Richard Frankland

[1] Frankland worked as a soldier, a fisherman, and as a field officer to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC),[1] which ran from 1987 until its final report was issued in 1991.

[2] His experience with RCIADIC inspired him to write several plays, including No Way to Forget, Who Killed Malcolm Smith, and Conversations with the Dead.

[4] It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un Certain Regard,[5][6] and was broadcast nationally in Australia on SBS TV.

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

[13] In the early nineties he founded Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation (MNAC) which was the first Indigenous statewide land organisation in some 25 years.