blackfella

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blackfella

(ˈblækˌfɛlə)

offensive Austral an Aborigine or Black person

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In one scene, the elder Aboriginal man, separated from his country and living in servitude to the violent Mick, warns his young counterpart about the dangers of living without culture and Dreaming lore, as Philomac finds himself falling under Kennedy's insistence that he 'gotta get away from all of that blackfella shit'.

Bad Blood and Bitterness: COLONISATION AND THE WESTERN IN WARWICK THORNTON'S SWEET COUNTRY

You need blackfella welcome and whitefella welcome; you plan to look like welcome walking.

Smoke on the Water: Wood Fire Conference

I'd like to see every blackfella comin' back from university and kickin' every bloodsucking whitefella outta here.

Bulldust, flat tyres and roadkill: a disorderly decolonising fieldwork journey through remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia

This article examines the cultural meanings of palawa kani, or 'Tassie Blackfella Talk,' the recently created Tasmanian Aboriginal language.

Palawa kani and the value of language in aboriginal Tasmania

She describes the social history of the main musical styles of non-ancestral music played in the region, how they mediate aspects of different forms of manhood, and musicians' experiences in an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements, small non-indigenous towns, and tours beyond the musicians' homelands, including how a oslack and blacko ethos shapes understandings of blackfella male and musical activities; regional relatedness and distinctiveness among different communities, kin, and language groupings; the contradiction between imagined and lived blackfella and whitefella engagement; and interactions with urban and non-indigenous musicians.

Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia

Synopsis: Edited and transcribed by Chris Woodland, "Billy the Blackfella from Bourke" is the story of Australia's Billy Gray, who called himself "a blackfella from Bourke" ('blackfella' is an informal term used in Australian English to refer to Indigenous Australians).

Billy the Blackfella from Bourke

Pl: When you've got people coming out calling you nigger, nunga, blackfella, go back to the gutter, and all this, it affects you quite a bit.

talking with australian indigenous clients with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis: finding the context behind the label

Gulpilil plays Charlie, an ageing blackfella who is frustrated by the Australian government's Northern Territory intervention and other intrusive whitefella laws that are being enforced on his remote Australian community.

Charlie's Country

From Blackfella Films comes DNA Nation, an epic story of genetic time travel, written/produced by Jacob Hickey and produced by Darren Dale for SBS.

Australia : Screen Australia invests over $3.8 million in 13 new documentaries

This statement found further support from IN3 who stated, 'They (the company) are not really interested in the blackfella at all.

Negotiating resource agreements: a community perspective on interests, rights and power

BlackFella WhiteFella One Day Hill Pub, 2012 unpaged $19.

Murray, Neil (text) Various School Children (illus.): BlackFella WhiteFella

Hope and the "Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes," homoeroticism in David Malouf's fiction, and blackfella loving.