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Women of the Sun

Women of the Sun

★ 7.0/10•1982•PG•Drama
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Follows the lives and struggles of four generations Australian Aboriginal women from the 1820s to the 1980s.

Sonia Borg · Writer

Hyllus Maris · Writer

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 5, 1982

Episodes

Episode 1 - Alinta the Flame - the 1820sE158m

Alinta the Flame - the 1820s

The lives of the Nyari people are completely disrupted when two convicts are washed up on the beach of their tribal lands.

Jul 5, 1982

Episode 2 - Maydina the Shadow - the 1890sE258m

Maydina the Shadow - the 1890s

Maydina and Biri escape from the seal hunters who enslaved them. Their intent is to escape back to their traditional lands, but they quickly learn that these lands have been settled and their people have now scattered.

Jul 12, 1982

Episode 3 - Nerida Anderson, 1939E358m

Nerida Anderson, 1939

Nerida is a young, educated indigenous woman who returns to the government mission where her family lives, after spending several years in the city. She is shocked by the conditions and attempts to motivate her people to improve them.

Jul 19, 1982

Episode 4 - Lo-Arna, 1981E458m

Lo-Arna, 1981

Ann Cutler is the 18-year-old adopted daughter of middle-class parents in an Australian country town. She has been told that she is French-Polynesian and that there is no record of her birth parents beyond knowledge of their nationality. The truth is that she is born of her adoptive father, Doug Cutler, and an Aboriginal woman called Alice Wilson, who lives locally.

Jul 26, 1982

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