I wonder if you'd believe this as a solution to the Aboriginal problem heard the worst of the Aborigines into one area and put a chemical in their water that sent them sterile in time there'd be none of them left well that solution has been put forward by none other than one of the premier's closest friends West Australian mining magnate Lang Hancock those would have been assimilated into you know earning good living learning wages amongst the Civilized areas that have been accepted into society and they have accepted society and can handle Society I'd leave them well alone the ones that are no good to themselves and can't accept things the half cast and this is where most of the Trouble Comes I would doubt the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future and that would solve the problem we rounded people up into our own concentration camps in fact what we have done from the original Invasion to now is constantly reduce Aboriginal people to a sub-human status policy says you're a black Aboriginal Australian you're not wanted on this Earth this is Sydney Jewel of Australia and the good life I'm on my way to Palm Beach to meet Diana Edwards who manages Holiday Homes overlooking the Pacific oh that's impressive isn't it beautiful it's like been on a ship and all of that is Palm Beach yep that's that is the Pacific Ocean at its best people sort of are always popping in for drinks so two levels of entertaining which is fabulous with a huge big decks yeah what is this rent for now um Christmas time about thirty thousand dollars Australian per week a week yeah per week that's a lot of money it is it is but it's um the peak time when everybody is here absolute Paradise found I finally found it yeah I mean the people ever say to you look 30 or 40 000 a week is just too much or do they say that's fine no because obviously you pay for what you get in life yeah behind this million dollar view is the other Australia a secret Battleground where the first people of Australia fought the invading British this was their land which they defended bravely and with Ingenuity but they had no guns and were defeated in 1838 the Sydney monitor reported it was resolved to exterminate the whole race of blacks in that quarter and this is how many of the survivors lived today this is Eric alcadra who works at the health center in the Aboriginal community of unbladderwatch some 200 miles from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory oh yeah I moved moved in here now it's here another families living in one house maybe 20 in one house 15 in another I'm living outside do you have a kitchen in your house no no kitchen yeah I have to make a fire outside yeah you're gonna fire there wood wood outside no electricity no electricity yeah pick up water yeah I used to tap out here and you don't have a shower or anything like that no shower so it's just that one outside tap yeah so to wash the kids they've got to stand out on the tap yeah get a hose get hose the kids shouldn't be like this should it no no it's a rich country yeah it's rich for some you have a right to certain things you're paying your taxes but I'm living in attention here you are living with your family here without a kitchen tap outside no electricity just over there there's what they call a government business manager and he's got 18 air conditioners yeah you should have given me one then [Music] a city of white was born with its Gardens of Blues and it's fair perfumes [Music] Australia's creation heart of a Nation these days this is Canberra the capital of Australia it's very quiet with wide clean streets manicured Lawns excellent schools and this is the Australian Parliament according to a government survey it's one of the most advantaged places in one of the wealthiest countries and this is the suburb of Barton named after the first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton whose Act of parliament in 1901 became known as the white Australia policy the doctrine of the equality of man said Barton was never intended to apply to those who weren't British and white skinned Barton made no mention of a people who had lived here for thousands of years the longest human presence on Earth they were deemed barely human Unworthy of recognition in the new Suburban Utopia they are Australia's Secret this film is a journey into that secret country my homeland people describe not only the uniqueness of the first Australians but their Trail of Tears and betrayal and resistance from one Utopia to another [Music] we're about 200 miles from Alice Springs and heading into the red heart of Australia it's a region known as utopia call that by the first white people here who either had a very acute sense of irony or were demented by the fury of the Heat it hasn't rained for months and it's extremely dry in the survey I mentioned at the beginning of the film which name Barton and Canberra is the most advantaged place in Australia the most privileged place it also named Utopia has the most disadvantaged place the poorest place in Australia it's the home of the first Australians [Music] [Music] hey baby [Applause] [Music] I had arranged to meet David Smith who runs the clinic in the town of umbleta Watch David and his team from the Aboriginal Health Service do their best helping to care for communities across the vastness of utopia and Beyond people live here because this has been their Homeland for thousands of years their spiritual and physical home and yet they are denied the basic facilities that white Australia regards as their right and takes for granted we're meant to be doing Primary Health Care when really we haven't got the basic needs of a human being under under raptured you know which is uh sanitation water shelter they're out here they've got no we don't have public transport so if you don't have a car you're trapped out here so that's impacting as well there's no Bush bus service the essence of us being sharing this planet together and having some equality of Life the these toilets being blocked of course that's going to have a mass flow on effect you know by cross-contamination with the hand washing just in general you know and if you haven't got water and you haven't got light well what's going on Mary I'm just going to show John this toilet here is that okay show him what's going on in here this is an overflow toilet uh John obviously with a lot of uh rusted out underneath tin there and obviously it's going to attract uh snakes and other Vermin into here and uh this toilet here is obviously a going concern of what's been happening here at uh you know I don't know we can tell that we don't have a functioning toilet you think there would be a bison in here so that kids can wash their hands we've got a mirror so they can check that their eyes trichoma you know we've got ongoing issues cross-contamination of gastroenteritis um oh just so many numerous things that this can create I mean where do I stop it's you know these are compacting let alone on the diabetic and the chronic diseases we know that there's a major problem with diabetes we know there's a major problem with renal and coronary disease but what we haven't started addressing is the impacts that low quality housing and poor maintenance and sanitary practice is impacting on an Aboriginal loss all this needs no revamping yeah it's pulling down and billing again well it's not a refurbishment is it no no do you get a lot of cockroaches and that um yeah because they came out and sprayed not that long ago didn't they I've had to get them out of their ears they've crawled into their ears and I've shown other health workers they didn't believe me I said now you need to have a look at this and look in the air with a um otoscope and seeing a cockroach with his legs and all intact curled up in an ear and it's in it you know in adults as well as children's ears in the canal so I know that they're there so you can't tell me that there's not cockroaches and it's not a problem two talking about ears to a lot of these children have blue ears that is I use media blocker Otis media is a compounding Factor um in in indigenous people what's the what's the effect of that well it's a learning process a delay delay learning due to the not hearing correctly I can't hear the teacher no that's right we're going to get a lot of a lot of problems we'll get it respiratory normally uh we'll get uh cross-contamination diarrhea gastroenteritis and how does it affect the young children particularly well hydration levels you know you you lose you know they lose 10 percent of their body of their body fluids um we've got some serious problems these conditions Bear a striking similarity to communities I filmed 28 years ago this is all footage but it could be today across remote black Australia little seems to have changed the same Shacks the same lack of basic Services the same diseases like trachoma that causes blindness and is entirely preventable I can't believe that I'm actually in one of the richest countries