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On sacred ground

Discusses the controversial question of Aboriginal land rights. Deals with the arguments to preserve sacred sites versus the Australian government's agreements with mining companies. Concentrates on the situation at the Noonkanbah Station in Western Australia.

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  • "Discusses the controversial question of Aboriginal land rights. Deals with the arguments to preserve sacred sites versus the Australian government's agreements with mining companies. Concentrates on the situation at the Noonkanbah Station in Western Australia."@en
  • "The Noonkanbah crisis had its beginnings when tribal people walked off Noonkanbah pastoral property and lived in deplorable fringe-camp conditions at Fitzroy Crossing. Later they returned as owners of Noonkanbah, to live and work on the property. The success of their new life and their two-year struggle to preserve their sacred sites from desecration by mining companies is a feature."@en
  • ""On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s. Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council, the film gives an Indigenous view of the area's history from the early days of European colonisation. It explores the problems of Aboriginal dispossession and loss of identity and the efforts that have been made towards self-determination, economic self-sufficiency and maintaining language and culture. It helps explain Aboriginal ties to the land, the importance of sacred sites and the reasons for the land rights struggle. Begun in the late 1970s, the film's original intention was to observe the development of Regional Aboriginal Lands Council. These Aboriginal organisations were being created around the nation following the successful implementation of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Lands Rights Act (1976) initiated by the Whitlam government and implemented by the Fraser government. This bi-partisan step forward allowed the gradual return of traditional lands to Aboriginal communities. The Land Councils identified feasible claims and negotiated terms for their resolution. However, unknown to the filmmakers and to the Kimberley Land Council, this north-western region was about to become the centre of a major national and international crisis around the rights of traditional owners to defend their land claims against multinational mining corporations and governments. Courageously, the filmmakers hung in and documented the negotiations. Essentially Noonkanbah was a conflict between ways of seeing and using land - Aboriginal law and religion versus the European notion of property law and exploitation of resources. This film, (along with Takeover, David and Judith MacDougall, AIATSIS, 1980) is an essential document in the history of Australian race relations during this period."--Website."@en
  • ""On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s. Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council, the film gives an Indigenous view of the area's history from the early days of European colonisation."--Container slip."
  • "Discusses the controversial question of aboriginal land rights. Deals with the arguments to preserve sacred sites versus the Australian government's agreements with mining companies. Concentrates on the situation at the Noonkanbah Station in Western Australia."@en
  • "On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s. Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council, the film gives an Indigenous view of the area's history from the early days of European colonisation. It explores the problems of Aboriginal dispossession and loss of identity and the efforts that have been made towards self-determination, economic self-sufficiency and maintaining language and culture. It helps explain Aboriginal ties to the land, the importance of sacred sites and the reasons for the land rights struggle."
  • ""On Sacred Ground looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s.Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council, the film gives an Indigenous view of the area's history from the early days of European colonisation. It explores the problems of Aboriginal dispossession and loss of identity and the efforts that have been made towards self-determination, economic self-sufficiency and maintaining language and culture. It helps explain Aboriginal ties to the land, the importance of sacred sites and the reasons for the land rights struggle --Container."@en
  • "Looks at the story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s. Presented by a young spokesman for the Kimberley Land Council, the film gives an Indigenous view of the area's history from the early days of European colonisation. It explores the problems of Aboriginal dispossession and loss of identity and the efforts that have been made towards self-determination, economic self-sufficiency and maintaining language and culture. It helps explain Aboriginal ties to the land, the importance of sacred sites and the reasons for the land rights struggle."
  • "Set in western Australia, this film tells of the Aborigines' struggle to re-establish their traditional way of life after the desecration of their sacred sites by mining companies. We observe the aspirations and frustrations of the Aboriginal life, as we follow their tedious two-year effort to regain their self-respect and religion."
  • "The story behind the Noonkanbah dispute, the well publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1970s."

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