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Incarceration Nation

An essential documentary on Indigenous deaths in custody
NITV
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ABR Arts 14 September 2021

Incarceration Nation

An essential documentary on Indigenous deaths in custody
NITV
by
ABR Arts 14 September 2021
Keenan Mundine in Incarceration Nation (NITV)
Keenan Mundine in Incarceration Nation (NITV)

Dean Gibson, a Guugu Yimithirr man, is the writer and director of Incarceration Nation, one of the latest documentaries on SBS On Demand. It’s worth noting this because Incarceration Nation, for those who believe this country was ‘settled’ and is equal for all, is essential viewing. Gibson says that ‘Australia was founded by the English with one clear purpose: to create a prison island. More than two hundred years later, not much has changed.’ It’s a strong statement. Having written about this before, I would take it one step further and say that Australia was founded to create not a prison, but an economy.

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