ラリッサ・ベーレント

2025年7月現在ベーレントはUTSの著名な教授（2018年より）であり、ジャンブンナ先住民学習センターのローリエート・フェローでもある。彼女は先住民研究の初代議長であり、研究および学術プログラムのディレクター（2011年より）でもある。^{[ 12 ]}

ベーレントは、識字教育を含む先住民教育に関する問題に積極的に取り組んできた。2002年には、第1回ネビル・ボナー全国教育賞を共同受賞した。^{[ 17 ]}シドニーのグリーブにあるトランビー・アボリジナル・カレッジの理事を務め、少なくとも2012年からはセント・アンドリュース大聖堂学校のガウラ・キャンパス（先住民の小学校）の大使を務めている。^{[ 18 ] [ 19 ]} 2012年には、レッドファーンで識字プログラムを設立したシドニー・ストーリー・ファクトリーの創設者の一人でもある。^{[ 20 ] [ 6 ]}

In April 2011, Behrendt was appointed to chair the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for the federal government. The Review, tasked with providing a roadmap for Indigenous university education, delivered its report in September 2012 and received a widely positive response for its emphasis on achievable parity targets and the re-allocation of existing resources to support meaningful outcomes such as "fostering a 'professional class' of Indigenous graduates".^[21] In releasing the report on 14 September 2012, Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, accepted all of its recommendations.^[22]

From 2009 to 2012, she co-chaired the City of Sydney's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Panel.^[23]

Behrendt has played an active role in creating and supporting arts organisations and initiatives and is a consistent advocate of increased funding for the arts.^[24] She was the inaugural chair of National Indigenous Television (NITV), the first broadcast television network in Australia dedicated to Indigenous programming,^[25] from 2006 to 2009.^[6]

In 2008, she was appointed to the board of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and was chair from 2010^[26] to 2014.^[6] She was appointed to the board of Museums and Galleries NSW in 2012.^[27][6]

Behrendt has served on the board of the Sydney Writers' Festival^[28] since 2015, the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, chairing their Indigenous Advisory Panel^[29] (2007–2012).^[6]

She was a board member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG) from 2013 to 2014, was a judge of non-fiction on the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (2013–2014) and has been a member of the Australia Council Major Performing Arts Panel since 2015.^[6]

Behrendt has written extensively on legal and Indigenous social justice issues. Her books include Aboriginal Dispute Resolution (1995)^[30] and Achieving Social Justice (2003).^[31] In 2005 she co-authored the book Treaty.^[32]

Behrendt has also written three works of fiction, including a novel, Home,^[33] which won the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the David Unaipon Award in 2002 as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel in the south-east Asian/South Pacific region in 2005. Her second novel, Legacy,^[34] won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Prize for Indigenous Writing (2010).^[6] Her third novel, After Story, was published in 2021.

In 2012, Behrendt published Indigenous Australia For Dummies.^[35]

On 1 July 2025^[36] she was appointed the chair of the Writing Australia Council.^[1] Writing Australia is part of Creative Australia, and is responsible for supporting and promoting the Australian literature.^[36][37]

Behrendt has written, directed, and/or produced a number of documentary films since 2013, including Innocence Betrayed (2013, writer) In My Blood It Runs (2019, producer) and Maralinga Tjarutja (2020, writer), the latter about the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in South Australia.^[38] She was Indigenous consultant for the TV documentary miniseriesAustralia: The Story of Us in 2015, Who do you think you are? (2018–2019) and other projects.^[6]

2016年、ベーレント（監督）とミカエラ・パースキー（脚本家兼プロデューサー）は、スクリーン・オーストラリアとKOJOと共同でアデレード映画祭から先住民長編ドキュメンタリー・イニシアチブの資金援助を受け、長編ドキュメンタリー・プロジェクト「After the Apology」に取り組みました。^{[ 39 ] [ 40 ]}そして2017年10月9日、AFFは完成した映画の世界初上映を行いました。^{[ 41 ]}この映画は、ケビン・ラッドがオーストラリアの先住民に謝罪した後の数年間に増加した先住民の子供の引き離しについて考察しています。^{[ 42 ]} 2018年にオーストラリア監督協会からドキュメンタリー長編映画の最優秀監督賞を受賞し、2018年のAACTA賞ではノンフィクション・テレビ部門の最優秀監督賞を含む3部門にノミネートされました。^{[ 43 ] [ 44 ]}

ベーレントは、ブラックフェラ・フィルムズがABCテレビ向けに制作した2020年5月のテレビドキュメンタリー『マラリンガ・ジャルチャ』 [ ^{45 ]を}監督した。この作品は、 1950年代のイギリスによるマラリンガでの核実験以来の南オーストラリア州マラリンガの人々の物語を描いている。ドラマシリーズ『オペレーション・バッファロー』の放送とほぼ同時期に意図的に放送されたのは、この地域の先住民の声を届け、核実験が彼らの生活をいかに混乱させたかを示すためだった。^{[ 46 ] [ 47 ]} Screenhubは4.5つ星を与え、「優れたドキュメンタリー」と評した。^{[ 48 ]}この映画は、マラリンガ・ジャルチャの人々の回復力^{[ 49 ]}と、汚染された土地を守る権利のために彼らがどのように闘い続けてきたかを示している。^{[ 50 ]}この映画は、2020年のAACTA賞ノンフィクションテレビ部門最優秀監督賞を受賞した。^{[ 51 ]}

2020年、ベーレントはテレビシリーズ「トータル・コントロール」シーズン2の脚本家として、^{[ 6 ]}またドキュメンタリー映画「ザ・ファイト・トゥギャザー」の脚本家兼監督として活動した。^{[ 38 ]}

Behrendt directed Araatika: Rise Up!, a documentary about a group of National Rugby League players creating an Aboriginal Australian equivalent of the New Zealand Māoris' haka. Luke Buckmaster gave it 3 out of 5 stars in his review in The Guardian, describing Behrendt's directorial style as "that of a cine-essayist, talented at fishing through and arranging evidence, particularly when it comes to political and cultural context". Araatika: Rise Up! streamed at the Sydney Film Festival in 2021, and aired on NITV in 2022.^[52]

Behrendt directed a feature documentary One Mind, One Heart, produced by Michaela Perske, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2024. The film follows the story of the 1963 Yirrkala bark petitions created by Yolgnu people at the Yirrkala mission, two of which were presented to the Australian Parliament in 1963. These petitions, the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law, were landmarks in the campaign to preserve culture and maintain Aboriginal land rights.^[53] The film was also screened on NITV, SBS Television, and SBS On Demand (where it is still available as of December 2025^[54]) on 19 January 2025,^[55] and at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival in February 2025,^[56]

Behrendt presents radio programme Speaking Out, covering "politics, arts and culture from a range of Indigenous perspectives". It broadcasts on ABC Radio National on Fridays at 12pm (noon) and on ABC Local Radio on Sundays at 9pm.^[57]