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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Land Rights”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“Australia”
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films with a digital version
1
Region
Australia
5
Melanesia
1
Country
Australia
5
Solomon Islands
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Herding
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
5
Land Rights
6
x
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Political Activists
1
Public Figure
1
Resistance
1
Social Conflict
2
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Directors
Graham, Trevor
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
MacDougall, David
4
MacDougall, Judith
2
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Australia
6
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Year of production
1978
1
1980
2
1982
1
1997
1
2001
1
Film list
Familiar Places
1980
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Anthropologist Peter Sutton is taken by an Aboriginal family, the Naponans, to map hereditary clan country in northern Queensland where they hope to live one day. To the children it is all new; to an
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Since the Company Came
2001
52
‘
Directed by
Russel Hawkins
.
Set in the South Pacific, in a remote Solomon Islands village, ‘Since the Company Came’ is the story of a community coming to terms with social, cultural and ecological disintegration. When village
Melanesia
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Conflict
Socioeconomic conditions
Takeover
1980
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
On March 13, 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Resistance
Land Rights
Social Conflict
Three Horsemen
1982
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Bob Massey Pootchemunka has spent most of his life as a stockman and drover. Now over 75, his ambition is to see an all-Aboriginal cattle station operating at Ti-Tree on his traditional clan land.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Herding
Animals
Land Rights
To Get That Country
1978
70
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
An important historical film of events surrounding early meetings of the Northern Land Council in 1977, where uranium mining, land rights and Aboriginal leadership were the key issues.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Social Organisation