Justine Saunders, Actress

• (1953) Born next to a railway track to her mother,  around Quilpie in Queensland
• (1974) She had become a professional actress
• (1976) Saunders first came to prominence in Number 96
• (1981) Mini-series enabled Aboriginal women to bring their stories to a national audience.
• (1987) She was awarded  as well as for the assistance she gave in the establishment of the Black Theatre and the setting up of the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust.
• (1991) She was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to the performing arts and to the National Aboriginal Theatre
• (2000) She gained wider national prominence
• (2004) Her last role was alongside Barry Otto in The Last Cab to Darwine
• (2007) Died from cancer at Hawkesbury District Hospital in Sydney.