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The dying Australian country town of Dunedoo tries to resuscitate itself with a novel tourist attraction – The Big Dunny. But can a ‘giant shithouse’ save the town? Over 12 months the towns folk argue the merits of such an attraction.
Merle Oberon was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Studio publicists said she was born into a wealthy family in Hobart, Tasmania - Australia's island state. Yet rumour was that the exotic almond-eyed actress concealed her true past. It was said she was actually "oriental", perhaps Anglo-Indian, and born in Calcutta. In Tasmania, many remain convinced she was their island's most famous daughter, born not to wealthy parents but to a Chinese hotel worker and her married employer. THE TROUBLE WITH MERLE looks at celebrity, memory, identity, race and class... and at why Merle Oberon's origins mattered to people on a tiny island, in a country at the bottom of the world.
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