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The Australian Wars is a new three-part TV series directed and produced by
Arrernte and Kalkadoon nations filmmaker Rachel Perkins.
Perkins travels across vast territory to capture key aspects of a war that
lasted more than 100 years, from the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 until
the 1920s.
The series traces some of the key phases, sites and underlying features of
frontier wars here on home soil.
It sets out to understand why the war was never declared, why the British
didn’t follow their own laws, and the tactics and strategies Aboriginal people
deployed defending their land and survival.
Perkins asks us to consider this difficult history, why there are only a
handful of monuments to this warfare, and how it should be memorialised.
To ask these questions, Perkins deploys stunningly shot re-enactments,
archives, artefacts, biography, expert evidence and uses place to great effect.
The series treats the viewer with the ability to critically reflect and ask why
we still struggle to come to terms with this history."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
