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| Subject: John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous OZschwitz Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:02 am | |
| "It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia.
The Aboriginal man is standing in a $240-a-night hotel room on Rottnest Island which used to be divided into three prison cells in which more than 50 indigenous people died.
"They don't have any idea what happened in here," Nannup tells Pilger of the hotel's paying guests.
"No one tells them. No one lets them know." Advertisement
It's perhaps the most poignant moment in Utopia.
London-based Pilger returns to outback Australia for this documentary film to find little has changed since his 1985 work The Secret Country.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/john-pilgers-damning-new-film-about-indigenous-australia-20131231-303tf.html#ixzz2p2dBGrVZ |
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