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Sep 21, 2017ba_library rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Cute movie about 4 Aboriginal girls who sing together. Based on a true story, the girls audition at a talent show in some rural location near Melbourne in the late 1960s. They sing a Merl Haggard song. The crowd is unfriendly because they are black. The talent show organizer recognizes their talent and tries to encourage them when they lose the talent show. One of the girls finds an ad for auditions for singing groups to perform in Vietnam for U.S. troops. They hit up the talent show organizer for help. He convinces them that they need to be a soul act like the Supremes – much more popular than old country tunes. The girls decide to recruit their cousin who sang with them as children. She is a fair-skinned Aboriginal who was taken from her home as a child – it was an Australian practice to remove fair skinned Aboriginals and place them in white homes with white families. Watch the movie Rabbit- Proof Fence for a film on this subject. The Australian government classified Aboriginal people as flora and fauna during this era which makes this film interesting being set in the late 1960s. American African Americans are fighting for civil rights, Australian Aboriginals are still being classified as some sort of native plants. The girls go to Vietnam and perform, at times without any sort of protection. The film was written by one of the girls nephews and in the bonus material they interview the original women about their experience.