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High Ground : Yolngu Boy Director Stephen Maxwell Johnson and Elder Witiyana Marika Reunite for Northern Territory Western,
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'Arriving right on time for Australia's contested January 26 public holiday, the thorny new action drama High Ground is the latest in a growing body of local revisionist films to tangle with the racial violence that has become inseparable from the nation's troubled past.' (Introduction)
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David Helfgott, the Concert Pianist Immortalised in Shine, Awarded OAM for Service to Performing Arts,
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'Renowned Australian concert pianist David Helfgott has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his service to the performing arts following a career spanning seven decades.'
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Stan's New Series Bump Enters the Pantheon of Great Australian TV, with Claudia Karvan, Teen Pregnancy and Diversity,
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— Review of Bump 2020 series - publisher film/TV ;'Believe it or not, 2021 already has a contender for best Australian show of the year: Stan series Bump, which dropped its first season of 10 half-hour episodes on New Year's Day.'
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Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls : Sydney Festival Show the Fruit of Eight-year Mission to Make '100 Per Cent POC' Theatre,
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— Review of Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls 2021 single work drama multimedia ;'A white actor pissing into a bottle and calling it art? No thanks, Michael Mohammed Ahmad isn't interested. Nor does he need tickets "to watch some white guy literally improvising some nonsense and sweating on us".' (Introduction)
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The Unexpected Rescue Mission That Inspired ABC Mini-series Flight into Hell — and Other Survivalists,
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'It's the unlikely tale of survival you'd expect to see on the silver screen, not in the history books.'
