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We used to call them Blackboys

Australia, 2004
film

Using photographic images, this story of the grass trees growing on the ranges outside Wangaratta becomes a poetic meditation on how a person’s ideas on..

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The Land is your mother

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Making of Bush Mechanics

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Heartlands: diversity or dust

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Then and Now

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