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"This year, we acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the
Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the site of the longest protest for Indigenous land
rights, sovereignty and self-determination in the world.
Now, a documentary made at the time of the Embassy’s establishment,
Ningla-A’Na (“hungry for our land”), has been restored and is being
re-released in Australian cinemas.
Gary Foley, one of the people who established the Embassy, calls it “the single
most important film on the Aboriginal political struggle in the last 50 years”.
Director Alessandro Cavadini was the only filmmaker who was able to get up
close and film intimate footage of the organisation and thinking behind the
establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The film also looks at the
Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service and the National Black
Theatre.
The documentary features some of our most militant political organisers well
known for their involvement in the Black Liberation movement, with footage of
Foley, Paul Coe, Roberta Sykes, Isabelle Coe, Bob Maza, Shirley Smith – more
fondly known as “Mum Shirl” – and many other significant Aboriginal voices from
the 1970s.
But watching the film 50 years on, it feels to me we are still having the same
conversations we did in the 1970s."
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
