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 First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race
(2008, 55 min.) AUSTRALIA
Director: Beck Cole (Luritja/Warrumunga)
Produced by: Blackfella Films and SBS
This production is part of the acclaimed broadcast series First Australians, written and directed by Aboriginal filmmakers, that chronicles the experience of the country’s Aboriginal people from first contact by Europeans to the present. This episode tells the story of the mass political movement that helped win indigenous Australians national citizenship rights in 1967, ending a long history of 'protective legislation' controlling their residency, wages, residency, ability to marry and travel.
Image credit: First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race; Sir Doug Nicholls—pastor, social worker, and first indigenous governor of South Australia—preaching in Fitzroy, Victoria. Photo courtesy of Fairfax Pictures. |
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