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| home | news lLondoners to see black films lift lid on white Australia13 July 1998 - ENIAR media release - Londoners can this week get a rare insight into the turbulent world of Australian race relations, when the capital plays host to blackfella/whitestate, a free showcase of contemporary Aboriginal film and poetry.
"When the Australian tourist boards put holiday adverts up on the tube, they always present Londoners with images of racial harmony," said organiser Sue Mathieson. "But blackfella/whitestate shows that there is another side to the story." "These are films and poems by contemporary indigenous artists which look at how colonization has effected, and continues to effect, indigenous people. They also ask how discrimination might be overcome and how Australia as a whole could move towards reconciliation."
The showcase has been given extra relevance by recent developments in Australia. Last month, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party went into the Queensland election on an anti-Aboriginal platform and came out with over 20% of the vote. Last week, the Prime Minister John Howard jumped onto the Hanson bandwagon by slashing Aboriginal land rights. The evening has been organised by the European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR), a non-government organisation which campaigns against violations of Indigenous Australian rights. blackfella/whitestate
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The showcase, which will be presented at 7:30 pm on Thursday, 16 July 1998, at the Bread and Roses, Clapham, will feature five short films from Aboriginal directors and a selection of poems written and performed by Aboriginal poet Rikki Shields. Entry is free.
