Coniston
2012
Streaming Video
More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, their descendants relate their story. The mass slaughter of Aboriginal people that started at Coniston station in Central Australia in the harsh drought of 1928 became known as "the last massacre". For some that epithet can be read as a convenient full stop on the frontier violence that raged soon after the arrival of the First Fleet.The Warlpiri and their neighbours never saw it that way. The events of those two months left a bloody stain on their country that will never be erased. The random killing of their countrymen - officially 31 people but widely considered to be many more - is a painful enough legacy in itself, but these times were tumultuous for another reason. This period also marks the transition from a traditional way of life on their lands to the unhappy experience of government settlements.
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Australia : PAW media, Rebel Films, 2012.Sydney : Beamafilm Pty. Ltd.
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1 online resource (streaming video file (57 min.) )
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Available online at Beamafilm.Aboriginal,EnglishDescription based on online resource; title from title screen.
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Director, David Batty,Francis Jupurrurla Kelly
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Cast: Cast: David Field,Fiona Nungarrayi Kitson,Elijah Japanangka Jones
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M Australian Classification BoardM New Zealand Classification Board
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Undetermined
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BRN:
765556
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