It's been almost fifty years since a teenage David Gulpilil Iluminated screens worldwide with his breakout role in
Walkabout. It was one of the first times we'd seen an Aboriginal person cust in a significant role and only four years after Holt's referendum to alter the constitution and give Indigenous people citizenship and, subsequently, the right to vote.
Gulpilil quickly became the face of the Indigenous world to white Australian audiences. Charisma. Good looks, A competent, strong, mysterious man starring in films runging from Crocodile Dundee to Rabbil-Proof Fence.