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We have Survived (Excerpt)

Linda Burney.

Linda Burney speaking on the White Settlement and the treatment of Aboriginal people at that time.

Created:

1988

Date Added:

21 June 2002

Source:

Film Australia January 1988

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

26 secs

Transcript

LINDA BURNEY
Chair, Reconciliation Committee of New South Wales, and former President of the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group

Within 9 months of the white settlers, the white invaders, coming into this country, two-thirds of the Aboriginal population - right where you're sitting - were dead. Right where you're sitting you can almost guarantee that there have been black bodies lying there, riddled with smallpox or riddled with bullets. The end result was the same.

Speaking in January 1988, in We Have Survived, Film Australia.