in the world and you have people Aboriginal communities here who are living in conditions which are really almost inhuman Aboriginal people are frequently blind for their poverty while Australians pretend that governments have tried to invest in those intransigent communities and never got any result the truth is something else entirely governments do not invest in remote Aboriginal communities because if governments do they know they won't be in government very much longer I I think it's quite shocking that you can have this level of poverty and this level of lack of basic facilities and one of the richest countries in the world Australia can easily resolve the problems here if you take the Utopia Community which is where we are the homelands here the total population is only one thousand four hundred if you take the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territories as a whole you're not talking about more than 50 000 people or so so to suggest that you know after decades we can't solve this problem in a country which is absolutely not short of resources means that the problem is somewhere else Mr Snowden you've been a A Member of Parliament for the Northern Territory for a total of 23 years almost a quarter of a century a third of the territories people are Aboriginal why after all these years is there unchanging shocking poverty wherever you look hard question to answer in short uh I think they're a combination of issues one of which is some Legacy issues which revolve around very poor government policy for well 50 years at least I mean I've been making films on indigenous Australia for as long as you've been a politician and to be shocked all over again is is quite an experience and what people have told me over the years our sets of excuses in the context of Health for which I'm responsible and have been responsible now for a number of years three years we've made massive interventions which will address many of those issues we've got significant policies very good policies addressing chronic disease management these policies have been introduced by this government since 2007 and they are making a significant difference there was no significant difference for one Aboriginal man who died during the night I was staying in his community the next morning his family and his small tin Shack were gone when an Aboriginal person dies their home dies too on the night I was there a man called Mr Davey aged just 47 died of a heart attack in his humpy about 20 meters from the clinic they couldn't save him with all the equipment they had and all their expertise they had and it was made clear to me that they couldn't save him because this man probably had as a child rheumatic heart disease which is the highest recorder has the highest recorded rate in the world which is why we're investing in the primary health care to try and ensure that these young kids the next generation of kids don't have their father's problems and that's what we're doing and I'm proud of what we're doing well I'm glad you're proud I just couldn't see evidence well beginner thing of in these in these days you talked to the doctors ring the doctor's up after yes I've talked to them one doctor doctor one doctor I talked to she I didn't expect her to say what she said she compared the conditions with 19th century dickensian England she said in that time there was rheumatic heart disease that's right I talked to another Doctor Who reminded reminded me that Australia is on a United Nations Shameless as having not conquered trachoma which even poor countries like Sri Lanka and did she tell you about the Investments we're making in trachoma right now I'm not proud of the past I'm certainly not proud of the past what about the person what I am proud of is you're proud of the president I'm proud of the fact that how could any how could any Australian and I'm in Australia walk into those beginning to say their prayers do let me finish I'm proud of the response this government's made to what is a very poor set of circumstances for Aboriginal people not only there but in other communities across this country and I won't have it from you that we're not committed to doing making those changes and I won't have it from you that we're not investing those resources Mr Snowden for two reasons one you're the minister of indigenous health and two you've been the representative of some of the poorest sickest people in Australia for 23 years why haven't you fixed it um what a stupid question what a stupid question what a plural question sometimes in my darker moments I actually think that addressing the indigenous development problem in Australia is beyond the capacity of Australia and that we actually need overseas aid in addressing this problem we need we need people from outside Australia to come in and tell us how do we deal with this problem it's become so politicized and acerbic here that we just cannot uh deal with it rationally [Music] no one nine was a young man [Music] and I let the free life [Music] from the Murray's green bison to the dusty Outback well I Waltz mine till the all over here as you enter the Australian war memorial in Canberra Aboriginal people are represented alongside wild animals reptiles and birds in a country of cinetovs commemorating Foreign Wars not one stands for those who fought and died resisting the invasion of their own country Australia is there any commemoration Remembrance in the museum about the frontier Wars the wars fought against that Invasion no why is that I don't know that was a major war isn't it I don't know I mean listening to you I'm surprised you have such a very interesting and a very enlightened view frankly of so many wars and yet we have yes no commemoration I said I served with indigenous soldiers and they're wonderful people and I had great admiration for what they did and I know how they suffered but I really don't know why we don't Embrace that history maybe we're maybe we're not overly proud of that history thank you official them in Australia is so sensitive to this truth that I was refused permission to film in this great public place and had to play tourists with a camera [Music] walls my first encounter with Aboriginal people was here at La perouse overlooking Botany Bay where Captain Cook landed I was 11 years old and it was an adventure to sit on the sand dunes and look at the people who lived in Shacks who were meant to be dying off Aboriginal people were not counted in the senses unlike the Sheep a school textbook explained why we are civilized and they are not this is a TV documentary from 1962 that captures the mood of the time as if Aborigines were not Australians at all an attitude that seems to have barely changed do you regard yourself as dark and your people as dark people oh yes my father was a full blood and my mother's fear or take after my mother but I don't class myself any better or any lower than anybody else I I just class myself on it on the level of everybody else why do you think that you live the way that you do oh well see this place here that they haven't done it up but they pay rent people pay rent here but the prices are not up to standard some of them could pass easier for us dragons few of them care to talk about their disappointments have you ever taken any interest in this whole problem yourself yes before years ago why did it I was fighting for child endowment bonuses I'm against the way the papers they incriminate my people they'd ring us down they don't try to lift us at all they forget we're human denigrating their Humanity was part of an ideological campaign known as the history Wars following the election of the conservative John Howard in the 1990s a group of academics and commentators claimed there'd be no invasion of Australia no massacres no genocide foreign the arrival of the British was a day of celebration for which the natives should be grateful they and their culture were all but obsolete their history worthless genocide denial was the propaganda of Empire trying yet again to justify the stealing of land and the banishment of its people it's Australia Day 2013 celebrating the founding of Australia has a penal colony in 1788 the convicts were the poor British and Irish for Aborigines this is survival day a day of mourning what's Australia Today mean to you just a big celebration on all our country do you think the first Australians have a role in Australia Day are they many of them are rather offended by it are they why well because that's the day 225 years ago that we took their country as all we all think of them anyway too that's why we all celebrate do you think they have a special place so as it was their country for thousands of years they could have their special place but now it's everyone's place they still live in very poor conditions most of them oh suppose that's there for all day if they're part of our society too they have to do the same as us and try and help things when they can get work thanks to to be one of us I know it's