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(0)Steve Thomas
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
More than a hundred years after the Tasmanian Aborigines were declared extinct, their descendants set out to reclaim the lost graves of their ancestors on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. The neglected burial site at Wybalenna (or 'Black Man's Houses') which, in the 1830s was Australia's first segregated Reserve, is now a battleground dividing a community. Although set on a tiny island, BLACK MAN'S HOUSES has major relevance in a post-colonial world...
2) Hope
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred asylum seekers were pitched into the sea when their people-smuggling boat from Indonesia sank on its way to Australia in 2001. Three hundred and fifty three people drowned. Only seven survivors made it to Australia. Amal Basry was one of those survivors, spending 22 hours in the ocean hanging on to a floating corpse, convinced that her son was dead and she was the only person left alive. Acclaimed documentary maker Steve Thomas records...