Fwd: First Australians

[Eugenie Collyer]

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> The landmark documentary series First Australians tells a very  
> different story of our nation. By Sacha Molitorisz.
> ''BEFORE the Dreaming, the Australian continent was a flat,  
> featureless place, devoid of life," says a woman's ethereal voice,  
> over shots of red desert and rugged coastline. "Then giant beings  
> came down from the sky, came from across the sea and emerged from  
> within the Earth. With their arrival the Dreaming began and life  
> was born... (and) in everything they touched they left their  
> essence, making the lands sacred to those who honour the Dreaming -  
> the first Australians."
> So begins one of the most significant documentary series in the  
> history of Australian television. For the first time, the story of  
> Aboriginal Australia has been condensed into a coherent narrative  
> that begins with the mythological birth of humanity on this  
> continent - the Dreaming that historian Inga Clendinnen calls "that  
> web of stories which holds this great recalcitrant continent within  
> the net of human intelligence" - and ends in the aftermath of Eddie  
> Mabo's landmark native title victory. In seven episodes, it's a  
> series that explores, in the words of award-winning filmmaker  
> Rachel Perkins, what happens when the oldest living culture in the  
> world is overrun by the world's greatest empire....
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/the-story-of- 
> black-australia/2008/10/08/1223145363254.html

Eugenie Collyer
Town Linguist
Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation
(Katherine Regional Aboriginal Language Centre)
PO Box 871, Katherine 0851
Ph: (08) 89711233
Fax: (08) 8971 0561



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