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The great unknown (1984)
As the navigators gaze on the arid coastline of this great south land, they dream about what might be beyond the forbidding cliffs. Was there a great inland sea, or a passage for ships to travel through, or was there ... [read more]
Fiction of terra nullius (1997)
Peter Yu of the Yawuru and Bunuba, Kimberley Land Council, talks about Indigenous relationship to land and the High Court decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1. Paul Keating stresses the chance to ... [read more]
Making a canoe and hunting a turtle (1948)
Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. On the beach it’s time to play out one of the dramas of daily life – the return of the hunters. [read more]
‘Watcha gunna do with it?’ (c1988)
Vera (Margaret Ford) explains why she and her son George (Bill McCluskey) are living on the children’s land and how she has saved the trees from being cut down by loggers. [read more]
Yaks in Tibet (1986)
Tibetan graziers move their families and yaks 30 to 40 kilometres for fresh feeding lands. They pay no taxes but support the local school teacher. [read more]
The building of a dream (1954)
Once the site for the oil refinery has been identified, the work begins. The land is surveyed, grass is burned off and the land is cleared. Meanwhile, ‘the dream comes true in miniature’ as a model layout of the refinery ... [read more]
Learning from international experience (1999)
In the seventh session, the Reconciliation Learning Circle group discusses land rights. In separate interviews, members express their views on the issues raised in the group as well as their opinions of other group members. [read more]
Everything has a cycle (2004)
Tom E Lewis introduces the concept of five seasons over footage of an overflowing Rose River – the land inundated with water, followed by a montage of a dry riverbed. Lewis describes the wet season over images of Indigenous men ... [read more]
‘Let’s get the bastard pegged’ (1983)
Sapphire miners Johnny (Harry Hopkins) and Mike (Colin Friels) peg a new claim, but newcomer Andy (Dennis Miller) disputes their right to the land. He uses his bulldozer to underline the point. [read more]
‘Some bush of their own’ (1982)
On the trail of 'wild blacks’ who have speared cattle, the stockmen and Mrs Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor) discuss the question of prior right to the land. An elderly Aboriginal man, Goggle Eye (Donald Blitner) explains where the stars came ... [read more]
Law stick (1997)
John Howard responds to the High Court’s decision on the native title of the Wik and Thayorre peoples in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 141 ALR 129. News footage shows a summit held by Aboriginal Land Councils. ... [read more]
A town is dying (1982)
A lingering and lyrical moment of a town in decay where the real tragedy is the complete lack of a future on the land for Coonamble’s young people. [read more]
George Wallace’s big break (1999)
Actor George Wallace gets his first job with Happy Harry Salmon’s travelling show. Theatre historian Frank Van Straten comments on Wallace. [read more]
Kings saved by Ransom (1950)
The King family is about to turn back, defeated by dry waterholes, when they meet a government patrol officer. Ransom (Michael Pate) tells them where to find water. He and Wally (Chips Rafferty) then discuss the King family’s new land ... [read more]
Looking for Warri and Yatungka (1997)
The Gibson desert. A voice-over tells us of the plight of Warri and Yatungka, two Mandildjara people who broke tribal marriage laws, and fled into the desert. To the outsider, the narrator tells us, this land would mean certain death. [read more]
Homecoming (1997)
Two men sit by a waterhole. Mandildjara people are picking fruit from trees, and digging in the earth for food. A man cracks something three times, then tosses a dead goanna onto the soil. The narrator tells us that it ... [read more]
Clearing methods invited bushfire (1955)
The clip shows how the process of regular and repeated burning and clearing in the Snowy Mountains had caused a series of disastrous environmental events, leading inevitably to large tracts of unproductive land. [read more]
Firestick farming (1997)
The narrator tells us that, according to Mandildjara beliefs, an evil spirit lives beneath the lake and wanders it searching for Mandildjara people to devour. In sepia tones, there is a re-enacted sequence of Warri and Yatungka breaking tribal laws ... [read more]
Precious songs (2005)
The voice of Scotty Martin chants a song over the image of a sunrise and ancient rock paintings. Scotty introduces us to his wife, Maisie, and to the Wandjina – the spiritual guardians of the land. Scotty talks about inheriting ... [read more]
Founding of Western Australia (1992)
The first images in this clip come from the series Land Looking West. They illustrate how the founder of Western Australia, James Stirling, had a vision of the new colony as one run by British privileged aristocrats and landowners. John ... [read more]
