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Who is? Who isn't? What does it mean? And do we think it really matters? Director Kay Donovan puts innocent citizens and great thinkers alike on the spot about Australian citizenship and in the process uncovers a few who are yet to become 'True Blue'.
It is estimated that between 60 and 70 percent of immigrants arriving in Australia with refugee status have been tortured in their home country. Humane therapy is required, often outside the mainstream mental health system, to restore trust and allow them to get on with their lives. In this sensitive documentary, Kay Donovan interviews torture victims as well as mental health workers and other volunteers engaged in counselling and rehabilitation.
Teaching children the concepts of multiculturalism: 'It's a bit like asking your children to taste all foods - because really you want them to be able to take on everything...'
Women living in Australia's geographically isolated areas have always had to face social isolation. But for country women who have no family or cultural support and often don't even speak English the problems are compounded. In COUNTRY WOMEN five country women express their personal views. The film also looks at what is happening to make life less lonely for the ethnic women of Victoria's Sunraysia.
This documentary follows the progress of two people, Karin and Habib through their rehabilitation process.
The human story behind non-English speakers in the workplace. How classes at work help them learn not only English skills but specifically the language they need, to do their job more effectively and safely. Six different workplaces are shown, from a steel mill to a mail exchange and a bank, hotel, hospital, and a factory where the classes are tailored to the needs of the job.
Huynh Thien Mon was already an old man when he arrived in Australia as a refugee from Vietnam. Rather than 'drink tea and complain', he set about writing his own 'objective' history of Vietnam, using both French and Vietnamese sources and recording it all in beautiful calligraphy.
This documentary looks at three children with unusual gifts and the way their parents, teachers and mentors have broken down formal barriers to provide the most appropriate education for each.
This is a documentary about citizens' rights. 'If you can't speak the language and if you don't understand the legal system then I can't see how everyone can be considered equal before the law...'
As much as coal, iron ore or wheat, language is an Australian resource that can be put to profitable use to help boost the country's balance of payments. A group of Arab-Australian businessmen talk about how bi-lingualism has enabled them to break into the highly lucrative Middle Eastern market.
It is most often the case that the simplest ideas make the most powerful statements. In THINGS I CALL MINE, Mitzi Goldman talks to people who have migrated to Australia about the objects they brought with them when they came. The result is an extraordinary and moving documentary which, through individual stories, finds a touchstone of universal human experience.
In Sydney's drought thirsty suburbs, one water-conscious grandmother draws on her Lebanese upbringing to teach her family the value of every single drop. Eighty-seven year old Salma knows a thing or two about water conservation from her childhood in the Lebanese village of Jezzine, where she learnt 'the most important part of washing is the wringing', Selma has squeezed the most out of every single drop. She instilled in her own children such a value for recycling that one of her sons, a mechanical engineer, has invented a new way to control fluid that not only saves 80 per cent of water but could also revolutionise the way we turn on a tap.
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