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| As narrator/polemicist John Pilger dryly observes in this searing indictment of the ongoing mistreatment of the Aboriginal people, the white folk who gave the name Utopia to the most disadvantaged area of Australia either had "a very acute sense of irony or were demented by the heat". | As narrator/polemicist John Pilger dryly observes in this searing indictment of the ongoing mistreatment of the Aboriginal people, the white folk who gave the name Utopia to the most disadvantaged area of Australia either had "a very acute sense of irony or were demented by the heat". |
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| In this impassioned and righteously angry piece, Pilger leads us through the appalling plight of the "first Australians", visiting ritzy hotels that once served as concentration camps, pausing en route to harangue sheepish-looking politicians and asking random revellers if they understand why their predecessors don't celebrate Australia Day. Calls for sterilisation and a history of forced assimilation (state-enforced child removals, the "intervention") beggar belief, but Pilger's powerful film has the unmistakable ring of truth. | In this impassioned and righteously angry piece, Pilger leads us through the appalling plight of the "first Australians", visiting ritzy hotels that once served as concentration camps, pausing en route to harangue sheepish-looking politicians and asking random revellers if they understand why their predecessors don't celebrate Australia Day. Calls for sterilisation and a history of forced assimilation (state-enforced child removals, the "intervention") beggar belief, but Pilger's powerful film has the unmistakable ring of truth. |
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