Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The White-Seared Landscape : Walkabout as Iconic Australian Counterculture
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'Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, a 1971 Australian New Wave film, has ignited and continues to ignite a deep desire in its audience to ruminate and engage with Aboriginal political discourse. This seminal work emerged out of social unrest for the injustices performed on Aborigines at the time, and made a definitive mark on how Australian’s think about race relations, intercultural understanding, and the place of empathy and thoughtfulness in a shifting and vibrant political landscape. Through the film, Roeg highlights the importance of sacred land and cultural heritage to the Aboriginal people, and the obligation white Australia has to respect and appreciate such a deep and fundamental component of the continent’s history.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon NEW : Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies vol. 2-3 no. 1 2016-2017 15296661 2016 periodical issue

    'This issue features some of the best work submitted by students enrolled in Aboriginal Political History: Ideas, Action and Agency at the University of Technology Sydney in 2016 and 2017.'  (Introduction)

    2016-2017
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  • Walkabout Edward Bond , 1971 single work film/TV
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