The position was created in 1992 with bi-partisan support as a direct response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the HREOC National Inquiry into Racist Violence.
Tense and beautiful, Sweet Country is utterly gripping from the first scene, an extreme close - up of white sugar being stirred into black tea and boiling in a billy, while racistviolence occurs off screen, heard but not seen.