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This is My Country edited version { 40 images } Created 8 Dec 2018

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following images may contain images of deceased persons.

Tadros’s, ‘This is My Country’ is a compelling look at people balanced on the precipice of life, who for the most part are disenfranchised, neglected, and often forgotten.
“Her images, confronting but always compassionate, communicate the plight of Aboriginals in Australia but also in sharp contrast and present moments of hope. Her work stands out from other photographers who have documented Australia’s indigenous inhabitants because of her collaborative approach and becoming a stakeholder in the people’s lives she is documenting,” says, Dr Jack Picone, Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Studies Department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
To document Australia’s indigenous people, Tadros based in Broome Western Australia travels to remote regions of Australia’s vast and unforgiving outback, and spends time in Aboriginal communities. Ingetje recalls, “I witnessed a high incidence of alcoholism, domestic violence, general health issues, an alarming frequency of suicide - communities fractured and in distress. I documented sections of communities mismanaged by their governments, not fully understood by a wider aid community, and largely left unseen by the remainder of Australian society”. A voiceless and unseen minority cosigned to lives of quiet desolation.
"One day I heard about a young boy, who was lost and who had alcohol syndrome, the whole community went out to look for him, they found him two days later, in a croc infested country where he had been attacked by a croc" and the stories about the suicides in the Communities, suddenly it just hit me and I knew I had to start documenting, the good and the bad and in the hope to give the Aboriginal people a voice as I feel strongly that the Aboriginal people are not treated with the respect they deserve as they are the Original Peoples of this country and there is still till this day so much disrespect and racism, when you sit with the people and hear their stories it becomes obvious how beautiful these people are, there connection with their land, their Country and their family which is something we all can learn from." Ingetje makes photographs that make visible and make heard the plight of the most exposed and vulnerable people in Australian society. Tadros’s, also reveals to us many of the moments that are often under represented in the documentation of Australia’s original inhabitants. The moments of community, family, nurture, spirituality, environment, story - telling and importantly, healing.
Powerful and pervading, Tadros’s images, once seen, can’t be ignored and remind us of the power of documentary photography to question, communicate and debate the most pressing social issues facing society today. Most importantly, they remind us not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow man.
©Ingetje Tadros
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  • 100-150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are part of a sweeping government policy of settlement closure and dissolution of Indigenous Australian communities.<br />
Closing down communities is devastating for the people who live in them. It represents a physical, emotional, spiritual and painful disconnect for Aboriginal people from sacred land. The Kimberley, Western Australia.
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  • Children playing happily in a pool of water in front of their home near Morgans Camp, which is the remain of an old Pearling Camp in the outskirts of Broome. Rainfall is rare in this part of the world . Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Lydia is moving here mattress to the side of the road. <br />
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A lack of affordable short-term accommodation, combined with Aboriginal people moving in from remote communities, has led to people camping on bush blocks and parks in town. <br />
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One Mile community, Broome, Western Australia <br />
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  • Romania is playing at Morgans Camp which is the remain of an old Pearling Camp in the outskirts of Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • "Yes, cool me down!", Denise Macale is giving Shanita Andrews and David Macale a cool down , at the remote Biridu community in the Kimberley, temperatures rise easily over the 40 degrees in this part of the world. Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros
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  • Meah (3 yr) and Marjorie (5 yr) playing on 'the Hill' which are the sand dunes behind their family home in Kennedy Hill. Free as little birds they run and play in the sand dunes, unaware of the problems their Community is dealing with. This is such a beautiful place, the sand is white, the water is turquoise, the sky is blue and the view is even more spectacular. This is a pristine location. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Romania is playing in a phone booth near Morgans Camp, which is the remain of an old Pearling Camp close to the main street of Broome,  and yes the phone is working. Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros
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  • Family disputes in One Mile Community. Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Ralph Karadada sitting outside a house in the One Mile community. <br />
Volunteers at Broome PCYC and local police, give up their Christmas morning to deliver presents and food parcels to some of the less fortunate families in Broome.One Mile, Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros
