Couldn't Be Fairer [SEP] narrative location
Couldn't Be Fairer
Couldn't Be Fairer is a 1984 Australian documentary film directed by Dennis O'Rourke and narrated by Aboriginal activist Mick Miller, which paints a disturbing portrait of Aboriginal life in Australia's Deep South, the northern state of Queensland. The title of the film references a 1983 statement about Aboriginal Australians made by Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of Queensland at the time: "We treat them the same as everyone else – couldn't be fairer."
Synopsis.
"Couldn't Be Fairer"
Eye Health Program team on visits to North Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reserves.
While visiting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Miller and Grogan assisted people to sign onto electoral rolls, so confirming their reputation with the Queensland Government, and Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen for being trouble-makers and political dissenters:
"Couldn't Be Fairer".
In 1984 Miller wrote and narrated a film named "Couldn't Be Fairer" (the expressed point of view of the then Premier of Queensland) about that state's