hard for them because nobody wants to employ them they say it's their country when you say one of us they would say well maybe it's the other way around yes this is ours I know that that's what makes it hard doesn't it well over history that's always happened isn't it from the original yeah the yeah this is only through the media that I've heard where they're drunk and they can't get up and they don't want to help themselves you know we'll that's that's no good either is it you know you've got to try and get them sober save them up and say well you know you can have a future living in such shocking conditions still there well I think that's what they want they get offered a lot of things but that's what they want you think they get off a lot yes I've been into Central Australia and all that and yeah yeah I think that's just how they like to live they like to live in that in their own yeah what about the people whose country it was in the beginning what about them they've got much to celebrate today have they no they do what because you come to this country mate you're a part of this country oh they didn't come to this country they were here to begin with they had it they're all strange of years they're all Australia everybody that comes with this country is Australian why do you think they find today a day of mourning a day of offensive day because it celebrates I do not believe that was an offensive we are all Australians every single person walking past me right here yeah everybody yeah the Aussie it doesn't matter if they're black white yellow blue green whatever man yeah they're Rossi we're on Australian are you Australian no you're not Irish how do you think the first Australians make up today because they haven't got a lot to celebrate have they the Aboriginal people in my way well uh 225 years ago uh their country was taken from see you later you're full of [ __ ] the fact remains that we've never left this country we have never seated any part of our country or signed that over to any other foreign settlers that's Australian we've never done that none of our people have ever agreed to say Rada you can take my country but in exchange for that I want some welfare funds our people have never been aware of such a transaction what amazes me is there is not the hatred because that's beneath our dignity to hate people um we have not got that we have not got that anger but as all people have to start thinking about writing the wrong awful wrong that continues to happen to us and Ours [Music] the early birding traffic takes the Narrows Bridge to Perth while down the swan at applecross the boats lie at their birth this was the official 1960s vision of a Suburban Utopia in Australia's biggest and richest state but it was dependent on airbrushing out an entire human community ah this is better than life for me a day by the beach in the open sea rottnest Express is the smoothest fastest ferry service traveling to rottnest Island what Nest island is Western Australia's idyllic Island Getaway I'm traveling to rottnest Island from Perth tourists call it rotto from 1838 it was a brutal prison but ought to be as notorious as Robben Island in South Africa two members of the indigenous nunga Nation they know the truth about this island when I asked Marianne to accompany me she was fearful until Noel offered to protect her from the sense of horror and Injustice that awaited us rottnest Island was one of the British Empire's most isolated concentration camps part of a genocidal history that's barely recognized in white Australia on the beach Noel performs a ceremony meant to protect us all so do you scoop up a bit of sand and then finale Wagga like your body odor will be on the sand and when you throw it out there the spirit here will know that you're here what are we in thank you father than Indian on the ferry over I just picked this up yep and here it is rottnest Island yes and naively I was waiting for a description in the historical section of something yeah not the horrors but even a sanitized version of the concentration camp that was here there isn't anything no historic rottenness here it is play and stay make Wonder of rottnest Island and the harmonious surroundings of names of the nest Lodge daily ferries and organized flights can whisk your way to this paradise in just 30 minutes this was a prison known as the quad thousands of Aboriginal men and boys were incarcerated here many of them tortured and killed today it's a hotel with a luxury spa Australia must be no the only country that makes a tourist Hotel out of a place of carnage I can't think of another one they're the obvious comparisons yeah but this is it's so degrading we we feel so you know so traumatized about all of this and uh you can imagine seven people living trying to be crammed into each cell you know there's three cells here and the kind of conditions that they were living in the the conditions they lived in initially when this was first built um they only had one vent above the door that was it and it gets really cold here and it gets really hot here this is obviously a family room this is where the children go they've got double Bunch yep parrots there yep um and you know you know this room we're in is actually um three rooms in each cell there's three of them here so nine 17 people died in each cell 17 people so in this expanse you can see from that wall over there to there 51 people have died and this is what people now pay 240 dollars yes that's what it costs we rented this room to do this interview wow two hundred and forty dollars unbelievable and they don't have any idea what happened in here no one tells them No One lets them know and I tell you what if it was me I would want to know what happened in the room that I sleep in just outside that window that door they built a Gallows they hung a gas going man there and the other prisoners that came down with him had never seen someone hung and they were subjected to being lined up each side of the Gallows and the prisoners built the Gallows that had already been here and they've watched as that man was hung the impact it had on them they were just stunned and for days and days they were just Mourning and wouldn't eat so that's ticking over as well as what happened here and you know these people coming in here and staying here this is what Aboriginal people are subjected to in Australia The Lucky Country I mean lucky for who certainly not us we're refugees in our own country next to the hotel is one of Australia's largest mass Graves over 300 Aboriginal prisoners are buried here until a few years ago there was no sign indicating this was sacred ground what was once the morgue is now the hotel kitchen the manager of the hotel told me there were long-term plans to convert the quad prison to a memorial you see the burial ground and they just got no respect at all for for the history of our people have all them unmarked Graves with a you know a sign talking about the place but then you've got a road right between her where the car can drive through and people can just walk and desecrate the areas of our ancestors remains rottnest island is not the past Western Australia is a state of imprisonment for black Australians on Australia Day 2008 an Aboriginal man called Mr Ward died a terrible death as he was driven 300 miles in this prison van in blazing Heat the temperature in the mobile cell reached 56 degrees Centigrade the coroner called it a disgrace the director of public prosecutions took two years before deciding to do nothing eventually the van drivers their employers and the prisons Department were fined for a breach of health and safety regulations an Aboriginal man called Mr Ward suffered really terrible death the coroner said in effect he cooked to death the coroner also said that your department when you were minister shed the responsibility for his death I certainly contemplate a resignation after it happened because what's the point in Parliament if you can't change things for the better well the Aboriginal Legal Services yes they routinely warned you yes as Minister yes so you couldn't say you didn't know no I knew and I in fact I couldn't recall writing a lengthy letter to the Aboriginal legal service I did so on the on the basis that the bureaucrat gave me insurances that they would lift their game this was an especially horrific death a man cooked to death he was so hot that there was a terrible burn across his body and he died where does the buck stop ultimately you're right the buck stops with me um all the whole justice system uh is to some extent at fault now I as I said I'm not evading my role because I'd I regard myself as at some level being personally responsible you were in charge of the department yes I agree entirely and it's something that I'll go to mcgrave regretting intensely why didn't you resign I contemplated it for three days what happened and then I thought well um I really want to see if I can you know do whatever I can to fix the issue but what did