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  • Feed the Little Children is providing meals for needy children in Broome's community who would otherwise go hungry. Up to 89% of Indigenous Australian families live BELOW the Henderson poverty line. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Kids playing at their family home in Kennedy Hill, despite poverty children are being children. Quane (1 yr), Meah (3 yr), Kitana (3 yr) and Marjorie (4 yr) (from L to R), Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Romaine showing off his pet rabbit in One Mile Community. Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • A 21st birthday party is celebrated by homeless and residents in the old office in Kennedy Hill (which has now been demolished.) Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Kitchen sink in a condemned house in Kennedy Hill. Homeless people where using this till the house got demolished. Now four houses and one Office have been demolished, seven houses remain. Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia. What will the future be for Kennedy Hill? Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Liam, Charlette, Quane, Marjorie and Megs relaxing while watching tv in Charlette's room. Tourists fly in from all over the world to Broome to enjoy the Cable Beach resorts and the surrounding pristine environment but for the residents of Kennedy Hill this reality is totally removed from their world. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Amanda Lewis lays on the couch in Esther's house in Kennedy Hill wondering what the day will bring. The word is that Kennedy Hill will slowly but surely be completely demolished. It is now seven dwellings left. When all the dwellings are gone, where will all the people moved on by the Mallingbar Aboriginal Corporation go? The land may either be sold or in some sort of joint venture developed. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Esther Yumbi having breakfast in her home in Kennedy Hill. Due to excessive alcohol consumption she has been diagnosed with kidney disease and now is being treated in Perth Hospital 2300 km away. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • "This is what alcohol is doing to people these days." Elaine Wiggan says. A fight, late afternoon at the house of Elaine Wiggan at Kennedy Hill. While I was capturing this chaos I called an ambulance but the woman who needed attending just walked away and I had to cancel the ambulance. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • "I did not have any support from Goverment's Services after I lost my niece in Mowanjum.<br />
1 1/2 year later, still waiting for assistance of Services or Organisations to talk about a lot of things that's happening in our Community- naa- nothing still happening!".."are they too selfish, to ignorant and too proud in the head to deal with the issues and not the people??."<br />
Sharon Wiggan (R) and her little niece Antoinnette. Broome, Western Australia.
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  • Quane (2yr) dancing in his sisters dress at his family home in Kennedy Hill, an Aboriginal Community in the centre of Broome. Unaware of the problems his Community is dealing with.  Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • In the past, as hunter-gatherers, Indigenous people needed to work together and be physically active when finding food. Changing to a European diet and lifestyle has changed all this, and has caused problems for many Indigenous people with healthy, affordable food often being difficult to get.<br />
In the Indigenous population the most common nutrition-related diseases are:<br />
heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease. ©Ingetje Tadros,The Kimberley, Western Australia.
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  • An Aboriginal woman is 45 times more likely to experience domestic violence than a white woman.<br />
Violence patterns are passed on from parents to their children. In Australia it takes police up to two years to respond to cases of domestic violence and take victims seriously. Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros
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  • "This is how we deal with our stress, we cut ourselves" says Susanne who is homeless and is waiting for a house in Broome. Western Australia.
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  • Young boys competing during an old Kimberley tradition, the Broome Rodeo. Twenty Cattle Stations took part in the spectacle. Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Chrissy holding a birthday cup which has the number 21 on it. Chrissy turned 21 years old, her mum Elaine Wiggan said to me; "She is a loving mum and does not drink, she stays home and looks after her two kids." Broome, Western Australia.©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • "Suicides have increased and many are homeless as others had no option but to move in with family members as not enough new houses where provided. In 2011, all families living at Oombulgurri were evicted from their homes after the government of Western Australia deemed the community "unviable". The Government of Western Australia has flattened the Aboriginal homelands community of Oombulgurri in 2014. (I-Ingetje Tadros deided to have a closer look, hired a boat from Wyndham and took five people back to their homeland.  It was the first time that Fiona Unghango, Geraldine Mitchell and Anthony Clark (L-R) went back. ©Ingetje Tadros. Oombulgurri, Western Australia
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  • "Suicides have increased and many are homeless as others had no option but to move in with family members as not enough new houses where provided." In 2011, all families living at Oombulgurri were evicted from their homes after the government of Western Australia deemed the community "unviable". The Government of Western Australia has flattened the Aboriginal homelands community of Oombulgurri in 2014.<br />
