The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
1986, English. Directed by Alan Lowery.
The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written history has long applied selectivity to what it records, largely ignoring the shameful way that the Aborigines were, and continue to be, treated. Because Aborigines had not cultivated the land they were seen by British colonists as having no proprietorial rights to the land. They had no treaty and therefore no rights under British colonial rule. Little of their resistance is recorded.
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- 1 January 1986
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- United Kingdom, Australia
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- John Pilger
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Who directed The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back?
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1986) was directed by Alan Lowery and stars John Pilger.