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Sequel to JOE LEAHY'S NEIGHBOURS. Warfare engulfs Kilima plantation and destroys Joe Leahy's enterprise and that of his 'neighbours' — the Ganiga tribe. The plantation is ruined and Joe Leahy emigrates to Australia. The tragedy of cultural conflict and misunderstanding starkly unfolds.
Inside the halls of Sydney University’s Music Department, talented young students create sublime music in a setting that’s far from serene. After nearly a decade of relentless government funding cuts, Professor Anne Boyd is struggling to preserve basic standards. But Boyd is an innocent when it comes to harsh economic realities and the very qualities that are her strengths as a composer and teacher - her passion and dedication - leave her vulnerable. Forced to drop staff and courses and pick up the phone to plead for private sponsorship, the usually conservative Boyd is forced to fight for what she believes in. The problem is, how long can she continue?
About 50 years ago, the first European explorers penetrated the densely populated valleys of Papua New Guinea's central highlands. Unaware of the outside world, the highlanders as first thought the strangers were supernatural beings. They were, in fact, the advance guard of an Australian colonial invasions. For the next 40 years, they sought to impose upon the highlanders ideas about how human beings should organise themselves. By the mid 1970s the Australians had left and the highlands formed part of the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. JOE LEAHY'S NEIGHBOURS is the sequel to FIRST CONTACT, in which Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson documented the initial encounters between highlanders and white men. The central figure of FIRST CONTACT was the Australian gold prospector turned explorer, Michael Leahy, and this film revolves around Leahy's mixed-race son, Joe.
Filmmakers Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond follow MLC School's legendary director of music, Kern Carey, as she throws her young students into musical waters over their heads. Fifteen months later, at the Sydney Opera House, this extraordinary educational program comes to fruition, and we celebrate the making of music and what it can give us.
Politics is a bruising business. The best policies in the world mean nothing unless you've got the numbers. This film takes a behind-locked-doors look at how politicians get the numbers. Every September Sydney's Leichhardt Council elects its mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand was popular with citizenry, but they don't vote for the position of mayor - the 12 councillors do - and after three years of Larry some of them were after his job.
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