you do to fix it what what I did was um we already had for example other transport um better better style vehicles on order and so there are things like that that need change but that doesn't happen to white people does it no of course not when was the last time a government minister in Australia resigned and said we can't take this kind of atrocious racism it seems that we're waiting for the next case to happen I had to put my staff through cultural sensitivity training cultural sensitivity but my staff in my office on the pretext so that I could then invite the senior people from corrective services along in the hope that they suddenly suddenly understood some of these fundamental issues what what's cultural sensitivity well well about about our Aboriginal culture what the issues were from a corrective Services perspective so I've suggested my staff who I or who I thought were excellent in my ministerial office to this training on the pretext that I could get some of the senior managers in from the Department in to actually learn some basic facts about Aboriginal culture so they didn't know any history they didn't know that massacres took place across this country they didn't know that that people had been sent to a form of Devil's Island certainly some of them did there are some very well-meaning people who do all know that but some of the Senior Management and in fact one of the senior managers uh who's a female she was asked when she joined the Department here in an interview in the departmental magazine um you know what exposure she had to Aboriginal culture she said she'd come from Bradford and dealt with a lot of pakistanis so she understood these issues how was she planning to deal with Aborigines in Australia well I I just had no idea it was shortly after that that I arranged the training session you arranged the cultural yeah sensitivity training yeah is Western Australia building more prisons um at the moment there [Music] racking and stacking them as the vernacular excuse me what is racking and stacking well they're double bunking so it literally is warehousing people I think they're warehousing and racking and stacking that's the way they filled up the slave ships that that is what they're doing John they are raking and stacking they've just built a 14th prison adult prison uh and and they've lauded it's been applauded by a lot of people it's up in Derby and it's an Aboriginal prison so it's going to be mostly Aboriginal no it's going to be all Aboriginal from less than three percent of the population this whole notion of the Law and Order State um you know increasingly looking um as some argue to have um you know a centaur state that looks after very well those who conform um and and fit in to um in in terms of uh you know neoliberal Global values and incarcerates and and treats very harshly those who don't conform and I think what we see in Australia is not just a punishing of the poor but punishing of the indigenous different um these are people who have fundamentally different norms and they're very susceptible to not conforming to the Norms of the Law and Order state which again some argue is a direct product of a global neoliberalism here where we are in the Northern Territory the rate of incarceration was six times that of the incarceration of black people during the last 10 years of apartheid in South Africa in Western Australia it's apparently eight times more do you think Australia should be regarded as an apartheid state I don't think it's a lot different apart from the fact that there aren't signs everywhere saying you know black people drink from this step and white people drink from that tab but in in in Alice Springs alone it you would have to be blind not to see a part right here the amount of people are taken into protective custody is staggering and the recent death in custody Colonial and Alice Springs I can't remember the figures but even after 25 years in the Northern Territory I was staggered that I needed that that actually that many people go into our custody the evidence is in all our jails particularly in the Northern Territory fools were bursting and it's not going to change anytime soon we really need to deal with the the underlying problems and again it's easy for me to say because I don't have the answer but we've spoken about it giving people good housing giving people a good education making sure People's Health is looked after as well as mine and everybody else is in the community in 1981 Eddie Murray died in police custody in the New South Wales town of we War in spite of evidence of police lying and cover-up no one was prosecuted a second inquest found that his sternum had been smashed for more than 25 years I followed and filmed a campaign for Justice by Eddie's parents Arthur and Leela Murray I filmed this interview with them in 1987. in my own mind I know Eddie he wouldn't have take his life I think he was killed by it the police officer in 2012 Arthur and I went back to We wore where his family had grown up and were Eddie had been killed Arthur Murray's life and extraordinary achievements are almost unknown in white Australia Arthur worked as a chipper weeding the cotton fields he was paid just over a dollar an hour paying black Australians or pittance has a long history in the land of fair go it was hard too because we had we had planes flying over topless when we were working pesticides once they sprayed the cotton you know they spray YouTube we had to work under those conditions until we put a stop to it Arthur Murray and the cotton chippers went on strike and hundreds of them marched through the town we wanted a bit of working conditions a better living condition and higher wages all right arranged to have it the average people stopped work not to go on to a cotton wheel was everyone unanimous on that they all agreed we stopped work and we demonstrated the local newspaper called them communist troublemakers Arthur was the best kind of trouble the cotton chippers won an historic victory so we won a battle of three you want higher wages living conditions the council allowed you to Camp here yeah so our demands were met but the Murray Family paid a price they were harassed and often attacked by whites leading to the violent death of Eddie the white people from other hand didn't think it was right for us to live here so they just come and Intimidators and harasses what are your feelings coming back to wee wall Arthur Donna it has it's hard to come back to this place it's a sense of uh John of losing a boy you know people like myself and and other people that fought for for having a people and fought for their rights and fought for better condition fought for for what we feel that is what hasn't changed one bit and I doubt with a with it will change you keep you keep asking yourself that is keep asking themselves a question over and over uh we're going to find Justice and we're going to find the people that that recognize that we existed in this country one rule for the whites and one reel for the blacks as far as I'm concerned I mean the Royal commission said that the police committed perjury but they falsified their records that they lied how many prosecutions were there nil the Royal commission came up with how many recommendations in the end 339 recommendations they've came up with and there is still nothing's been done and there are still people dying in police and prison custody the day I walked up those steps into that front door and I was asked to go upstairs and to be told that he was dead I couldn't believe it I still don't believe it how do you feel after all these years what do you want to happen Lily I want the state government to have a look at it you know see if we can get some answers from them in other words for what they took away from us you know son I've suffered a lot you know over the years I don't think I'd take any more we do dancers don't when do you think things will ever change in this country this country Leela died in 2004 still fighting for justice every time you come here is it sadness and anger or Donna Smith the sadness and also anger ah and that's how I do to talk about it but yeah I've got a express my feelings about a son that I loved and I expressed my my anger about how he died and under those circumstances and uh those anger still are still with me it it's almost impossible to say that Eddie foreign didn't die in vain because it began a campaign on behalf of so many others which your T-shirt says and it's the recognition of that by white Australia that can only redeem if that's possible white Australia from its own role in the deaths of young men like Eddie recognition of it and that means Justice doesn't it for sure I'd mean Justice and this happened in 1981 and it's 2012. yeah and we are still waiting yeah for the white man to give us Justice and it has to come yet this is Leila's grave yeah well she felt John Lewis pain and can sorrow and she thought maybe one day that we'll get Justice but that's right that