Golden Nightmare - Sypnosis
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For the Chinese, gold symbolises wealth, power and bliss. But for the aboriginals in Australia, gold may allude to poverty, usurpation and family separation.
The story starts with the “gold-worship” culture of Chinese people. At a Chinese wedding banquet, it is not uncommon to find the bride sporting a pair of gold bracelets weighed several ounces.
However, it would be hard to imagine what it takes to extract this amount of gold. The reality is the mining enterprises might have excavated about several hundred tonnes of ore and evicted an unaccountable number of aboriginals for that small quantity of gold.
Maduwangka people are the aboriginals of Western Australia. For more than a century, gold mining in the region has cost them land, health and their own culture.
In the last century, to facilitate gold mining, the white Australian government tried to assimilate Maduwangka people for easy governance. The authorities even resorted to kidnapping Maduwangka children from their parents. With children severed from their parents for decades, the trauma of Maduwangka people has not been healed yet. However, while gold mining in the region is not to halt, the “golden nightmare” is bound to continue.
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