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Tent Embassy

Year:		1992
Production Company:		ABC TV Factual Entertainment
Producer:		Frances Peters-Little more credits
Director:		David Sandy more credits
Writer:		Frances Peters-Little more credits
International Sales:		Sales information not current, please contact Screen Australia for enquiries
Status:		Completed
Duration:		58 mins

A provocative analysis of Aboriginal engagement in white politics during the past 20 years. It all began in 1972 with the establishment of a number of tents on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra. In effect, it was an Aboriginal Tent Embassy and so began the metaphor for this black-white political engagement. The program analyses the original political claims which sparked off the early determination to face the government head-on. It also considers the outcome of those claims. That, in turn, has affected contemporary Aboriginal politics which when compared with the early 1970s has taken on a far more passive and personal stance.

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