has failed us failed there the final family how old were you when you met you two I was 15 little 16 ah 17. it's two years older than yeah blue been together for 46 47 years together and you brought up a family of 12 children together nine girls three boys here yeah a great lady a great woman yeah I can't say anything better than that she was a a classic a lovely lady Arthur Murray's heroic stand for the cotton workers is part of a hidden history of Aboriginal resistance epic victories by Stockman Farm Workers and their families ended slave labor in Australia at wave Hill in the Northern Territory an historic strike by the garingji people became a rallying cry for justice for all black Australians this movement this strike was the longest strike in Australia's history yeah it's eight years and they were threatened by police and others who worked on the station they would have made a stand against this and this is one of the most historical movements in this country wave Hill was the largest cattle station in the world owned by the British multi-millionaire Lord Vesti Aboriginal people were the backbone of the cattle industry yet they work for little or no money and rations in 1966 led by Vincent lingiari the workers and their families walked off their Defiance is expressed by their Union organizer Dexter Daniels yes too long to wait so you want to break the law in effect that's right you think you get all the Aborigines on your side yes in all the Northern Territory that's right I win I do all I can every way as I can I'll bring them in my ways this strike was a victory for the principle of equal pay and decent working and living conditions the struggle for land rights is at the heart of the continuing struggle for freedom in Australia black Australians have won limited land rights and a native title law but this often gives preference to the institutions of white power resulting in bitter divisive battles for sacred land and the wealth beneath it [Music] the Sacred Heart of Aboriginal Australia is Uluru where tourists can enjoy the good life for more than two thousand dollars a night it's ecosensitive and out of sight of the poverty and slums of those whose Land This is [Music] the people of mutajulu are the custodians of The Rock they're overcrowded houses are riddled with asbestos which causes cancer since 2008 the government has built fewer than a thousand new houses for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory this is my daughter's house Mary she lives here with extended family groups and 32 people now living in this one 32 people see the community condemned that house there because the asbestos was all broken yeah and it was painted over it was broken so it's going to cause health problems in the future and so you've had a lot of that pressure haven't you yes of people having to move from condemned houses into houses like this one so they've done audits of all of moto Julie the whole Community they've found asbestos in 70 of the buildings they've identified it like this yes and yet they've allowed people to go on living yes yes because obviously we've got nowhere else to live we do not and my main concern because we've got little kiddies in this comes through [Music] because at the moment we're in Dire Straits you know you sleep end to end and end and end like we've done as kids there's the bathroom yep bathroom and the toilet there's so many people living in here you can't renovate an asbestos house it's got to come down so there's 20 people living in a house with one toilet and every time more people come to stay the sewer floods you know this raw sewage in the backyard so you're talking about stronger lordies sometimes I wonder if I should be testing people for cholera I'm looking out for it has this house had any money at all from the housing authority to renovate it people got one cent to repair our houses the repairs what we do here we go to the local rubbish dump and we recycle whatever we can yeah yeah that's the way that we have to survive here a lot of young children are here too aren't they well uh majority of the householder the primary school children primary school children so that in this kind of overcrowding that cross-infection that all children are prone to is going to be rampant 70 hearing appear impairment amongst the little ones just not on 70 ear infection and so they're hearing partly deaf yeah yes they are my my daughter here who owns his house is dead how ironic that my daughter has to put up asbestos house with 32 people in Australians this is why we say an abuse of Human Rights Australians yeah there was a report by the indigenous doctors Association that mentioned the incidence and degree of malnutrition starvation oh absolutely malnourished children um people who are overweight who are still malnourished because they're living basically on flower and meat which is subsidized by the council here some of the money that comes to the community Through the tourism Venture is used to subsidize the cost of meat so people get enough protein but they don't get enough Vitamins because they don't get fruit and vegetables because they're too expensive how many people would have to sleep in this bed well if you can double up the kids hit the foot head to foot head to foot probably about eight or not yes then you've got another mattress with about three or four we sleep in a single bed you've had report after report by the government saying that this the biggest single cause of poverty among Aboriginal people is housing following his apology Kevin Rudd promised in fact a lot of 700 million dollars to building housing houses in in indigenous communities where is it they had nine brand new vehicles with 11 people in the 90s these are the housing people they came and ordered it the community not once seven times and still the housing condition is still like this we we also have extra people living outside outside here or family be sleeping family be sitting there well I feel sometimes like I'm dealing with similar conditions to the English working class in the 1870s where or the 1780s for example where you had 20 people in a room and an open sewer in the middle of the court and people dealing with uh terrible infectious diseases that killed them early and addictive behaviors from the dispossession that the English working class went through at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 2007 prime minister John Howard and his Minister Mal brough declared a state of emergency in the Northern Territory but they applied it only to Black Australians well ladies and gentlemen Mr Bruff and I have called this news conference to announce a number of major measures to deal with what we can only describe as a National Emergency in relation to the abuse of children in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory known as the intervention its aim they said was to save Aboriginal children from pedophiles but there was a hidden agenda it is interventionist it does push aside the role of the of the territory to some degree I accept that but what matters more the Constitutional niceties or the care and protection of young children the intervention was launched on a very cynical big lie a vicious one that smeared all Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory because the minister for indigenous Affairs at the time Mel Brook said there were pedophile rings in all of these communities that the federal government was going to occupy an extraordinary sweeping claim the legislation that delivered the intervention this Federal takeover doesn't actually mention children but the propaganda machine from the beginning was relentless everybody in those communities knows who runs the pedophile Rings they know who brings in the petrol they know they know who sell the gunja they need to be taken out of the community and deal dealt with an extraordinary sweeping claim if we are going to be saving the children we couldn't have any of the recommendations about talking to the Aboriginal organizations or Consulting Aboriginal people or even asking the Aboriginal families well what is the status of these children it was time to send in the troops they scared The Living Daylights out of everybody it really did the mothers taught their children was going to be taken away and they bolted everybody left this community so they the Army just rolled in in their trucks and pitched their tents in the middle of the community yes yeah right Australian army yes in an Australian Aboriginal Community yes all these soldiers we were being attacked foreign for the first time in modern Australia the Army was sent into black communities at the spearhead of a government determined to control people's lives and their land fear and shock overwhelmed communities people who refused to hand over the lease of their lands were to be denied basic services like decent housing and sanitation a government job scheme that employed thousands in remote areas was all but eliminated benefits and pensions were