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This film tracks the success of an Aboriginal employment strategy which directly involves the community of Moree in improving race relations through mentoring clients and educating employers in cultural awareness. The employment strategy facillitates improved access to the workforce for Aboriginal people and becomes a grass roots movement bringing about change. Racism was threatening to destroy Moree which was once dubbed the most racist town in Australia.The social movement arising from the employment strategy results in Moree leading the way towards reconciliation between black and white Australians. Source : http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/ (Sighted 16 July 2009).
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Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree
2004
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— Appears in: Australian Cinema after Mabo 2004; (p. 94-111) 'The foucs of this chapter is on the ways that the films Heartland, Cunamulla and Message from Moree send a message to the viewer about what's going on in the country. The asssunption that life in the the country is shaped by what happened after the frontier wars is axiomatic for these programs. In the 1990s, reconciliation policies at the national level have influenced film narratives about the survival of Aboriginal communities and the various ways that settler and Indigenous Australians have intermingled in the country.' The authors argue that 'these narratives have found their way through the public film-funding bodies to ABC Television and can thus be construed as contributing to the national interest rather than to the sphere of entertainment.' Source : Australian Cinema after Mabo (2004).
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Coming from the Country in Heartland, Cunnamulla and Message from Moree
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cinema after Mabo 2004; (p. 94-111) 'The foucs of this chapter is on the ways that the films Heartland, Cunamulla and Message from Moree send a message to the viewer about what's going on in the country. The asssunption that life in the the country is shaped by what happened after the frontier wars is axiomatic for these programs. In the 1990s, reconciliation policies at the national level have influenced film narratives about the survival of Aboriginal communities and the various ways that settler and Indigenous Australians have intermingled in the country.' The authors argue that 'these narratives have found their way through the public film-funding bodies to ABC Television and can thus be construed as contributing to the national interest rather than to the sphere of entertainment.' Source : Australian Cinema after Mabo (2004).
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