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Posted: 29-Jan-2008 Video duration : 10 minutes 0 seconds
Laundry
As Davina does her laundry, she was confronted with Iyem, her neighbor's domestic worker from Indonesia. Iyem began to share stories behind closed door to her. Davina now have to figure out what she would do with these stories. Read more…
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Posted: 20-Dec-2007 Video duration : 40 minutes 42 seconds
Panel 2- Web 2.0
Making Links panel discussion about Web 2.0, its benefits and challenges. Sydney, October 2007. Read more…
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 Video duration : 12 minutes 37 seconds
From the World Social Forum to the Melbourne Social Forum
In just 4 years over 160 social forums have been held in over 120 cities around the world. Where did such a dynamic process come from? This documentary looks at the emergence of the World Social Forum, from the perspective of one of its founders, Chico Whitaker, and highlights the local Melbourne Social Forum's significance to the community. Through various interviews the meaning and rationale of the social forum process is contextualised. Read more…
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Posted: 04-Dec-2007 Video duration : 10 minutes 55 seconds
Collingwood Childrens Farm
This documentary looks at the plight of young children who spent years as war refugees, and in Australian detention centres. Now going to school at Collingwood College, they recount their harrowing experiences. Read more…
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Posted: 20-Nov-2007 Video duration : 3 minutes 33 seconds
LEST WE FORGET - HOWARD'S HELLHOLES
Footage from Curtin Immigration Detention Centre showing treatment of Afghani asylum seekers placed in 'separation detention' following their arrival in Australia ... Read more…
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Posted: 03-Nov-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 58 seconds
'Extraction' at Port Hedland detention centre, May 2001
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre recently leaked a training video by Australasian Correctional Management at the time of the Port Hedland detention centre riots of 2001. It shows instruction being given to staff on how to remove an asylum seeker from a detention centre. Read more…
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Posted: 24-Oct-2007 Video duration : 0 minutes 28 seconds
Refugees are nice
The title says it all... Read more…
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Posted: 22-Oct-2007 Video duration : 20 minutes 29 seconds
Refugee Solidarity Tour - Woomera
September 2001. A trip is made in solidarity with asylum seekers in the Woomera detention centre. During the visit riot police attack the refugees with water cannons, tear gas and batons for over 20 minutes. In a David vs Golliath situation some refugees throw stones at the forces of order. Meanwhile 260 Australian activists, kept back by the state police, watch horrified from about 200 metres distance. Read more…
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Posted: 11-Oct-2007 Video duration : 3 minutes 21 seconds
Australian Citizanshit test ... 11 October 2007
Immigration Minister was speaking this morning at a conference in Melbourne's Hotel Sofitel, which seemed a good occasion for public spirited citizens to lend a hand with the drive to enrol new citizens ... Read more…
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Posted: 22-Aug-2007 Video duration : 1 minute 50 seconds
Australia Day BBQ: Part 3 of 3
Things get ugly at an aussie bbq. An improvisation featuring Jud Campbell, Mikey Carter, Andrew Hutchings, Izumi Pennicott, Alex Bond, Two Pants Rotation, Katie Smart Kont and Dewi. Read more…
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Posted: 18-Jul-2007 Video duration : 28 minutes 0 seconds
Wars and Waves : Sri Lanka's internally displaced
In Sri Lanka, a natural disaster and ongoing conflict have displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Read more…
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Posted: 09-May-2007 Video duration : 1 minute 10 seconds
Signature Video of ViBGYOR Short & Documentary Festival 2007
The Signature Video of ViBGYOR International Short & Documentary Film Festival Read more…
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Posted: 07-May-2007 Video duration : 1 minute 25 seconds
Plug In TV - Melbourne Stats
Segment from Plug In TV Season 1 containing some statistics about Melbourne you might be familiar with and some you may not. Plug In TV is an independent media collective producing documentaries for C31 community TV in Melbourne. Read more…
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Posted: 13-Mar-2007 Video duration : 7 minutes 0 seconds
Exploiting West Papua
A documentary looking at corporate abuses by Western multi-national corporations in West Papua. Read more…
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Posted: 11-Feb-2007 Video duration : 5 minutes 0 seconds
Ripples Episode 2
Ian Skiller is a stone fruit farmer living on the Murray in Tooleybuc NSW. A few years ago a couple of refugees arrived at his front door with nothing but a pot. Read more…
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Posted: 18-Jan-2007 Video duration : 1 minute 0 seconds
i travel
'i travel' is a short video that visualises the travelling we all do in our minds, imagining communities we long to be a part of. And for some, it is all they have. Read more…
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Posted: 04-Jan-2007 Video duration : 9 minutes 59 seconds
Through the Wire
In March 2002, detainees of Australia's Woomera detention centre staged a mass breakout in a spontaneous and desperate bid for freedom. Aided by hundreds of committed social activists protesting Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in mandatory detention, the breakout captured the attention and interest of human rights groups around the globe. At the frontline of the breakout, filmmaker Pip Starr captures the raw emotion and urgency of the event to create a damning indictment of Australia's inhumane immigration policies. Read more…
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Posted: 14-Dec-2006 Video duration : 7 minutes 12 seconds
Where is Freedom
Interviews from June 2002 from behind the fence of the Woomera Detention Centre for refugees in South Australia. Read more…
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Posted: 25-Nov-2006 Video duration : 9 minutes 41 seconds
Climate Justice Tour
In 2004 Friends of the Earth hosted a tour of the east coast of Australia by three representatives of some of the countries worst affected by the West's large scale use of fossil fuels. They are: Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria), Fiu Mataese (Samoa) and Suila Toloa (Tuvalu). Kim Stewart went with them... Read more…
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Posted: 07-Nov-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 55 seconds
Carteret Islands 4min
The people of the Carteret Islands are about to make history. They will not be the first people to lose their homes because of global warming. Rising seas, expanding deserts and changing weather have already displaced many, possibly millions of people. But the people of the Carterets may be unique, as they begin to abandon their atoll, one of the first peoples in the world to do so. Read more…
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