Kuradji Dreaming: on community, respect and understanding

The Sandon Point radio doco is finally being broadcast on ABC Radio National’s 360 program!
On the wireless: at 2pm on Radio National in your capital city.
Online: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/360 where if you miss it you can listen online or podcast it. 

In 2000, a mostly white community, at Sandon Point near Wollongong, rallied under an Aboriginal flag to try to stop a multi-million dollar housing development, planned for the Sandon Point headland. Some years before, the ancient remains of an Aboriginal 'clever man' or kuradji, had been discovered on the same site, and indigenous activists and local surfers joined forces to oppose the development. Despite years of court challenges and protests, the housing estate went ahead - but down on the beach, in the shadows of the looming steel-and-glass housing estate, the Aboriginal flag still flies. The Aboriginal tent embassy is the richest humpy on the beach, and the legacy of shared community understanding remains.