Director David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
Country/Production Austalia / USA
Release 1983
Length 59 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL
Location Australia, New South Wales
Ethnic Group Aborigines
Collection MacDougall
Order No RAI-200.146
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An account of Aboriginal people steering their way through the often frustrating processes of official decision-making, as it is seen from their viewpoint far away from Canberra. Gordon Smith, head of the co-operative that runs ‘Collum Collum’ Station in northern New South Wales, and Sunny Bancroft, its manager, are trying to get a government loan to stock the property with breeding cattle so that it can become financially independent. This means preparing budgets, arguing their case and keeping up the pressure. The hardest thing, always, is to find out what is going on in Canberra.
