Uncovering the brutal truth about justice at Uluru
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By Jeff Sparrow
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The first film ever shot of Uluru was taken during the exhumation of an Indigenous man gunned down by a policeman. Itâs a reminder of the relationship between colonial violence and Australiaâs most iconic locales. In a sense, theyâre all crime scenes.
In
Return to Uluru, award-winning historian Mark McKenna highlights the recency of dispossession in the Northern Territory and Central Australia. After all, the Coniston Massacre â in which as many as 150 Aboriginal people were murdered â took place in 1928, just after Don Bradman made his first-class debut.