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Tagged: assimilation

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Rabbit-Proof Fence: Peter Gabriel's score
This is probably the film’s most controversial scene, as well as the most harrowing, partly because it’s different to the way Doris Pilkington Garimara describes her abduction in the book. The book’s...
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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy: The outhouse
An old woman is pushed in a wheelchair by her Aboriginal daughter (Marcia Langton) along a trail lined with rocks. They come to a stop by an outside toilet. The Aboriginal woman waits. Summary by...
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First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race - Vote YES for Aborigines, Episode 6
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) has fought for the rights of Aboriginal people to be recognised in line with other civil rights movements...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The wrong fence
Mr Neville (Kenneth Branagh) tells the police inspector (Roy Billing) that the three escaped girls must be following the rabbit-proof fence north, to their home. He devises a plan to catch them,...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: Mr Neville says no
At the Moore River Aboriginal settlement, Molly (Everlyn Sampi) is called out of the assembly to be inspected by Mr AO Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the Protector of Aborigines. Mr Neville checks the...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The stealing of children
As Constable Riggs (Jason Clarke) arrives, Maude (Ningali Lawford) realises he has come to take the children. They run, but Riggs cuts off their escape route and seizes the children one by one. He...
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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy: A baby cries
A mother sits holding her daughter, cradling her on her lap. A soft light falls over them. Beyond the light is darkness. Then the woman, now older, lies on her back, her daughter in a foetal position...
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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy: Washing feet
A pair of frail, gnarled feet. The Aboriginal daughter (Marcia Langton) on her hands and knees, gently washes her white mother’s arthritic feet. The Aboriginal woman begins to remember another time,...
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Dreaming in Motion - Black Talk: Every goodbye ain’t gone
Tim (Rhimi Johnson Page) and Leesa (Tameka Ingram) embrace at a bus stop. Tim boards the bus while his two cousins watch on. Summary by Romaine Moreton
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Dreaming in Motion - Black Talk: Boodgie
The two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) are sitting on a bench and catching up after having not seen each other for quite a while. Tim begins to tell the story of when his...
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