The word "kabbarli" is an indigenous Australian Aboriginal word for "grandmother".
This film was produced by Resonance Productions in association with SBS Independent and the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the Australian Film Commission, and the New South Wales Film and Television Office.
Daisy Bates wrote in her Ooldea Notebooks in 1919: "All over the West Australian frontier I saw whole populations completely devastated . . . Kabbarli, the natives would say to me - 'meenya jang-ga bomungat' - the smell of white man is killing us".