Aboriginal Australia
“Munda Nyuringu”
The full title of this award making film about Black Australia is “Munda Nyuringu: They have taken the land, they believe it is theirs’, they won’t give it back” It is a unique Aboriginal story of Australia - and is available from this website with profits going back to the Aboriginal people involved - who are still fighting to bring their children up properly, while living in great poverty and dying next to Australia’s richest gold mines. Please make sure their voice is heard widely.
It is a film made by the Aboriginal communities of the Goldfields of Western Australia, and was approved by them prior to release. They gave the film. “Munda Nyringu” is in Wongi, a dialect of Pitjantjatjarra, one of the surviving Aboriginal languages of Australia - with the translation of these two words its subtitle. It is the story of the last great Australian gold rush as told and witnessed by Aborigines - a story that is also that of Australia. It also tells what happened when the UK decided that it would test its atomic bombs in “empty” desert” that is still hunt-gathered by Aborigines.
Every voice in the film is Aboriginal.
It is co-produced and co-directed by Aboriginal Spokesman and Elder Robert Brotho with Janine Roberts, a woman of Irish and British descent. When shown on Australian TV, it was named as film of the week in the Sydney Morning Herald. It was also awarded a unanimous Best Documentary Nomination.
Munda - award winning Aboriginal Film
