[ SECRET POST #5727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5727 ⌋

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[tabaqui]

On the same topic but tangential....i have seen some pretty cool stuff come out of Australia, but watching, if you didn't know better, you would think the Aboriginal people of Australia did not EVEN EXIST.

They are no where in Australian films or shows, not even as background extras, as a rule. I mean - I think there was like one, two Aboriginal faces in the last Mad Max movie? In a crowd of hundreds? It's beyond bizarre and makes me not want to watch stuff from there at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Australian anon

There is Australian media with First Nations characters and actors - more likely in shows produced by ABC or SBS (if you were looking). But the lack of diversity (in general, not just of Indigenous Australians) is pretty stark in many of the shows produced by the commercial networks (things like Packed to the Rafters, plus the behemoths like Home and Away/ Neighbours).

But if you are interested in genre TV recommendations, you may want to check out Firebite - it's about Indigenous vampire hunters in outback Australia. Also Cleverman, which is about an Aboriginal superhero in a dystopic type world. (Both are by Indigenous writers/ filmmakers as well)

[tabaqui]

Thanks for the recs, anon!

[(Anonymous)]

The indigenous population of Australia is very small, numerically (like around 1%), but in a lot of the places where big Australian movies are set, there should be more indigenous people around.

Then you get things like the Mad Max movie where there were roles for indigenous actors and...Americans didn't recognise that and complained they were all white.

[tabaqui]

...didn't recognize what? That indigenous actors had roles? Or...i'm confused about what you're saying. There are two characters with spoken lines with some Maori ancestry in MMFR, and one other (Toast) who is a person of Black/Jewish/Russian decent.

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't recognise that any actors apart from Zoe Kravitz weren't white.

[(Anonymous)]

Australian anon

I think it's actually more like 2.5%-3%.

I agree, places where Aussie media is set should have more representation - like media set in Sydney. (NSW has the highest Indigenous population of the states and territories, with IIRC a large proportion centering in Sydney.) (That may have been what you meant, but I am choosing to be sassy about it for those who may not have known that).

Not quite sure what you meant by the casting comment. I assume something about how people identify as Indigenous in Australia is different to, say, the US? But that doesn't change that there weren't Indigenous Australian actors in Fury Road as far as has been reported... so, confused.

[greghousesgf]

there was one Aboriginal contestant in Zumbo.

[tabaqui]

I'm not familiar; I googled. 1 out of 20 (and who knows how many applied - hundreds?). Pretty sad.

[greghousesgf]

I would have loved to have seen more. He was a real charmer, too.