'Walkabout'

'It is vital at this time to break down myths and stereotypes that surround some of the blind Anglocentric thinking and attitudes that characterize 'the culture of forgetting', as Robert Manne has described it. The binary of the 'black armband' and the 'white blindfold' needs urgent discussion. Setting Nicholas Roeg's "Walkabout" (1970) as a VCE film text can be seen as part of that polemic.'