ABC TV
Inside Story
Welcome To Australia
Tuesday September 28, 8:30pm
Award-winning film-maker John Pilger returns home to Australia to witness
the elaborate preparations for the 2000 Olympic Games and the surge in
national pride as the country promotes itself as a confident new nation
facing the millennium. However, in Pilger's view, these activities are
overshadowing a real hidden world where Aborigines continue to live in
Third World conditions. Welcom To Australia screens on ABC TV on Tuesday
September 28 at 8:30pm.
Some of the greatest sportsmen and women in the world were Aboriginal - yet
many of them were denied a place in Australia's Olympic teams. Pilger
discovers that the Australian Government is overturning a landmark
legislation of 1992 which recognised that Aborigines actually existed as
people with common law rights, before the English colonised the country.
In 1992, the Australian High Court finally recognised `native title' over
certain - mostly unused - Crown land. The court went to considerable
lengths to ensure most white Australians were not affected by the
judgement. The new legislation meant that Aborigines, if they could prove
they had maintained a traditional association with the land, could finally
claim land rights.
However, Pilger says that behind this facade is the shocking reality of
Aboriginal Australia - not only its betrayal over land rights, but its
continuing Third World status within a First World Country.
A Carlton Production. Written and presented by John Pilger. Produced by
Alan Lowery.
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