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Indigenous peoples

Films & TV Film stills from "Louis Theroux: The Settlers" (Left) and "No Other Land" (Right) Films & TV

No Other Land & Louis Theroux: The Settlers

“Both these documentaries are essential viewing as you let your own moral compass be your guide. These films deliver crystal-clear perspectives through microcosms of the ongoing decades-long situation of Indigenous Palestinians being ethnically cleansed at gunpoint from their ancestral homelands in the occupied West Bank. It is happening right now,” says Jonathan Sargeant from St Francis College as Nakba commemorations approach on Thursday 15 May

Living Waters: A Short Film Event panellists John Harvey, Robin Clayfield and The Rev’d Deborah Bird, with moderator Lydia Fairhall, on 1 September 2023 in Maleny (Image by Tim Birch)
Resources & Research

Community engagement: partnering to connect with the wider community

“We were blessed to have a full house for Living Waters — there was a moment as we were getting ready to open the doors when we thought we might have to turn people away, but thankfully we managed to squeeze in some extra seats,” says formation student Lydia Fairhall, as she shares about a recent short film community engagement initiative
Video

Beneath the Southern Cross

Check out this gentle, yet powerful, song written and recorded by Peter Branjerdporn about Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through a Voice

Films & TV

Limbo

“It’s impossible to watch a film like Limbo and not consider the socio-political dimensions of its story and how racial injustice leads to inter-generational trauma and ongoing disadvantage,” says Ben Rogers

Justice & Advocacy

''Mother Earth''

“I will be giving thanks for the gift that First Nations knowledge has given me by helping me to understand the sense of connection I have to the place in which I was born and lived the first third of my life,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt

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