Island Home Country

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Cast

Jeni Thornley

Narrator

Rinki Bhattacharya

Self

Dur-e Dara

Self

Jim Everett

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Phyllis Pitchford

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Arundhati Roy

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Julie Janson

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Julie Gough

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Clive Atkinson

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Jan Thornley

Self