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DIRECTOR: Alessandro Cavadini

On January 26th 1972, Prime Minister Billy McMahon declared that under a liberal Government land rights would never be granted to Aborigines. In the dead of night four young men stuck a beach umbrella into the lawn outside Parliament House and sat under it.

That single action set off a chain of events which reverberated around the world. It marked the beginning of a new and more radical chapter in the struggle for justice as a young, angry generation of black Australians established they weren’t going to wait any longer. Watched by ASIO and harassed by the police the Embassy was the beginning of a movement that led to the establishment of the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service and the National Black Theatre and a tide of support from around Australia which led to the grant of native title land rights. NINGLA A-NA is the only film shot within the Embassy and close to the people who created it. This hard hitting film tells the story from inside the fight for justice.