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Depicts the problems of alcoholism, racial violence and political oppression that Queensland Aboriginal people have to confront and overcome in their efforts to gain land rights and a standard of living...
In 1978 Narritjin Maymuru and his son Banapana were awarded fellowships as visiting artists at the Australian National University in Canberra. The film shows them and their families at work in their...
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on the Cape York Peninsula of north-eastern Australia. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today...
Narritjin Maymuru talks about his ancestral lands at Djarrakpi, one of the most important sacred sites of his Manggalili clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnham Land. Narritjin explains the meanings...
Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakip, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia. Narritjin is...
About the preparations and organisational difficulties of the final and most involved stage of the sequence of mortuary rites practised by the Anbarra group of Australian aborigines. The conduct of each part...
The way of coping with death in north east Arnhem Land is through rites of clan, religion and land. The funeral is for a young child at an aboriginal clan homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. At...
On 13 March 1978 the Queensland government announced its intention to take over management of the Aurukan Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing that...
In 1803 when the British arrived to establish a penal colony there were some 4000 aborigines on the island of Tasmania. By 1876, after a few decades of systematic persecution and atrocity, they had been...
An account of the Australian Northern Land Council’s inaugural meeting in January 1977. At the same time the council met traditional owners of the Alligator Rivers region in the Northern Territory to...
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