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Rupert Maxwell Stuart Rupert Maxwell Stuart i(A70684 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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Max Stuart was an Aboriginal man accused of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in the South Australian coastal town of Ceduna in December 1958. He is the subject of the film by Craig Lahiff with a screenplay by Louis Nowra (qq.v.) which is based on K. S. Inglis's (q.v.) The Stuart Case, first published by Melbourne University Press in 1961 and republished by Black Inc., with an eighty-page epilogue, in 2002.

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