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16 MARCH 2012
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Babakiueria: the colonialisation of European Australians by Indigenous Australians

"Presenter Duranga Manika (Michelle Torres) describes her fascination with white people and their customs and explains how she spent six months living with a 'typical white family' (Tony Barry, Cecily Polson, Kelan Angel, Margeurita Haynes). She also asks members of the general public for their opinions on white people and speaks to the Minister for White Affairs (Bob Maza).

[Geoffrey] Atherden's script takes stereotypes of Australian culture and, with tongue-in-cheek humour, views them as though for the first time, as mysterious, alien and strange. Here, the barbecue is singled out. Elsewhere Manika describes the football match as ritualised violence and betting at the TAB as a religion, while a police commissioner calls the Anzac Day March a ritual where white people 'honour their warrior ancestors' but wonders why it can't be done at home.

Presenter Duranga Manika's ethnographic study of white people simplifies, patronises and mystifies her subjects. Every mundane detail of this one family's everyday life is invested with serious cultural significance. Bob Maza's Minister for White Affairs compresses a history of government treatment of Indigenous Australians into one self-satisfied, authoritative figure. It is interesting that while these characters treat 'white' culture with such fascination, they treat 'black' culture as such a given that the audience does not find out much about it."

(Kate Matthews, Australian Screen)

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1788 • 1986 • Aboriginal • alien and strange • ANZAC • ANZAC Day • ASO • audio and visual heritage • audiovisual archive • Australia • Australian culture • Australian Screen • authoritative figure • Babakiueria • barbecue • Barbecue area • BBQ • belonging • black culture • Bob Maz • Bob Maza • Cecily Polson • colonial misrecognition • colonisation • cultural critique • cultural perspective • cultural significance • culture and customs • ethics • ethnographic study • ethnography • Euro-Australians • European Australians • fictitious land • First Australians • flag • football • for their own good • gambling • Geoffrey Atherden • government treatment • humour • Indigenous • Indigenous Australians • indigenous peoples • invasion • Kelan Angel • Margeurita Haynes • Michelle Torres • Minister for White Affairs • mockumentary • National Film and Sound Archive • native people • NFSA • patronising • postcolonial • powerboat • racial inequality • racial profiling • religion • ritual • ritualised violence • role-reversal • satire • satirical • settlement • stereotype • TAB • tongue-in-cheek • Tony Barry • typical white family • untamed land • white culture • white people • white settlement

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Simon Perkins
10 OCTOBER 2009
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First Australians: the birth of contemporary Australia

"First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world’s greatest empire. Oven seven episodes, First Australians depicts the true stories of individuals – both black and white – caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia’s most transformative period of history."

(Queensland Art Gallery)

1). Production image for First Australians 2008 | Director: Beck Cole, Rachel Perkins| Image courtesy: Blackfella Films

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Aboriginal • Australia • First Australians • history • Mabo • reconciliation • settlement • Sorry Day • Terra Nullius • white settlement

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Simon Perkins
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