Made for Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute with the assistance of the Australia Foundation for Culture and the Humanities.
In 1952, the Aboriginal people living in the Great Victoria Desert were moved south, out of their ancestral homelands, to Yalata on the coast. Sixteen months later the British Government destroyed parts of these lands during a series of devastating nuclear bomb tests". This video, combining archival with contemporary material, and featuring the art of Jonathon Kimuntjara Brown, tells the story of these people, who have now won back the right to enter their ancestral country. Also, in 1994 the British and Australian Governments agreed to pay compensation to the Maralinga Tjarutja people for damage caused by the nuclear testing and to decontaminate all areas affected by radiation.—Official Summary