television documentary made by Blackfella Films for ABC Television, which tells the story of the people of Maralinga, South Australia, since the 1950s British nuclear tests at Maralinga. It was deliberately broadcast around the same time that the drama series Operation Buffalo was on, to give voice to the Indigenous people of the area and show how it disrupted their lives. Screenhub gave it 4.5 stars, calling it an "excellent documentary". The film shows the resilience of the Maralinga Tjarutja people, and how they have continued to fight for their rights to look after the contaminated land. In 2020 Behrendt worked as a writer for Season 2 of Total Control (TV series), and as writer/director on a documentary film entitled The Fight Together. In 2021 Behrendt released the documentary Araatika: Rise Up!. Radio 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. Recognition In 1993, Behrendt was the winner of the Lionel Murphy Foundation Scholarship. In 2002, she was the co-recipient of the inaugural Neville Bonner National Teaching Award. 2002 David Unaipon Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for her fiction work Home. In 2004 she won the award for outstanding achievement in literature in the 2004 Deadlys. 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize – Best first novel (Asia/Pacific). In 2009, Behrendt was named National NAIDOC Person of the Year. 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for Indigenous Writing for Legacy. In 2011, she was named the NSW Australian of the Year. 2012 AFTRS's AW Myer Indigenous Award. 2018 Australian Directors Guild award for Best Direction of a Documentary Feature Film for After the Apology. In the 2020 Australia Day Honours, Behrendt was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO), for her "distinguished service to Indigenous education and research, the law and the visual and performing arts". In the 2021 Human Rights Awards (Australia), she won the Human Rights medal. Personal life Behrendt married US artist Kris Faller in 1997 while at Harvard. They separated amicably in 2001 and were later divorced. She had a long-term relationship with Geoff Scott, a senior Indigenous bureaucrat, former CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and current CEO of NSW Aboriginal Land Council. In 2009, Behrendt began a