The Fight For Indigenous Australian Rights In The Movie 'Eddie Mabo'

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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