"Isn't it important to know that you have nothing to feel gulity about?"
Anita Selby is a nun brought to Wentworth after her arrest at a nuclear disarmament rally, and is promptly assaulted by Frank Burke, though the sight of her crucifix under her blouse gives him a moment's pause (526). She shares cell with Lou Kelly who is constantly trying to undermine her "holier-than-thou" surface, but unfortunately her sanctimoniousness usually wins out. Her struggles with her conscience and sexuality are supposedly the "point" of her character, but her main function is to lag on Myra Desmond's framing of Joan Ferguson for an assault on Lou and allow Joan to live another day. When Selby tells Ann that Joan is in fact innocent it causes a massive rift for the staff. She visits Joan in hospital (536) to effect Joan's transformation into a creature with finer feelings. Anita is last seen talking with Joan after being released from Wentworth and telling her that she had to tell the truth to the governor. Selby hands Joan a book which of course is Saint Dismas, the "Good Thief" on the cross with Jesus, and tells her if and when she goes back to Wentworth to try and forgive them, before saying goodbye and never being seen again.
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- Diane Craig also played Jackie Nolan / Sarah Forrest in episode 149 - 159.