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Camels of the Pitjantjara 1969 45‘

Directed by Roger Sandall .

From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film shows, however, in the 1960s, the Pitjantjara were

Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Infrastructure / Transport Animals

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Stockman’s Strategy 1984 52‘

Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall .

A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a

Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Animals Education / Knowledge transmission

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Sunny and the Dark Horse 1986 86‘

Directed by David MacDougall Judith MacDougall .

A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his

Australia Rural Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Animals

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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