A 'Black and White' History of Australian Race Relations

Huntington analyses Craig Lahiff's 'Black and White' (2002). This film 'tells the true story Max Stuart, a half-caste Aboriginal man convicted of the rape and murder of a nine year old girl in 1959. Stuart was passing through a small South Australian community when Aboriginal trackers, it is suggested, "pinned" the crime on him to avoid having it pinned on a local Aborigine. The local police then bludgeoned him into signing a confession.'