Couldn't Be Fairer
Couldn't Be Fairer

Couldn't Be Fairer

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1984
0h 50m
Documentary

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.

Production

O'Rourke and Associates Filmakers Pty. Ltd., BBC

Cast

Mick Miller

Mick Miller

Himself

Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Self

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