Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:O'Rourke and Associates Filmakers Pty. Ltd., BBC
Cast & Crew
M
Mick Miller
as Himself
J
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
as Self
Couldn't Be Fairer
50 minDocumentary
Plot
Reveals how Australia's first people are still suffering from social oppression, with many living on reservations where alcoholism is rampant and unemployment the major occupation. Aboriginal land rights are a central theme: Miller clearly demonstrates the contrast between the attitudes of European Australians, who see the land only as a resource to be mined, farmed, grazed and built upon, and Aboriginal Australians, who regard the land as sacred. Archival footage compares the original lifestyle of Aboriginal Australians to their current pitiful condition, and shows how European settlers attempted to "civilise" mixed blood children by taking them away from their parents and enrolling them in boarding schools.
