Babakiueria (1986)

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Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.

BabaKiueria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabaKiueria

Notes below video:

02:50 A developing people, starting to take an interest in the world around them; this is a good sign
- A strange and fascinating people
04:12 the children spend their days at school, learning about the ways of their people
- Simple uncomplicated lives
04:42 unlike THESE white people
Minister
- Morally wrong to leave them like that
05:50 [cynical cop] – waste of money spending on the whites
- Despite all evidence to the contrary, white family ties are very strong
08:27 [neglected old lady] a small flat, surprisingly clean
09:45 bookie office “worshippers”- “prayer tokens” – “what simple faith”
- 200^th anniversary
Minister 11:55 we’re all Babakiuerians – can organize their own events
13:09 turn this barren wasteland (highway) into a carefully designed park
14:15 white protestors
- Increasing militancy; potestors arrested
- Minister: “the actions of a minority…always the unhappy few giving the others a bad name”
16:12 father in the same job for the last 12 years – maintains work/life balance
17:05 Are while people intelligent…recent studies suggest they are
- The trouble is their insularity – they resist change
17:25 bold new intervention from government
- “is this the price of progress”…yes…we didn’t have any choice

Minister 19:20
- Would they rather we went away? What kind of a mess would they make of it?
- “Radical Whities”
20:09 natural tendency of white people to violence…they love violence…ritual violence
- Footie tribes & “hooliganism” [etymology]
21:27 Indigenous celebration
- “Death & sacrifice”
- ILLEGAL ASSEMBLY
- Drunkenness & offensive language
23:45 family being forced off land
- Son unbowed
- Don’t know where they’re going
- Obsequious parents
Reporter: this was an emotional experience for me
- Parents dumped out in the middle of nowhere
(Outro) 27:55 Outbreak of white protest
- “Situation under control”
- Stone through window of empty house

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Paired with / preceded/ succeeded by

Jane Elliott “Blue Eyes – Brown Eyes” Experiment Anti-Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAi78hluFc

Recall…🤦🏻‍♂️

(Sept 19, 2018) Controversial TV show sparks debate about changing racist attitudes toward Indigenous people https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/controversial-tv-show-sparks-debate-about-racism-1.4828519
- In the series First Contact, which airs on APTN, six white participants travel across Canada and openly air their thoughts about Indigenous people, whom participants describe as “lazy,” “alcoholics,” “welfare cheats,” and “hopeless” among many other negative stereotypes.
- Housty said while education about Indigenous people is needed to combat racism, she feels it should be non-Indigenous people educating their peers rather than Indigenous people shouldering the burden.