Indigenous film-maker and writer Rachel Perkins has been appointed to the board of Australia’s top arts, research and publishing agency for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture.
Perkins, an Arrernte woman from central Australia, founded Blackfella Films in 1992 to create Indigenous documentaries, films and television programmes. Its productions include the seven-part documentary series First Australians, the film Mabo and popular television drama Redfern Now.
She is among five new members of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, announced on 4 March by federal education minister Christopher Pyne. The other board members are business academic Donisha Duff, University of Queensland vice-chancellor of Indigenous education Cindy Shannon, lawyer Geoffrey Winters and Indigenous consultant Jodie Sizer.
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