This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Commonwealth Games Land Rights protest in Brisbane in 1982. In 2012 BIMA made 30th Anniversary of the Commonwealth Games Protests 1982. We present the film here on Yuggera and Torubul country – land never ceded.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this film contains people who have died.
In a city where governments are already spending money in preparation for the Olympic Games in 2032, we could do well to remember so much unfinished business on aboriginal land rights, health and education. Not to mention that land is still being taken on Yuggera land at Deebing Creek and on Wangan and Jagalingou country at the Adani coal mine site. Shame on the government, shame on the parliament, shame. – Ian Curr, Editor, 6 Nov 2022.