Fighting for Aboriginal Self-Determination - Forty Years of Policy Conflict in the Kimberley

Across Australia and throughout our colonial history, the space where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet white people has often been fraught and challenging. The self determination of Australia’s First Nations people has been at the mercy of government policy, industry and the politics of the time. For the people of the Kimberley, in far north Western Australia, these influences have played no small part in determining the welfare of Aboriginal people and how they interact with mainstream Australia today.
This series of conversations explores the legacy of government interventions and bureaucracy on Kimberley Aboriginal people, and the resilience that has grown from the struggle to protect their land and human rights.