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About the Film
INFRACTIONS is a feature-length artistic documentary turning up to frontline Indigenous cultural workers tarrying with current threats to more than 50% of the Northern Territory of Australia from shale gas fracking.
It features contributions by: Dimakarri ‘Ray’ Dixon (Mudburra); Jack Green (Garawa, Gudanji); Gadrian Hoosan (Garrwa, Yanyuwa); Juliri Ingra (Gooreng Gooreng); Jackie Johnson (Gooreng Gooreng); Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta); Robert O’Keefe (Wambaya); Neola Savage (Gooreng Gooreng); the Sandridge Band, and Professor Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Bunganditj), author of Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law.
In the context of the North of Australia, the pan-Aboriginal land rights era saw the very partial return of land to First Nations from the 1970s - mainly in the remote centre - and gave limited attention to water given the autonomy of Indigenous expertise on arid lands. In the last decade, amidst an unceasing mining boom, neo-paternalistic policies (especially ‘the Northern Territory Emergency Response Intervention’ from 2007) have aimed to reverse investments in remote Aboriginal homelands.
With the lifting of a shale gas fracking moratorium in the Northern Territory in 2018, British, US and homegrown settler mining companies exploit the weakness of Indigenous rights paradigms - explained in the film by critical Indigenous legal theorist Professor Irene Watson - to licence the expansion of a toxic industry across vast, ancient underground water systems.
