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Excerpt from the film 'Queensland Dossier' describing the Qld govt's attacks on women's rights and aboriginal land rights.

1. Women's Rights.
2. Charles Porter, Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs on self-determination and "the Acts"

Image: Police surround democratic rights activists on election day 11 Nov 1977.

Qld Dossier -- A documentary shot around Queensland in 1978 linking Bjelke Petersen’s ban on street marches with the State’s repression of opposition to uranium mining and Land Rights.

QUEENSLAND DOSSIER
Produced by Jeune Pritchard and Luc Pelissier
Super 8 footage: Marian Redmond
Additional footage: Megan McMurchy
Videotape editor: Stephen Jones
Editing Facilities: N.S.W. Institute of Technology, Media Centre
Graphics: Shirley Martin
Made with assistance from the Australian Film Commission, 1978
Completed February 1979, Sydney

Original format is 3/4-inch U-matic BVU (high band) colour video, first released in early 1979 in Sydney.

Video restoration by Stephen Jones 2014.