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. Welcome 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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