Although many refused to leave, Western Australia's Government closed the health clinic, school, police station, shop, and shut off the town’s power and water. The last residents from Oombulgurri were relocated to Wyndham, the northernmost town in the Kimberley region. (I-Ingetje Tadros wanted to see and feel the situation and hired a boat in Wyndham and took five people back.<br />
Oombulgurri’s residents and traditional owners have been fighting to return ever since.<br />
©Ingetje Tadros. Oombulgurri, Western Australia
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  • "Going for a killer."<br />
Before the white men invaded, Aboriginal people had a great food source to choose from which came from the bush, the land, seas and waterways. The people have a great understanding of the changing season and environment. Aboriginal people on the coast would have a diet of shellfish, turtles, dugon, fish, berries etc and people inland would have fresh water fish, yabbies, emu, duck, kangaroo, snakes etc. ©Ingetje Tadros, The Kimberley, Western Australia
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  • In this ancient meeting place, near Tunnel Creek in the heart of the Kimberley between two towering boabs, the remains of two Bunuba men and one woman will rest in peace at last - 100 years after they were taken away.<br />
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A Federal repatriation program slowly retrieves Aboriginal remains from around the world.<br />
There are remains still in France, Germany, Austria, England, the US and South Africa. "Rather than having them mailed back to us, we organise for the tribal group to go over and escort the remains back," Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre spokesman Neil Carter said <br />
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Today, the remains of more than 100 Aboriginals, collected from Sweden, Austria and Australian museums, are stored in two sea containers at Fitzroy Crossing, awaiting burial.<br />
Tunnel Creek, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • A  young boy who went missing was found by Rangers a day later, the boy was attacked by a crocodile. Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Due to a rough and hard live, being homeless and heavy alcohol consumption, Mona Angus (a dear friend) lost her live at age 49.<br />
She is buried near the historical church in Djarindjin, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros<br />
My you rest in peace.
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  • A ripped shirt on a cross... a grave in a cemetery. Broome,<br />
Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • No hands... a grave in a cemetery.<br />
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Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Meah (5 yr) standing outside her family home, it's 7.30 AM and watching the bulldozer demolishing Kennedy Hill's Office. Now four houses and one Office have been demolished, seven houses remain. Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia. What will the future be for Kennedy Hill? Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Sussanne Charmawina and Jacquelin waking up in their new camp, at the other side of the fence, as the condemned house they used before in Kennedy Hill, has now been demolished. Till this day this camp is still being used by many homeless people. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • A crisis is unfolding, a spiritual collapse. Those who care and who are watching , are struggling for words and fear that an entire culture is getting destroyed.<br />
Broome, Western Australia ©Ingetje Tadros
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  • Bruce Njamme has been coming and going to Kennedy Hill for a few months, living it rough and always has been very kind to me and one morning he said to me, "Hey Ingi from now on we will call you 'Nagala' (sister) then Bruce said "I want to sing a song for you." Then he walked over to an old and abounded car outside the fence in the sand dunes, sat on the bonnet and said, "I am from Balgo from the desert and I sing this song for my family who all passed away and for my father who is Sunfly. The song is called Worray Yagga Yagga." It was a very emotional song and than he burst out in tears. Many of these people who live in and around Kennedy Hill are so far from their country. Broome, Western Australia.
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  • Alan Dededar leaving Kennedy Hill and mentioned to me he is on his way to Centacare. Centacare Kimberley in Broome provides a range of services to people who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or are experiencing financial hardship. Centacare have an outreach team that engages with people sleeping rough throughout the Broome area with a primary focus on supporting them to access social housing. Centacare runs a homeless breakfast. Alan is from Balgo a dry community (alcohol is not permitted) and is squatting in a condemned house in Kennedy Hill. (This house has now been demolished). Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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  • Sussanne Charmawina is homeless and leaving her bushcamp in the sand dunes in Kennedy Hill to go to Haynes Oval in Broome's Chinatown district. Many homeless sit in the day time at Haynes Oval which is a large park in the center of Broome. People are drifting in from remote communities around the Kimberley as Broome is exempt from the tight liquor restrictions in place in the rest of the Kimberley. Sussanne is on the waiting list for a house. Broome, Western Australia. ©Ingetje Tadros/Diimex
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