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Description: Utopia is John Pilger's feature documentary, made for the cinema and ITV. Drawing on his long association with the first people of Australia, his homeland, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present. One of the world's best kept secrets is revealed against a background of the greatest boom in mineral wealth. Has the 'lucky country' inherited South African apartheid? Utopia tells a universal story of power
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Drawing on his long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present. Utopia was broadcast on SBS in Australia on Saturday 31 May at 8.30pm
4,000 attend Utopia's Australian premiere A record crowd saw Utopia launch in an unprecedented open-air event in Redfern, the heart of urban Indigenous Sydney, on 17 January "I cried like I had lost a family member watching this film... a must-see for all Australians" Adam Goodes, Aboriginal football star and 2014 Australian of the Year
The public response to the broadcast of Utopia on the ITV Network has been widespread across the UK. Many people have asked what they can do to support Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice. I recommend that people write to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling on him to start, without delay, negotiations for a fully constituted Treaty between the Commonwealth of Australia and all the First Nations of Australia. This would included long overdue restitution and universal land rights. The Hon. Ma
JohnPilger.com - the films and journalism of John Pilger
Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist
concerned Australians | Without Justice There Can Be No Reconciliation