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Australia... 1972...

...first Aboriginal... outside Parliament...

At that time... temporary...

Land rights! Land rights! Land rights!

Land rights! Land rights! Land rights! Land rights!

[MAN] Tried... I tried to live. I tried to live...

Live... I tried to live...

I tried to live every day.

I tried to live every fuckin' day!

Tried real hard. I tried real hard to live.

I tried real hard to live every day!

Every day I tried real hard to live.

I say to this whitefella, right, "Hey, you!

"Yeah, I'm speaking to you!"

And I speak to that whitefella and I say...

I say to him, "I tried real fuckin' hard!

"I fuckin' tried!"

Yeah, I tried real hard and I sing it real loud

so he can hear me.

I said, "Listen to me! Listen to me here.

"Listen to me, you dirty little Jesus."

Every day I tried real hard and I sing him real loud.

And I sing him real loud and I say,

"You dirty little Jesus, listen to me!"

You and you and you and you!

And you and you and you and fuckin' you!

You! You! You walk down!

Fuckin' tell you every day I tried!

Every day. Every day.

You gonna listen to me? Hey?

You and you and you and you

and you and you and you and you and you.

I told all of you mob, all of you mob.

Everything. Every day I said...

I told 'em! I tried. I tried.

Yeah, you mob there.

From Saturday till Sunday

and then from Saturday to Sunday or Monday...

You dirty Jesus.

[DJALI] Abos.

Photos.

Buy a spear.

Buy a boomerang.

Bark art here.

How much?

Pay him.

A dollar do.

20 cents. He don't eat like you.

Waste it all on wine and such.

Dirty Abo.

How much?!

Hey, mate. How much? How much?

How much?

How MUCH? How much?

How much? How much?!

Hey!

Oi! How much?!

Abo! Photo!

Here, buy a spear!

Buy a boomerang! Hey! Hey!

Here, buy a spear!

Hey!

Hey! Here!

20 cents!

Ahh, he don't eat like you!

No. Hey.

He don't eat like you!

A dollar'll do!

20 cents!

Hey! FUCK OFF!

FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!

How much? Hey?

How much?

Here, buy a boomerang. Hey?

Hey. 20 cents! Hey.

He don't eat like you.

He just waste it.

On wine and such!

Hey, he wastes it all!

Buy a spear, buy a boomerang!

Goanna and grubs.

And nandoo mush!

[STATION ANNOUNCER] The train on platform one

stops at all stations to Nhulunbuy.

[DRAG QUEEN] Forget about that stupid bitch.

Looked at me like I'd killed her mangy dog.

Did you?

Honey, I wouldn't touch her dog with a six-foot dildo!

Honey, you don't deserve shit like that.

No way, girl.

I'll slap her for you, if you want. I'll slap her hard.

- Oh, you'd like that, eh? - I would.

[EMCEE] And now for something a little bit different.

The one and only, the fabulous Jedda Shake-a-Love.

Hey, what you call a blackfella with dandruff, hey?

What do you call him? What do you call him?

A lamington!

Hey, what do you call a carload of Abos going over a cliff?

An Abo-laaaaanche!

How do a group of Aborigines take a family portrait?

They all jump in the back of a stolen Torana

and they run a red light camera.

Smile, you mob!

Hey. Hey, brothers. Come here.

Come here. Come here.

Why do they call us boongs?

Because that's the sound we make

when we hit their bull bar.

Shh.

[MAN] I did well at school.

I respected the priest.

And I went to uni.

I got my degree.

I worked for the mongrels.

I got my pay, I got my super.

I got a wife.

I got kids.

I bought a home.

I did their contracts, dug up the earth.

I was always polite.

Never talked politics, never talked back.

Never talked shit.

And still...

I'm 40 years old.

A foot in each world and a heart in none.

I started drinking, started gambling.

I lost my wife, I lost my kids.

I lost my job.

I lost myself.

A foot in each world and a heart in none.

Hey!

Old man belong to tribe.

Point bone at me.

They sing me dead.

I die soon.

[WOMAN] That's just rubbish talk.

No-one can make you die.

Tell me, if you die, what I do?

I not know this country.

How I find bush food, tucker?

I die too.

Ah, you die.

Good.

Then Manjinga have bigfella.

Manjinga saying you wrong skin for me.

[MAN] Firstly, the... the Aborigines

are a masculoid people racially,

of Australoid stock.

They're supposed to have come from south India...

[CHARLES PERKINS] 20,000 years

we've been inhabiting this continent, this country,

this great country, but the Aboriginal people do not own...

You may think there's a bright future for Aborigines in Australia today

because society can put me where I am.

At the present time, we have six different policies

concerning Aborigines here in Australia.

In Australia today we have one of the greatest...

You may think there's a bright future for Aborigines in Australia today

because society can put me where I am.

It's just a load of crap.

A load of crap. A load of crap. A load of crap. A load of crap.

A load of crap. A load of crap.

[MAN] Firstly, the... the Aborigines

are a masculoid people, racially.

[MAN] Hey, little fella.

Lie down.

Don't tell. Don't tell anybody.

It's our secret.

It's our secret.

[MAN] It's our secret.

[MAN] You've got beautiful skin.

Take them off.

Lie down.

You've got beautiful skin.

You listen to me.

Yeah.

He'll come down here

and help me drink my vinny-vinny-vinegar.

Hmm. Yeah.

You Jew bastard.

You Jew bastard.

No-one ever listens to what I have to say.

No-one.

Eh? Hey, you're a dirty bastard.

What'll I do? Pretend? Pretend?

Nah. Nah, not hide, not hide.

Not hide. Not hide.

Yeah, not hide.

I'm just a poor blackfella.

[MAN] Yeah, buy 'em. Here, here!

Buy a boomerang. Here.

Pay him. 20 cents. Whatever.

A dollar'll do.

He don't eat like you.

No-one... well, no-one listens to me.

Eh?

No-one.

Nothing.

Eh? You never listen to me.

What'd I say?

Huh? What did I do?

I'm gonna hide in there.

Gonna hide.

I'm gonna pretend.

Eh? Eh?!

Yeah.

What?

Nah, nah.

No, you'll waste it all on wine and such.

You fuckin' Aborigin...

..Aborigin...

What'd I do, eh?!

Yeah... Oh.

Fuck off.

You... What?

Yeah.

Got ya!

Yeah, buy a spear. Here, buy a boomerang.

Nah. Hey.

There you are, eh?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hey!

I'm coming. Yeah, I'm coming.

I'm coming. No, wait there.

Wait there. Wait there. Wait there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey!

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