In the gutter, no way?

Bobby McLeod, Marlene Cummins and Reg King recount their experiences of growing up as First Nations people in a white society that didn’t recognise their history or respect their rights. As recovering alcoholics, they discuss the factors that enabled them to overcome their alcoholism, when, as stigmatised outcasts in their own land, there was no place to turn to.

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Credits

producer/director

Rhoda Roberts

production company

Australia. Special Broadcasting Service

Duration

00:29:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1990

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302939

Language

English

Subject categories

Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Alcohol use

History → History

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1990

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