Richard Frankland

Richard Frankland is a Gunditjmara man, a storyteller, playwright, musician and filmmaker. Over his lifetime he has had many roles, including serving in the army and working with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He uses his art to give First Peoples a voice. He says with voice comes freedom and with freedom comes responsibility. He talks about his lifetime of making films and music, the discrimination he has experienced and seen, and the compounding trauma it causes First Peoples, which is often invisible to white people and systems because they don’t know about the true history of the nation and the result of that true history. Richard yarns about many more things in his submission, including the treaty process in Victoria, land rights, political work, the Convincing Ground massacre, cultural recognition and retaining traditional language.