Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’ (opens in new tab)

The actor, who reunites with Warwick Thornton in his frontier western Wolfram, reflects on her late parents, the failed voice referendum and her obsession with spaceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDeborah Mailman sat in rusty red sand on Arrernte Country in Central Australia, and she felt her character’s deep grief. She was filming a scene in Warwick Thornton’s 1930s frontier western Wolfram, playing Pansy, an Indigenous woman whose children have been stolen from her. As her bundle...