''Australia Daze'' is a 1988 Australian
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
that takes a look at how various
Australians
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spent
Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port Ja ...
1988.
Overview
''Australia Daze'' is a combination of footage shot by 29 different camera crews in various locations around Australia from midnight to midnight on 26 January 1988, the
Bicentenary of European settlement in Australia.
The film includes footage of the Aboriginal Protest of the Bicentenary, where more than 40,000 people marched through
Sydney
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in the largest march in Sydney since the
Vietnam Moratorium
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.
Awards
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1988 films
1988 documentary films
Australian documentary films
Documentary films about Aboriginal Australians
1980s English-language films
English-language documentary films
1980s Australian films
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