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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Down and Out for Down Under : Critiquing Race and Representation in Abe Forsythe's Satire
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The Cronulla Riots were a dark episode in Australia's recent history, revealing the festering antagonism between Sydney's white and Middle Eastern populations, and reflecting the ongoing tensions of life in a multicultural society. Abe Forsythe's Down Under satirises this event, creating comedy from the capers of two carloads of misguided young men. But with Australia still plagued by conflicts and inequalities rooted in race and ethnicity, argues Mehal Krayem, this film's subject matter really is no laughing matter.

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    y separately published work icon Metro Magazine vol. 191 Summer 2017 10708766 2017 periodical issue 2017 pg. 14-19
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