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TALKING BROKEN. A PORTRAIT OF THE TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS

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The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s “other” indigenous minority. Unllike the Aborigines, little was heard of them until 1988 when they made a brief claim for independence. Since first conatct in 1871, they have been controlled by benign but effective colonisers, which has left these islands between Papua New Guinea and the far northern tip of Australia curiously poised between first an...
Display date:
1990
Location:
Australia
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MovingImage
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Contributors:
Director: Frances Calvert
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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