The bus travels and shows us a couple of films.
The first film is about Jandamarra. He led other Aboriginals
in a military campaign against the newcomers. Tunnel creek was his most famous hideout. He won a few
battles but eventually lost the war. He was killed outside Tunnel Creek in
1897.
Another film is screened. Swimming The River. It tells the
story of noble savages living in peace and prosperity. Evil, white men come and
take their land. The white men shoot and
poison the people living there. The Aboriginals lived there for 60,000 years in
peace. They cared for the land and looked after each other. Their society was
destroyed. Now full of drugs, alcohol, mental ill-health, domestic violence and
suicide.
The film Swimming The River offers no solutions or ways
forward.
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