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Josephine Emery
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Born in Cairns, Nth Queensland, Josephine was originally christened, ‘John’. Her early life was spent on a coconut plantation west of Lae, in PNG. The family moved to a back-blocks farm in South Australia. ‘John’ attended boarding school in Adelaide, worked in gold-mining,... Read full bio →
Backroads
Phillip Noyce
1977
1h 1m
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away.
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