Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government.

Looks at the 1967 referendum, where over 90% of voters agreed that Aborigines be counted in the census, effectively acknowledging Aboriginal people as citizens within their own country.

A look at the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe in Central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of urban expansion.

Bread and Dripping
Four women recount their lives during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s. Tibby Whalan, Eileen Pittman, Beryl Armstrong and Mary Wright describe their struggles to survive and maintain families when faced with widespread unemployment, evictions and hardship.
The film makes extensive use of archival footage and photographs from the 1930s to 
present a unique insight into the lives of women in Australia. Made in 1981, the documentary has been restored from 16mm original film materials.
Yorky Billy
This film by Kim McKenzie is a portrait of a disappearing way of life in the Northern Territory outback. At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the NT, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as "Yorky Billy") reflects on his life. 

Directed by Tracy Moffatt and shot entirely in a studio, this is the haunting story of a middle-aged Aboriginal woman who nurses her white mother.

The mysterious Torres Strait Island turtleshell masks collected last century are unique and 
irreplaceable, yet none are now left in the 
hands of traditional owners. They are all in 
foreign museums.

Take a journey through the NT top end to discover how traditional culture and knowledge is being incorporated into remote schools to create a twoway learning mode