Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)

Directed by

Alec Morgan, Gerald Bostock

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

52 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It focuses on the Aboriginal Protection Board's control over Aboriginal people in the 1930s and the forced labor of children.

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What happens

Lousy Little Sixpence is a 1983 Australian documentary film about Australian history that details the early years of the Stolen Generations and the struggle of Aboriginal Australians against the Aboriginal Protection Board in the 1930s. The film's title references the amount of pocket money that Aboriginal children were to be paid for their forced labour, although few ever received it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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