restricted and people could only buy Essentials with a special Basics card only black citizens were treated this way as people's incomes were quarantined starvation was reported the government's own Review Committee found what it called a collective despair among Aboriginal people the rate of self-harm and attempted suicide quadrupled laying the ground for the intervention was a lurid media campaign led by a national TV program called late line [Music] late line claimed that Aboriginal children were the victims of sex slavery the program's allegations centered on the community of mutter julu a key witness was this man whose identity was disguised they called him a former youth worker the people who are in control are the drug dealers and the petrol Warlords and the pedophiles there was no sex slavery no petrol Warlords no pedophile rings the anonymous witness was actually a senior government official who had worked in motor julu but never lived there the late line program was exposed by investigative journalist Chris Graham founder of the national indigenous times in 2006 late line began reporting that sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities was rampant and that Aboriginal men were violent and beating and abusing women and children on a on a scale that can't be believed and it was that style of extraordinary sensationalist reporting that paved the way for the federal government to introduce policies that frankly Australians haven't seen I mean the anonymous youth worker in fact was this government official call Gregory Andrews and he claimed that he'd actually lived there for seven months he hadn't lived there a single night he'd never stayed overnight in moradulu in his life I've been told by a number of people of men in the region who go to other communities and get young girls and bring them back to their community and keep them there as six slaves the funniest thing was seeing Greg Andrews or seeing this man in a hat and a jumper that I knew was his hat and his jumper and seeing him sitting there talking in this robotic voice about stuff that he had known about this community or seemingly known about this community and I'm sitting there watching going is that Greg and it was and there was and who did you know Greg to be so Greg Andrews was my boss in the department in the office of indigenous policy coordination he was the assistant secretary the branch manager so he was a government a senior government official yes yes he made all sorts of bizarre claims he he made a claim that he knew of or he had heard of children being held in communities against their will and traded amongst communities by Aboriginal men as sex slaves he claimed that he'd seen women coming to meetings with broken arms and screwdrivers and other implements hanging out of their legs was there any substance at all in any of these claims zero I mean none at all I asked the man in the Hat Gregory Andrews for an interview but he declined the minister for indigenous Affairs Mel Bruff looking at the evidence quote unquote that the program had produced about so-called pedophile Rings said the child abuse was happening in Unthinkable numbers extraordinary thing to say wasn't it extraordinary particularly in the context that he knew the anonymous former youth worker on the ABC program was actually his advisor to me that was indicative of a complete lack of good faith in the production of the program because if they couldn't get someone more more objective than that it's it must to those who are making the program of made them at least think that there was a possible problem more than a possible problem and yet they just went ahead with it the Australian crime commission which you set up and gave special powers to found no evidence the Northern Territory police found no evidence umpteen reports since then frankly have found no evidence well that is I'll reel them off to you if you'd like feel free factually incorrect so what they have found is that the Australian crime commission were lying the Northern Territory police had got it wrong is that it the reality is is that when they went into these communities they couldn't find the people that would substantiate the evidence they will tell you that there is any amount of inescapable evidence such as STD of children at a very young age and I have personally spoken to parents and relatives who can identify the individuals but they won't you accused Aboriginal communities and all Aboriginal communities not just matajulu of harboring pedophile Rings first of all there was an independent report put together inquiry put together by the Northern Territory labor government they visited 45 distinct separate Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and they found evidence of child sexual abuse in every single Community Mr Bruff totally completely misrepresented little children are sacred and used it in a very crude way to his own ends why would the minister want to say such a thing because it's just not true I don't I don't I don't understand the report did not point to pedophiles or pedophile Rings or you know dozens of people roaming around sort of abusing children it wasn't that kind of report at all we wrote what people told us about and all the concerns that they have so they spoke to us about poverty they spoke to us about kids not going to school young mothers a lack of education for everybody lack of housing unemployment when certain conditions like that exist the likelihood of the abuse of children happening it's very likely the neglect and abuse of children is undeniable those facts were lost the importance of the propaganda by the television programs was to create a situation in which the government could act to control those communities you put up pretty provocative signs in these prescribed Aboriginal areas would you put up the same signs here on the Gold Coast in Queensland would you put those signs up in places where there is child abuse middle class Australia working class Australia white Australia it's a really good question because what you're actually putting to and pointing to is that we should not discriminate about color but we should be actually protecting children let me tell you I live here on the Sunshine Coast and there is Charlie it's quite okay and right here there is no doubt child sexual abuse it's not uh exclusive right of one particular ethnicity or one location so in 2008 the central Australian group of specialists put together a report around the intervention and I suppose one of the major things that we that we found and we wanted to make clear to the government was was it after 11 000 health checks of children that had been performed there's only one child who was found with a health condition that wasn't Otherwise Known and that wasn't a section assault case so if if Mel Brook wants to dismiss this report written by experts in their field working on the ground and I suppose you can but his dismissal is false why did Gregory Andrews appear anonymously this is a man who in effect worked for you why did he appear on the ABC's late line program calling himself or them calling him an anonymous youth worker why did that happen I don't know why you would put the question to me because I thought didn't he Brief you before that no he didn't brief you no the Parliamentary record tells a different story Broughton Parliament that Gregory Andrews provided the information of his notes to my office [Music] now the program used footage showing Aboriginal children sniffing petrol didn't it it did they went from urijulu the the petrol sniffing footage came from a community called Docker river which is hundreds of kilometers away but it was represented as from members of the matajulu community complained to the ABC about the program an inquiry confirmed that footage claiming to be from matajulu had come from elsewhere disguising a government official as a youth worker was called unfortunate but Justified because he said he feared for his safety the complaint was rejected the ABC declined my offer to be interviewed for this film the people of muttajulu and others complained to the ABC and an internal inquiry of a Kind was held yes and which announced that the program was exonerated what what's your view of the process that exonerated the program well I think it's uh it's farcical really I mean it's a bit like the police investigating their own behavior it may be a perfectly proper process internally to do that but then to rely on it as exonerating the uh the program makers seems to me to be going a step much too far when this was exposed did you get an apology from the ABC we had no warning no apology nothing and we I think we left hanging in the air as though we're still guilty one of the facts that saddened uh the members of the murugulo community was a failure of the media to recognize that the extremely lurid allegations that had been made against them were false and were found to be false by the Australian crime commission no one ever uh took the