2015 | Australia | Documentary

Bobby Brown Homelands - Living With The Legacy Of British Nuclear Testing

  • English English 5 mins
  • Director | Kim Mavromatis , Quenten Agius
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Kim Mavromatis

STATUS: Released

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In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Australian government authorised British Nuclear testing at Emu Field and Maralinga in Outback South Australia. We journey with Antikirrinya Elder, Ingkama Bobby Brown to his homelands in outback South Australia where he explains the legacy of living with British Nuclear testing - how he witnessed the first tests on the Australian mainland at Emu Field (1953) and experienced the devastating affects of radioactive fallout on his family, people and country. This is the first time Bobby has spoken out about what he witnessed when he was a boy - what happened to his family and country and the people who went missing - during British Nuclear testing. British Nuclear testing was a breach of the King's Letters Patent, the founding document that established the state of South Australia (1836), which granted Aboriginal people the legal right to occupy and enjoy their land for always. How could they occupy and enjoy their land when their land was being blown up and irradiated by nuclear fallout.

Nuclear Testing Environmental Justice Indigenous Voices Historical Documentary
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