What Have You Done With My Country?

Duration: 26

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1975

Creator: Paramount Pictures

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: The Australian aboriginal culture is contrasted with modern Australia to show how modernization is changing the lives of its earliest inhabitants. Poetry, chants, aboriginal myths, and rock paintings tell how these people loved the land and hunted and fished only to eat. In 1770, Europeans arrived and during the next two centuries slaughtered kangaroos and koala bears to make way for sheep and cattle. They exploited the land, drove cars, and built cities. There are scenes of oil drilling, stockbrokers yelling at the Sydney stock exchange, and factories pouring out wastes that pollute rivers and streams. Today the aborigines must depend on church missions for survival. They can never return to the simple existence they once knew., Contrasts aboriginal life in Australia with the noise and pollution brought by European colonization and development.

Complete Record: The Australian aboriginal culture is contrasted with modern Australia to show how modernization is changing the lives of its earliest inhabitants. Poetry, chants, aboriginal myths, and rock paintings tell how these people loved the land and hunted and fished only to eat. In 1770, Europeans arrived and during the next two centuries slaughtered kangaroos and koala bears to make way for sheep and cattle. They exploited the land, drove cars, and built cities. There are scenes of oil drilling, stockbrokers yelling at the Sydney stock exchange, and factories pouring out wastes that pollute rivers and streams. Today the aborigines must depend on church missions for survival. They can never return to the simple existence they once knew., Contrasts aboriginal life in Australia with the noise and pollution brought by European colonization and development.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.