One Mind, One Heart | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Larissa Behrendt uncovers the extraordinary story of the three landmark Yirrkala Bark petitions that sparked the flame t | dG1fLUFTd2tEdlJFVDg

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00:00Every Yolngu person knows their stories.

00:12Yirrkala barks reflect reverberations of history.

00:18From the time that Australia was invaded Aboriginal people have asked that our views be listened

00:28to.

00:29This is not just a painting, this is politics.

00:33These are political tools, these are political statements.

00:39When it first came, the mining company, they started to go in and just dig the land without

00:48consulting the Yolngu people.

00:53When Howard was elected Prime Minister of Australia, I felt we were entering a period

00:58of danger.

00:59Wave after wave after wave, they were just destroying us.

01:05Horrible control mechanisms to put Aboriginal people back in their place and that was a

01:12terrible time.

01:13We lost everything.

01:15One thing we forget is how brutal colonisation was.

01:19How brutal it was.

01:20We have to do this for Dad because he's the only one left and, you know, we have to bring

01:34it back home before he passes on.

01:38And there's something different with the bark petitions.

01:41They were designed to be sent away but of this object surfacing sort of seeming to want

01:49to go home.

01:50We need to educate the country on the history of the past and that's the only point where

01:56we can join hands and walk on together.

01:59We're hoping for treaty.

02:03This is the big one, the treaty.

02:04With one mind, one heart, for all nations, Joa and Yirrita.