“Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television: …

A free PDF of this 1993 essay by Marcia Langton is available on the archived website of Australian Film Commission. It is a discussion of the issues about Aboriginal representation and self-representation, in film and television particularly.

Since it is “unrealistic” to expect that others will stop portraying Aboriginal people in film and television, Langton says that it is important that Aboriginal people “control the means of production and make our own self-representations” wherever possible.  She  writes: “Freedom in the world of film and the arts can only thrive if there is also a strong critique, and in relation to Aboriginal matters, if the critique is anti-colonialist.”