Justine Saunders

Justine Florence Saunders (20 February 1953 – 15 April 2007) was an Australian stage, television and film actress.

She was a member of the Woppaburra, an Australian Aboriginal people, from the Kanomie clan of Great Keppel Island in Queensland.

[1] Saunders having started her career in theatre, made her screen debut in the television serial Rush in 1974, but first came to prominence as a cast member of soap opera Number 96 in 1976, as Rhonda Jackson.

Other television credits include: Skyways, Women of the Sun (1981), Farscape, Blue Heelers, and MDA.

[1] In 2000, through the indigenous Senator Aden Ridgeway, she returned the medal in protest at the emotional turmoil her mother was suffering over the Howard government's denial of the term "stolen generation".