The white-seared landscape: Walkabout as iconic Australian counterculture

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Jack McDonald

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Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, a 1971 Australian New Wave film, has ignited and continues to ignite a deep desire in its audience to ruminate and engage with Aboriginal political discourse. This seminal work emerged out of social unrest for the injustices performed on Aborigines at the time, and made a definitive mark on how Australian’s think about race relations, intercultural understanding, and the place of empathy and thoughtfulness in a shifting and vibrant political landscape. Through the film, Roeg highlights the importance of sacred land and cultural heritage to the Aboriginal people, and the obligation white Australia has to respect and appreciate such a deep and fundamental component of the continent’s history.

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The white-seared landscape: Walkabout as iconic Australian counterculture. (2018). NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 81-83. https://doi.org/10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1480