time to clear the name and the reputation of the murder Jeweler Community again I say the Australian crime commission which you gave special powers to investigated and found no evidence this is just simply incorrect be completely completely annihilated Us in what he did that intervention was completely disgustingly wrong I I certainly accept that the intervention with wrong-headed was stupid I said it at the time I maintained that point it was based on a deception wasn't it well more than that it was based on a lie good what was the LIE well the lie was that basically to put it cut it short that Aboriginal men were basically all child molesters Aboriginal men I think are the most demonized people in Australia and I'm constantly saddened by that because that's my father that's you know my elders that's you know Aboriginal men I I deal with every single day it saddens me that they're painted as as these rapists and people who can't control themselves I think that's just absolutely disgusting and it shows that these people who write these things don't know the Aboriginal men I know they obviously haven't spent a lot of time with Aboriginal people in communities I think that's what really saddens me because it affects Aboriginal women as well because that's our that's our husbands that's our sons that's our uncles um it's really disgusting and it is a myth it's not true I mean we've got a lot of racist policies in our past but this one was the mother of them all and in order to launch that policy the federal government with the assistance of the opposition the labor party at the time suspended the racial discrimination act in order to bring it in and there is only one reason why you suspend a racial discrimination act and that is if you intend to do something that's racist and both parties admitted it was racist the United Nations has branded it racist but they did it anyway I'm damn sure if so South Africa had proposed to introduce similar legislation there that would have been absolute outrage in the rest of the world and yet here in Australia we can do it get away with it and nobody seems to think that there's anything inherently wrong with it that's the bit I don't get what is the point of imposing something like this on you I find it extremely suspicious that you know I remember a few years before the intervention was placed in central Australia watching huge helicopters fly over our homeland in with these massive big I don't know what they were I can only assume they were looking for minerals and they just fly over it's like watching a film from outer space these helicopters flying over with this big massive antenna-like things hanging from them then you know a few years later the government comes you know crashing into the module Community to crash to sort of obliterate these pedophilia rings that actually weren't there and then they moved then they bring in the intervention and it and then amazingly they find this huge amount of uranium and precious soils in central Australia and it all coincides around the same time and I you know people might think I'm being a bit paranoid but you can't help but be paranoid when all of those dots are sort of connecting to each other in 2007 a campaign called top end secret 2 was launched by the Northern Territory government to explore for new mineral deposits according to an industry survey the Northern Territory is the New Frontier of Australian mining foreign [Music] it was here in Jay Creek the one Journey ended for me and another began it was 1969. my newspaper in London had sent me back to discover my own country how ironic and I was in for a shock this was a photograph I took at the time Jay Creek was secret Australia a government Reserve where people were forced to live in unimaginable conditions [Music] this was a holding cell it was from places like Jay Creek the children were taken in their thousands by police and welfare officials they became known as The Stolen generation [Music] [Applause] the policy was assimilation it was influenced by the Eugenics movement which had links to fascism one official famously described it as breeding out the black it was genocide Lorna feijo and her childhood friends would hide in fear of being taken away and I said be careful about taking brown skin babies away from their mothers black mothers another black mother so we used to go and we made a cubby house down the creek we dug a hole and we used to practice and we used to run then put when Aberdeen boy was cockatoo what they call cockatoo he had to watch yet and he had to cover us up with leaves from the gum trees and sure enough one day the horses came Galloping and we ran down then we hid they we hid down in that Creek and that Amazon boy was putting all the leaves over us as if nothing happened and that cracked the stock whip around him and he thought he was frightened he put panicking he ran back to the square camp and the welfare men found us and took us and mothers were screaming and crying and crying and hanging onto the truck when the driver was away oh yeah your mother must have been she threatened for me to the day she died do you miss your mother a lot yeah oh yeah cried nearly every night we all used to cuddle up each other [Laughter] [Music] known as The Bungalow this is where many children were taken from the 1920s to the 1950s where they were easy prey for sexual predators Australia's darkest secret is that rape and sexual exploitation were used by whites against black women and children today when Aboriginal people set this history against the false claims that led to the intervention the irony is bitter the time has now come for the nation to turn a new page a new page in Australia's history by writing the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the Future we apologize for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians it was not an apology on the murder the rapes the poisoning and everything of Aboriginal Australia or the First Nations as people prefer to be known now it was an apology for stealing so many of our kids with the same intention of assimilating them and making sure there is no continuity of Aboriginal traditional practices in Australia Mr Rogers prime minister you broke a long silence in Australia you apologize to the Aboriginal people for the theft of their children you said and I quote it's not sentiment that makes history it's our actions that make history what what did you mean exactly I think with the apology two things were necessary one was a deeply if you like spiritual or emotional transaction between indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians and that was simply but profoundly to say sorry it may sound trite to some I've heard it described as gesture politics but if you have deeply wronged people or deeply wronged a person in your own life you cannot begin to conduct a normal relationship until you've set wrongs to rights at that level but the wrongs did continue within a year of rud's apology 37 Aboriginal children were taken from their families allegedly for neglect in the town of lightning Ridge New South Wales four days old they just went to the hospital mother's arms down back in history this is what was done with our little stolen generation children [Music] a three-year campaign by the families in lightning Ridge saw almost all their children returned but they're the lucky ones all over Australia black children are being taken from their homes many are given to whites and lose all contact with their Aboriginal families this is a new stolen generation it was actually only a fortnight ago I received a call from community members who are in distress who said that the police and child protection agency had actually turned up at a family's house in the morning while the family was having breakfast barged into the house taken a three-year-old child put it in a plane put it in a car and driven at 700 kilometers away from that community the grandmother who was in that house was wailing chasing the car throwing rocks at the car and couldn't believe saying over and over again that this is what this is what was done to us before when the stolen generation was at its height this is this is happening again in the north of Queensland almost 200 babies were removed from their mothers in the hospital it's an hours after giving birth these babies are removed by the by the Child Protection Services no explanation about the process why this has happened what their rights are how they might be able to contest this what they might be able to do left crying left crying for their children the author of this report Olga Haven was sacked by the Northern Territory government following its publication the report revealed that in one year the government spent almost 80 million dollars on surveillance and removing children compared with just five hundred thousand dollars on supporting these impoverished families to 80 million dollars a year in action and actually what what is called Child Protection but these