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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: A Fair Deal for a Black Race - affected by the Maralinga nuc |
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First Australians
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A Fair Deal for a Black Race -
(South-Eastern Australia 1937-1967). A mass political movement helped
win constitutional rights in 1967, but it was built on successive,
strategic campaigns conducted by the first Australians from the 1930s.
Yorta Yorta man William Cooper forms the Australian Aborigines League
in 1933 to continue his life-long campaign for equality. His nephew
also becomes a political animal; Doug Nichols who becomes a champion
for those affected by the Maralinga nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s.
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Directed by Beck Cole. (Commissioned by SBS, in English) (Documentary
Series) CC
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Guess where they HIDE the worlds LARGEST weapon test area
first , kill off the locals , just like in afghanistan today
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Woomera-warning-sign.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_Prohibited_Area
The Woomera Prohibited Area has an area of 127,000 square kilometres
(49,000 sq mi)[1] and is the largest land-based defence and aerospace
range in the world [2]. It is roughly the size of England.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maralinga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga
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First Australians
Christine from Mooloolaba says:
I have been watching the series and have really appreciated getting to
understand the story of the First Australians. As a non-Indigenous
woman, there are many things that i never knew about white settlement
and the terrible mistreatment of the First Australians. I wish they
had of taught this at school as it is such a significant part of
Australia's history, one which ashamedly, has gone untold for too
long. I am sorry for what has happened.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 19:22 AEST
Amelia from Northcote says:
And Chris from Kangaroo Point, can you learn to spell "apostrophe"?
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 18:13 AEST
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Craig Allen from Forrest says:
I just spoke to a aboriginal friend for the first time since the
series began showing. He's inconsolably angry. What can I say to him?
He has every right to be, and I am too. This series is very very
confronting, and it's about bloody time we were confronted with the
realities on which our nation is founded. By the way, I looked up the
price for the DVD set because I thought that it would be worth having
it available at cultural heritage stalls that some of my Aboriginal
friends run at various shows and festivals in western Victoria. But it
costs $578!!! Who on earth is going to pay that! Everyone should watch
this series. By putting such a ridiculous price on it, SBS is
effectively preventing it from being widely distributed and watched.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 17:07 AEST
Ben Zipper from Richmond (3121) says:
A terribly important and well made documentary. Decision makers in
Education across Australia should be held to account if they fail to
make this compulaory viewing for all school children.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 16:54 AEST
Casey from Newcastle says:
Powerful series. After watching this I am left speechless and my soul
is empty. My only hope is that these programs are shown in schools all
over Australia, lets start teaching our children how to respect other
cultures.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 16:38 AEST
Tony from Potts Point says:
This is an extremely moving documentary series about the decimation of
a noble people. As an American temporarily living in Sydney I am
surprised and sorry to hear that this real history of the treatment of
Indigenous people was not taught in schools. It was a systematic
process of genocide that spanned generations, to deal with the
"Aboriginal Problem", just as the early American settlers had the
"problem" of the Indigenous people there getting angry as their land
and ultimately their culture was taken away from them too. Last
night's episode, showing the removal of "half-caste" (a deplorable
term) children from their full-blooded mothers was the most heart
wrenching thing I watched so far in the series. I have wept at some
point during every broadcast. Hopefully we can all learn a lesson
about what human dignity really means. I would like to congratulate
the creators of this series for opening our eyes. The First
Australians will never be forgotten and never go away. My respect is
given to the Australian government for apologizing ultimately to the
First Australians.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 16:11 AEST
Chris from Kangaroo Point says:
You really must fix the appostophe on the opening titles to this
episode Western Australia 1870's - terrible grammar!
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 16:04 AEST
Anna from Goonellabah says:
This series was a fantastic insight of how the Aborigines had to
endure through tough times. It helped me with one of my essays for
class and it was an excellent resource. The narration was powerfully
moving and having the historians describing key information was
excellent. Keep up with this fantastic work.
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 15:47 AEST
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Chris from Perth says:
Louise Sherwin-Stark from Balmain voiced something that I was thinking
last week (after the story of Barak and his people), when she said
"Forget Burke and Wills, we've got some new heroes." I wonder if this
is a way we can find the common ground we need? I don't know how
Indigenous Australians would feel about it (there's always the danger
of 'appropriation' similar to what has happened to Native American
culture), and white society needs to ask them, but if these heroes
could be seen as Australian Heroes rather than exclusively as
Indigenous Heroes, they would take their places alongside the other
heroes we hold up as examples, and our children would learn about
them, and be proud of them. It means that it becomes 'our' history
(meaning all Australians), rather than 'their' history (ie. nothing to
do with me, mate!). After all, Australians love an under-dog story,
and this is the mother-of-them-all!
submitted: 27 Oct 2008 15:16 AEST
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Sven from Brunswick says:
After seeing this, I believe no Aussie should ever again point a
finger at a German when it comes down to genocide. Before the US
joined WW2 in 1941, their foreign minister once said: The Germans
don't tell us what to do with our blacks, so we won't tell them what
to do with their jews. It seems to me the rest of the world was just
as ignorant and careless with Australia/ns and their "Abo problem".
This series should be a must at school. |
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