher. She soon begins revising her teaching curriculum to include Aboriginal narratives.
Enduring her mother' s death and a debilitating depression, she leaves teaching to become Australia' s first Aboriginal law graduate, barrister, and NSW Commonwealth Department Head. Pat led the drafting of the NSW Land Rights Act. In 1986, she returned to the justice system as a Magistrate, remaining on the bench until her retirement in 2013. During her time as a Magistrate, she advocated for sentencing as a last option. Because she saw things differently the media launched a volatile character assassination against her. Hard knock after hard knock, today, Pat is still at the coalface for change. This defiant Kuku Yalanji woman is not kidding when she says, " I'm going out with my gloves on".
Rates:
$99 - small community organisations and screenings of less than 50 people
$250 - screenings up to 100 people
$500 - screenings up to 200 people
$750 - large screenings with more than 200 people
Please note that all revenue goes directly to the producers of this film.
This film is 52 minutes long.
Once your request has been submitted, you will be put in contact with the film’s distributor, who will process your request. You will be able to discuss any additional requirements with them, before being emailed an invoice and viewing link to watch the film.
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