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There are more than 270 remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia which is home to 12,000 people. Now these communities exists in the shadows of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett’s commitment to close down approximately 100 - 150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.Aboriginal Elders and Leaders are shocked and see the closing down of communities as a threat. To Aboriginal people, losing Country is not just like losing a home in the sense of losing a roof over your head. Losing Country is losing the connection to everything that ties them and is tied to that Country; Community, Language, Kin, Law, Culture. Aboriginal people belong to their Country just like your breath belongs to you. Country sustains Aboriginal people. Countrymen and women are the blue print of their land and carry its Stories, Law, Culture in their physical embodiment. Taking Country away from people is like committing Spiritual Genocide for they will be forever lost."This Is My Country is a confronting portrayal of an unacceptable situation. It puts forward a plea to fellow Australians to take action to remove the inequity for the First Peoples of this country and that the images remind us not to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow man.