🎬 Documentary

Couldn't Be Fairer

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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.

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Year
1984
Runtime
50m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Dennis O'Rourke 👤 Mick Miller 👤 Joh Bjelke-Petersen
british colonial

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Couldn't Be Fairer has a runtime of 50m ( and 50 minutes).
Couldn't Be Fairer was directed by Dennis O'Rourke and released in 1984.
Couldn't Be Fairer is a Documentary film (1984).
The cast of Couldn't Be Fairer includes Mick Miller, Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

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