The opening scene depicts a group of Aboriginal Australians in military uniforms coming ashore in a land they have not previously been to.

The Babakiuerian government's paternalistic policies are defended by Wagwan, the Minister for White Affairs (Bob Maza) who was based on the then Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

[1][2][3][4][5] The inversion of reality in Babakiueria highlights the unfairness of Australia's past and present Aboriginal policies and the entrenched racism in society.

This subversion of normality allows viewers to see what is wrong when one group tries to control and dominate another and questions the fairness of the current power structure in Australia.

[6] After it was screened at the Message Sticks Festival in Sydney in 2012, Mahjid Heath noted that "issues we were struggling with in the early 80s are still relevant and still define the political and national discourses today".