Living with Waltzing Matilda Alan Whicker introduces the sixth of ten films in Australia's bicentennial year. To most travellers the real Australia is the Northern
Territory, which attracts the loners, men like Sid Smith from Dudley who runs one of the loneliest pubs in the world. While Sid looks after his one and only regular, his wife Barbara prepares Devonshire cream teas for any passing trade.
It is via a cattle-mustering expedition by helicopter and a stopover at the tiny town of Katherine to meet a fun-loving girl from Southall with a strong right hook that Alan Whicker meets some Aboriginals at an alcohol rehabilitation centre. For them the bicentenary is no time for celebration.
Their existence in the camps is wretched, and lightened only by two young pommy doctors, Dr Clare and Dr Neil.
Assistant producer MO BOWYER Film cameraman RAY HENMAN
Sound recordist KEITH RODGERSON Film editor LIZ THOYTS Producer ROGER MILLS BBC Bristol
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