Cleared Out: First contact in the Western Desert + 'Contact' DVD

Sue DAVENPORT, Peter JOHNSON and Yuwali

Availability: 4 March 2010

2010, pb, 270x225mm, 304pp, b/w illus

Plus 'Contact' DVD, 78 mins version

Martin BUTLER and Bentley DEAN (Director/Producer)
Special book + DVD price of RRP $59.95
ISBN 9780855757106

Availability: DVD with book - Australian rights only

‘Contact’ could be the most profoundly moving film this country has ever made…a movie-going experience I will never forget. — Simon Foster, SBS

This extraordinary documentary looks at some of the last Aborigines to meet the modern world…tell(s) an emotional and historic story with a light touch…beautifully shot. — Garry Maddox, SMH

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians. They had been pursued by patrol officers for several weeks.

Yuwali, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the drama. Her sharp recollections sit alongside the colourful official reports of the patrol.

Multiple perspectives are reveals through one extraordinary episode.

This is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to read and see a first contact encounter in Australia. DVD includes film footage of the 1964 contact with Yuwali's group.