Tasmania's wild west

Australia, 1988

Film
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Episode of Series “Jack Absalom’s outback Australia series”.
Just eleven years before European settlement at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, Captain James Cook had his only real meeting with Australian Aborigines at Bruny Island just off the southern coast of Tasmania. It was a meeting destined to change the fate of two distinct groups in the human race.

Credits

co-producers/directors

Rio

Rhonda Mabey

production company

Sorena

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1988

Appears in

Jack Absalom's outback Australia series

Group of items

Jack Absalom's outback Australia series

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324431

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Tasmania

History → Aboriginal Australians - History

History → Australia - History

Places → Tasmania

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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