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Richard Frankland was born on 16 December, 1963 in Victoria, Australia, is an Indigenous Australian playwright and musician. Discover Richard Frankland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 16 December, 1963
Birthday 16 December
Birthplace Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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Richard Joseph Frankland is an Australian playwright, scriptwriter and musician.

He is an Aboriginal Australian of Gunditjmara origin from Victoria.

He has worked significantly for the Aboriginal Australian cause.

Richard J. Frankland was born in Melbourne, but grew up mainly on the coast in south-west Victoria.

Frankland has worked as a soldier, a fisherman, and as a field officer to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

This experience inspired him to write several plays, including No Way to Forget, Who Killed Malcolm Smith and Conversations with the Dead.

Frankland won an AFI Award for Best Screenplay in a Short for his short film No Way to Forget.

It was the first film by an Indigenous director to win an AFI Award.

It was broadcast nationally on SBS TV.

1990

He formed The Charcoal Club in 1990, with a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous members.

1992

In 1992 his first band Djaambi supported Prince on his Australian tour.

1996

It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un Certain Regard.

He wrote and directed Harry's War, a feature film based on his uncle's role in World War II on the Kokoda Trail.

The film was screened at the British War Memorial in London and won Best Short Film at Spike Lee's alternative Oscars for black film-makers in Hollywood.

2002

They released three albums on CD: The Charcoal Club (2002), Cry Freedom (2005) and Hearts Full of Rust (2010).

A Facebook page for them is still active.

In the early nineties he founded Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation (MNAC) which was the first Indigenous statewide land organisation in some twenty five years.

MNAC was responsible for representing traditional owners and lodging all native title claims throughout the state of Victoria (excepting the already lodged Yorta Yorta, claim but including the recently successful Gunditjmara claim).

Richard was also instrumental in forming Defenders of Native Title (DONT), which later became Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR).

2004

In 2004, his play, Conversations with the Dead, was performed at the United Nations.

Frankland is also a musician, whose music features on the soundtracks to many of his films.

In 2004, he helped form the Your Voice political party, after the abolition of ATSIC, saying,

"It's time that we as Indigenous Australians put the onus of equity back on non-Indigenous Australians and ask them straight out, 'Is this a racist society? Would you like to see Indigenous Australians in the halls of Parliament? Do you believe in an equitable voice in this society? With the abolition of ATSIC, Aboriginal people now have no voice. We have no point of political dialogue."

- Richard Frankland

Frankland served as Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne, and is an Associate Professor in Cross-Disciplinary Practice in the Division of Fine Arts and Music at the Victorian College of the Arts.

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