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Hello and welcome to The Panel show with your hosts Prof. Isaac Kirkland and Prof. Calen Sayers. The Mabo movie is a drama biography of Eddie Koiki Mabo and his fight for Indigenous Australian rights in Australia by challenging the high court and later winning the case. This was a tv movie drama that was released in 2012. It was directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Darren Dale and Miranda Dear.
Eddie Koiki Mabo was born as a Torres Strait on Murray Island. His mother died giving birth and his dad was sent to prison. He later went to Western Australia and found a girl he later married. Bonita Neehow. Eddie Mabo has also become a famous Indigenous Australian as due to his fight for Indigenous land rights. During his fight, he challenged
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In this movie, the director seems to have a large focus on the inequality toward Indigenous Australian people and how they are treated as a lesser class than white Indigenous Australian people. This is shown through perspective view shots in many scenes of the movie, for example when Eddie Mabo was at the pub, when Eddie Mabo was working on the boat and when Eddie Mabo was also denied access by the government to see his dying father. These are all scenes of inequality throughout the movie all towards Eddie Mabo.
The movie educates people on the fact of inequality back in the 1900’s between Indigenous Australians and white Australians and about the biggest case in Australia which has changed our history. This movie shows the viewers about some of the injustice the Indigenous Australians suffered due to white Australian people's actions because of their colour and race. The response that was intended was to feel bad for all of the constant injustice that the Indigenous Australians were receiving due to the actions of white Australian
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Eddie and his ancestors have been living on Murray island forever and have been passed down generation to generation. When the British came in and invaded Australia everything somehow became theirs. The director is conveying to the audience that we need to stand up for what’s right and that we have to treat others as they are our friend no matter the colour. The director is also showing Australia what we used to look like back in the 1900’s and to tell them to learn from our past.
The Eddie Mabo movie shows a great and accurate point of view in the issues that indigenous people were facing in the 1900’s through the life of Eddie Mabo’s eyes; a famous Australian who took the State Government to court over the rights of his land. The movie’s continuously showing the struggles that Eddie Mabo went through throughout his life just because of his skin colour. Rachel Perkins has effectively shown the indigenous issues that a lot of Indigenous Australians were facing during the time of the
From an early age, Mabo was taught about his family’s land. In 1959 he moved to Townsville and settled down with his wife and children. He started becoming more involved in the community around Townsville, becoming an activist in the 1967 Referendum campaign, helping to found the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service and co-founding and directing Townsville’s black community school. Mabo’s motivation towards land rights didn’t start until 1974, when he was working as a gardener at James Cook University. Two historians, Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds recall a
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Eddie Mabo’s success at land rights has reshaped and rewrote Australian society and history. Mabo was born a Torres Strait Islander and a member of the Meriam people on Murray (Mer) Island, 1936. He went on to be an Indigenous community leader and human rights activist after marrying Bonita Nehow in 1959 and joining the Torres Strait Islander community, consequently becoming director of the Townsville Black Community School in 1973. Patrick Hatch, reporter for Herald Sun Newspaper 2013, reiterated Mabo’s reaction once told his land on Mer belonged to the Crown and not his family by Professor’s Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds, co-workers from James Cook University where Mabo worked as a gardener in 1974. “Everybody kn...
...sed in the first scene; the white family appear more superior over the aboriginal family, music, such as the Celtic music used in early scenes to foreground the idea of white settlement and the reluctantcy to incorporate any values or ways of life that the original inhabitants had. Her powerful dialogue seen in ‘this land is mine’ scene, which significantly empowers to audience to question whether the white settlers have failed to incorporate any of the ways of life and values of the Indigenous people. Finally, Perkins’ fine editing skills allows audiences to physically see the contrasts of the two families and their beliefs, values and ways of life. From the film, audiences can learn, and also forces them to question whether they have failed to learn from the original habitants of the land they live in today.
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