with the band Goanna in the 1980s. He played the didgeridoo and performed in the video clip of the same name. Commentator Robert like many of his generation experienced the culture wars between the indigenous and white communities. He witnessed the brutal regime at Mt Doreen station where the station owner treated "the blacks" as slaves. Aboriginal writer and activist Kevin Gilbert interviewed Jabanungga for the award-winning book Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert. Suffering is that the white people class them as the lowest person on earth. Modern Aboriginals are victims of this chain of historical events. I believe that Aborigines should come to view their background a bit more realistically on the surface and with a bit less shame underneath. Aboriginal people were forced to work, if they didn’t, the station owners called the police in. I always thought Australia was different to America, but we had slavery here, too. The people might not have been sold on the blocks like the American Negroes were, but they were owned, just the same. Acting credits Cash and Company (credited as Jabanunga Kantilla) 1975 Bellbird References 1946 births 1985 deaths Indigenous Australian musicians 20th-century Australian musicians Warlpiri people