are the people who take children that's right take children away on the assumption that there is child abuse across the Aboriginal community in fact your report shows that the Northern Territory where the government aimed its guns and described as the minister did child abuse in Unthinkable numbers is among the lowest in Australia that's correct it's pretty sobering and I think the other thing that's more than sobering that's uh that's with all respect that's some that's a major deception talking to people they tell me how much they appreciated your apology but almost to a man and woman they said nothing had changed in fact many of them had said the situate said the situation was worse I am not going to send up here and sort of wave some flag and say guess what it's all fun and dandy haven't fixed it okay I'm not into that look I've used quite the Great Australian profits that's [ __ ] okay it seems to me that the good news might also fall into the category of [ __ ] why did you say immediately I think after the apology and you were very emphatic about this in fact your words were I want to be blunt about this there'll be no compensation on the question of compensation for injuries suffered directly what I've said also to Aboriginal leaders is that I don't rule that out at all as a member of parliament I just don't Aboriginal people once more had their expectations raised but what followed was treachery that's the constant pattern of black and white relations in Australia raise the expectation and then betray that trust with treachery [Music] this betrayal runs deep in Australian political life with its connections to powerful interests such as the mining industry [Music] the Australian mining sector is enormously profitable it makes profits of around a billion dollars a week it makes profits of of just under 52 billion dollars a year and it's a vast amount of money and what you basically have is large companies making massive profits from minerals that they didn't make on land that they don't own and that's called smart economics that's called 21st century Australian Economic Development in the 1980s the labor party pledged national land rights to the Aboriginal people they call this Australia's greatest moral cause the mining Lobby went on the attack with propaganda like this through Aboriginal land claims your right of access to up to 50 percent of Western Australia could be taken away you think it's fair that less than three percent of our population should claim ownership of up to 50 of our land four-page newspaper ads you thought it was your home think again targeting iconic places in Australia a beautiful picture of a beautiful place have you loved this take a good look now your kids mightn't get a chance to Aboriginal people will lock it up white people won't won't be able to go there you'll need permits to go to your favorite Beach you won't be able to swim or fish at your favorite Beach because the blacks will take it it was extraordinary it was bald crude and sadly effective once elected the government of Bob Hawk gave in Universal land rights were abandoned in 2010 the mining industry spent 22 million dollars on a campaign to stop a proposed tax on their super profits what to all those who love Western Australia say at that tax [Applause] ES the campaign succeeded labor prime minister Julia Gillard reduced the tax to almost nothing the revenue lost is estimated at 60 billion dollars enough to fund land rights and to end Aboriginal poverty this is Robert eggington a warrior of the nunga people of Western Australia whose resistance defies a history of dispossession here he speaks uncompromisingly to a white audience I've experienced dark sarcasm and racism from Authority since my early school years to my adulthood I don't believe in nationalism it's offensive and it gives the false sense of identity of those who have stolen lands of which they now believe that they so rightfully inherit Robert has pursued those who denigrate and exploit Aboriginal people at a remarkable Healing Center in Perth called dumbartung Robert and his wife Selena celebrate Aboriginal culture and history and here they battle a modern disease called suicide they lost their own son Bob this way I would say that within the last um last two weeks here in Perth we would have suffered and we would have experienced seven to eight suicides ranging from young children as young as 14 15 years of age the history of colonization and What's led up to this epidemic today is reflective of the policies of the governments and in particular the stolen Generations certainly incarceration and the continued incarceration of of young Aboriginal men would be a key factor and I think with a lot of young Aboriginal men the loss of identity culture and their Heritage plays a key role in the sense of where their self-worth is diminished and their value in a society that doesn't value their culture or them as even human beings for a lot of our young people they don't see any hope at the end or any light at the end of the tunnel or any hope within their future and so for many of them the answer is not to want to be here anymore Robert and Selena have made this a memorial room and covered it with photographs of Aboriginal people and their families all touched by lives cut short all of the people to whom come here come here to you know be able to emotionally feel a sense of connection and belonging they're able to and have a place where they can just literally cry here there's another photograph here of our of our grandson he's a very spirited little boy he lost his dead four years ago through suicide and this very room here is a is a memorial is a tribute to his dad our only son it was like when our son died all our hopes and dreams died with him but that's not the case because here is our beautiful little boy and this is where we see our hopes and dreams now with our little grandson as well as the other two grandchildren that we have we believe that when out comes our time um to pass on we get we go back to the Earth and we come part of that Earth again so the cycles of of humanity and Earth become one and uh and we're not separated so you know if you've got a um a belief system let's say like a western belief system you going to be saved outside of this world in a place called Heaven well of course you can do with this land as you like you can plunder it pillage it rape it and destroy it it is of no consequence but in our culture and in our laws if we were to to to to harm the land and to hurt that land the way in which it's being done today we would be punished spiritually very severely for that white Australia doesn't have a sense of belonging to this land it only has a sense of belonging to the establishments and its institutions and its cities it's built here it doesn't understand this country no more whispering in our minds no more whispering in our arms just Rise Up To Break These Chains stop these killing games foreign [Music] at Christmas one less loved one on birthday but that smile won't be forgotten [Music] can you never fail [Music] in other Western countries indigenous people still suffer but unlike Australia historical treaties have been signed that begin to recognize their right to self-determination Australia is the only developed country repeatedly condemned for the abuse of its indigenous people now and then Australian government's talk of reconciliation an acceptable idea that hasn't built decent homes or got rid of blindness in children and malnutrition and dickensian diseases it hasn't stopped young people suiciding and it hasn't stopped a land grab that began more than two centuries ago like apartheid South Africa reconciliation is not possible without Justice and this will only happen when the first Australians are offered a genuine treaty that shares this rich country its land its resources and opportunities the benefit then will be mutual for until we give back their nationhood we can never claim our own no more whispering in our minds no more whispering in our hearts we're gonna rise up to Break These Chains stop these killing games [Music] so the night was blessed with evil it has the soft rain became the full [Music] walking through the park at midnight coastal town on the early morning [Music] shots rang out in the Darkness [Music] Blood on the ground where you live gonna rise up for you now for the restore [Music] but no more whispering in our minds no more whispering in our hearts let's Rise Up To Break These Chains stop these killings we'll miss him for the game today [Music] when they run for the black and white the colors of kaduga hear those Mighty magpies so let's all join the line of Honor where's our glass to came the son of a father a child of a mother and a friend [Music] sisters and a brother [Music] but no more whispering in our minds [Music] no more whispering in our hearts let's Rise Up To Break These Chains stop these killing games let's Rise Up To Break These Chains stop these killing games [Music]