'An innovative film on the Borroloola people's struggle for the recognition of Aboriginal law. Aborigines actively collaborated with the filmmakers in determining the form of the film. Police Times is a dramatic re-enactment of white oppression in the 1930s. In Welfare Times, life under the welfare system in the 1950s is re-enacted. In struggle for Our Land, Aboriginal attachment to the land is described and the first hearing of the Borroloola land claim is also reenacted. Living With Two Laws is concerned with the movement back to traditional land and the setting up of cattle stations.'
Source: Trove.
'The film was made by the community of Borroloola in the Gulf country of the far north of Australia with the technical assistance of two white filmmakers. The film is a reflection on the Borroloola people's history of massacre, dispossession and institutionalisation, and as such serves them as a basis for action in the present and future. Part 1 involves the re-enactment of a singularly potent historical incident from 1933 when a police constable rounded up over thirty Aboriginal people and chained and beat them on a two month march to Borroloola'.
Source: Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative Ltd Independent Film and Video Reference Book 1983.
