When screen legend Jack Thompson checked himself into Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital last year, he had no idea how sick he was.
Unbeknown to Jack, his kidneys had failed and he was 48 hours away from death.
Told that he would have to go on dialysis three times a week for five hours, he realised his acting career was in jeopardy.
The film he was about to shoot was set in remote Kakadu, 250 km away from the nearest dialysis unit in Darwin.
It looked like he would have to pull out of the movie — until a big purple truck came to the rescue, a gesture of friendship and respect from the Territory's Indigenous community.
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Show: Australian Story
Title: Back on Track
Season: 24
Episode: 1
Type: Documentary
Publisher: ABC
Size: 273M (285697653 B)
Files: 6F
Date: 02/19/2019
Airdate: 2019-02-18
Duration: 30 min 0 s
Source: Web
Encoding: x264
Bitrate: 1 100 kb/s
Audio Format: Advanced Audio Codec
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<b>Introduced by actor and director Simon Baker</b>When screen
legend Jack Thompson checked himself into Sydney's St
Vincent's Hospital last year, he had no idea how sick he
was.Unbeknown to Jack, his kidneys had failed and he was 48 hours
away from death.Told that he would have to go on dialysis three
times a week for five hours, he realised his acting career was in
jeopardy.The film he was about to shoot was set in remote
Kakadu, 250 km away from the nearest dialysis unit in
Darwin.It looked like he would have to pull out of the movie
until a big purple truck came to the rescue, a gesture of
friendship and respect from the Territory's Indigenous
