Utopia – Mid-Week Review
Must-see documentary, Utopia, is a damning account of successive Australian governments’ failure to address apartheid-style treatment of Indigenous communities, writes Maya Borom.
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Battle of the Sexes – Mid-Week Review
Battle of the Sexes is an engrossing documentary that fills in the significant context around the most watched tennis match in history, writes Sam Ryan.
Breaking the Chains – Mid-Week Review
Breaking the Chains is both a sad and uplifting look into the rural Indonesian practice of – and response to – pasung, in which shackles are used as a treatment for mental illness, writes Maya Borom.
Human Rights in the Media: November – Mid-Week Review
Pia White looks into the media’s role in cultural shift, through the recent coverage of two pertinent human rights issues: asylum seekers and gender equality.
Recipes & Refuge – Mid-Week Review
Food brings people together and can evoke stories. ‘Recipes & Refuge’ explores how new Australians (and subsequent generations) have used food to find their place in multicultural Australia, as well as maintain a connection to home, writes Sonia Nair
Human Rights in the Media & FLYBZ – Mid-Week Review
Pia White looks at media coverage of human rights during October through the monthly theme of ‘institutions’, and Sam Ryan reviews ‘Child Soldier’, the new song from hip-hop duo (and refugees from Burundi) featuring Paul Kelly.
Night Games – Mid-Week Review
For a sports-obsessed nation like Australia, Anna Krien’s Night Games is an oft-troubling but essential expose of the troubling ‘macho culture’ that exists in codes like AFL and NRL.
Panic – Mid-Week Review
In Panic, David Marr chronicles the use of fear in recent years by Australian politicians and the media, and paints a grim picture of more to come, writes Sonia Nair.
The Shadow King & The Loner – Mid-Week Reviews
Evelyn Tadros and Imogen White review two powerful Indigenous works: The Shadow King, a quintessentially Australian take on King Lear; and Vic Simms’ riveting re-released 1973 album, The Loner.
HiRise & Human Rights in the Media – Mid-Week Reviews
This week Athena Rogers reviews the refugee Melbourne Fringe Festival performance HiRise, and Pia White takes a look at discussions of violence in the media in the monthly media review.
Just Punishment – Mid-Week Review
Maya Borom reviews Just Punishment, a powerful documentary based around the trial of Van Nguyen that exposes the injustice of the death penalty.
Estuary – Mid-Week Review
Sonia Nair reviews John Bartlett’s second novel Estuary, which explores the chasms of the modern Australian character through themes such as indigenous rights, mental health, sexuality and disability.