The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1985)

Directors

Alan Lowery

Cast

John Pilger

The story

A summary by the National Library of Australia describes the documentary as: [Revealing] the often hidden history of Aboriginal Australians from white settlement to the present. The central issue throughout the film is differing perspectives of the land and its uses, providing historical background to the present land rights movement and other areas of Aboriginal activism. Pilger concludes the documentary by stating that: “It seems to me that, until a committed policy of reconciliation, of real nationhood, is offered to the First Australians, those who came recently can never claim their own.”

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