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Title Takeover.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, 87 min.) : digital, stereo, sound, color.
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Series AIATSIS Collection
AIATSIS Collection.
Credits Directed by David and Judith MacDougall.
Cast Francis Yunkaporta.
Event Originally produced by Ronin Films in 1979.
Summary One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government. The film presents an insiders view of events that followed an announcement made without warning on 13 March 1978 that the Queensland state government was taking over control of the Aboriginal community of Aurukun in the north of the State, displacing the Uniting Church which had managed the Aboriginal Reserve for 70 years. At the request of the community, filmmakers David and Judith MacDougall documented the events of the following weeks, as the community marshalled its supporters to resist the takeover, and a stream of lawyers, politicians, Church officials, government advisers and representatives of mainstream media arrived to talk with the Aboriginal Council and the community at large. Ostensibly driven by a desire to access the mineral wealth in the Aurukun area, the state government was resistant to modifying its position, but intervention from the Federal government forced a sequence of compromises, though not always with the communitys knowledge or to their satisfaction. The film is as much about the political betrayal of the communitys interests, as it is a record of the communitys aspirations to protect and nurture its traditional culture and relationship to Country.--Kanopy.
Original Version Originally produced Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, c1979.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Aurukun Mission.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.)
Aurukun (Qld. : Shire)
Added Author MacDougall, David.
MacDougall, Judith.
Yunkaporta, Francis.
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Music No. 1082975 Kanopy
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