Dead Heart

Clip 3: ‘I don’t hate Aboriginal people’

3 min 10 sec

Taken from the feature Dead Heart (1996)

Original title classification MA – this clip chosen to be M

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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.

This clip contains medium-level coarse language.

Curator’s clip description

Ray (Bryan Brown) finds David (Ernie Dingo) asleep at a waterhole after both men have spent the night in the desert. Ray talks about his father who was also a Northern Territory policeman, who used to take children from their Aboriginal parents. Ray confronts the escaped prisoner Tjulpu.

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