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About 50 years ago, the first European explorers penetrated the densely populated valleys of Papua New Guinea's central highlands. Unaware of the outside world, the highlanders as first thought the strangers were supernatural beings. They were, in fact, the advance guard of an Australian colonial invasions. For the next 40 years, they sought to impose upon the highlanders ideas about how human beings should organise themselves. By the mid 1970s the Australians had left and the highlands formed p

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Cast

Joe Leahy

Production Details

Production Completion
1988

Sales

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Arundel Productions Pty Ltd

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