HERITAGE FIGHT

Broome is a town in the Kimberley region, one of Australia's great wilderness areas. This is where the head of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, and Woodside, a multi billion-dollar company and Australia's largest liquid natural gas producers, decided to install the second largest liquified natural gas plant in the world.

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The Kimberley region in Western Australia became the scene of a major struggle by Aboriginal people to protect their land from a huge development planned by the conservative Premier of WA, Colin Barnett, and the oil and gas corporation, Woodside. With government support, Woodside planned to build one of the largest liquified natural gas plants in the world, in the Kimberley wilderness.

The film questions, listens and quotes scientists, activists, politicians and businessmen, as well as the Goolarabooloo people, to bring a broad perspective to this issue. The role of the citizens of Broome is also depicted: it was a battle in which the Aboriginal people and the towns-people fought hand in hand, and the Goolarabooloo would not have won the battle without their support.

On what the citizens of nearby Broome call "Black Tuesday", 120 policemen came from Perth to end the protesters' "blockade", to allow Woodside to begin exploration work although it hadn't acquired all legal approvals. History is made in front of the camera, as we observe the clash between protesters and the police, and witness abusive arrests and the use of force.

Written and Directed by Eugenie Dumont
Producers – Yoon-Seok Nam and Eugenie Dumont
Director of Photography – Eugenie Dumont
Editor – Marie Le Genissel
Sound – Guillaume Lorre
Original Music composed by William Gardiner
Keystone Films

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