Logie Hall of Fame inductee Noni Hazlehurst thinks Waleed Aly's Gold Logie acceptance speech has marked a turning point for Australian TV.
Both Hazlehurst and Aly called for more diversity on Australian TV as they accepted their awards in Melbourne on Sunday night.
During his speech, The Project host mentioned one actor in particular who changed his name from Mustafa in order to get TV work without prejudice.
Hazlehurst was seen nodding along in agreement as Aly spoke at the awards ceremony.
She said Aly had made such a "powerful contribution to discourse in Australia and to changing people's minds".
"I have the utmost respect for him and I think it's a real turning point, and as I said last night I look forward to the day where it doesn't matter who wins it's just the best and I think he's a wonderful exemplar of that," the veteran actress said on The Project on Monday.
Hazlehurst's list of TV credits include Division 4, The Sullivans, The Shiralee, City Homicide and even Playschool on which she was a presenter from the late 1970s until 2002.
The actress, who is currently starring in A Place To Call Home, commented on how her long career brought her some regrets when it came to her two sons.
"I feel regretful that they grow up so quickly," she said.
Her regrets, she explained, weren't over time spent with her boys but over how they had spent their time together.
"You think they'll never grow up but they do, and you realise that there were so many things you wish you'd done. Not so much time spent but just things done with them, places you'd go to," she said.
Hazlehurst feels so strongly about it that she's been able to tap into that emotion in her work as an actress.
"I always use that regret as my trigger for grief if I have to cry and the story isn't emotive enough to get me there, that's what I think about," she said.
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