Biting the Clouds

Duration: 60 minutes

Dr Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the perspective of her people, the Badtjala of K'gari (Fraser Island). Biting the Clouds is a confronting and provocative examination of the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium, with the aim of making Aboriginals a compliant source of labour - and the 'solution' of displacing them to K’gari.