The remainder of the film follows Duranga Manika as she observes how white people are disempowered through poverty, are treated unfairly by the police - often with brutality and indifference, experience arbitrary dispossession, government inaction on white issues, white tokenism, white children being taken from their families only to be taught the values of the majority culture and white people being relocated because the government needs their home for "something".
The latest manifestation of this is in a 'documentary' presented by Duranga Manika ( Michelle Torres). They are expected to follow the laws and customs of the colonisers and their lifestyle is seen through the patronizing eyes of the majority culture. Aboriginal people have assumed power, taken all of the available land and have mostly confined whites to suburban ghettos. ' Barbecue Area'".Īfter around 200 years of Aboriginal occupation, white Australians have become a minority. The Aboriginal Australian explorers approach the group and the expedition's leader asks them, "What do you call this place"? One of the Europeans replies, "Er. In this land, they discover a number of European Australians engaged in stereotypical European Australian activities. The opening scene depicts a group of Aboriginal Australians in military uniforms coming ashore in a land they have not previously been to. Babakiueria revolves around a role-reversal, whereby it is Aboriginal Australians who have invaded and colonised the fictitious country of Babakiueria, a land that has long been inhabited by white natives, the Babakiuerians.