Catherine Jones

This film is well worth watching for its message alone. The story and the realistic characters telling it, clearly, yet sensitively, make the point of family and country being central factors in defining indigenous identity. The lesson implied is one that our colonial founders and our subsequent Australian history have refused to acknowledge. This is a rallying cry for reconciliation and treaty, make no mistake, but it is a lesson that embraces all of modern Australia where currently inter-cultural turbulence and tensions persist. When will we as a people heed it and act on it? A brilliant film, and I hope it will become an Australian classic. Cathy Jones (elderly WASP).