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Films
4 Films
Keywords
“Land Rights”
x
Directors
“MacDougall, David”
x
Status
“A”
x
Region
Australia
4
Country
Australia
4
Keywords
Animals
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Herding
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Land Rights
4
x
Resistance
1
Social Conflict
1
Social Organisation
1
Directors
MacDougall, David
4
x
MacDougall, Judith
2
Series
not set
4
Country of production
Australia
4
Year of production
1978
1
1980
2
1982
1
Status
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
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