Menu
Home
Forum Rules
Store
Donate
Meltdown Mayhem Hacks ⚔︎
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Menu
Log in
Register
Home
Sweatshop - Pure Drama
Political Fray
Lets talk about left wing hate
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="LotusBud" data-source="post: 311935" data-attributes="member: 1123"><p>Yeah. Not exactly.</p><p></p><p>The film stirred controversy in Australia relating to the government's historical policy of removing part-Aboriginal children, who became known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations" target="_blank">Stolen Generations</a>, from Aboriginal communities and placing them in state institutions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Byrnes-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Abetz" target="_blank">Eric Abetz</a>, a government official, announced the publishing of a leaflet criticising the film's portrayal of the treatment of indigenous Australians, and demanded an apology from the filmmakers. Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Noyce" target="_blank">Phillip Noyce</a> suggested instead that the government apologize to the indigenous people affected by the removal policy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><p></p><p>Conservative commentators such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bolt" target="_blank">Andrew Bolt</a> also attacked the historical accuracy of the film. Bolt criticized the numerous disparities between the film and Pilkington Garimara's novel, a fact that angered Pilkington Garimara, who said that Bolt had misquoted her.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> The academic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Manne" target="_blank">Robert Manne</a> in turn accused Bolt of historical denialism, and scriptwriter Christine Olsen wrote a detailed response to Bolt's claims.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Byrnes-5" target="_blank">[5]</a></p><p></p><p>Olsen attributed the angry response among some of the public to the fact that it was based in events that were "demonstrably true" and well-documented.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> However, the filmmaker said that the film was meant primarily as a drama rather than a political or historical statement. Noyce stated, "If drama comes from conflict, there's no greater conflict in Australian history than the conflict between indigenous Australians and white settlers."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><p></p><p>The historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Windschuttle" target="_blank">Keith Windschuttle</a> also disputed the film's depiction of events, stating in his work <em>The Fabrication of Aboriginal History</em> that Molly and the two other girls had been removed for their own welfare, and that the two older girls had been sexually involved with white men. Noyce and Olsen rejected these criticisms, stating that Windschuttle's research was incomplete.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Maddox_&_Munro-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> Pilkington Garimara denied Windschuttle's claims of sexual activity between her mother and local whites, stating that the claims were a distortion of history.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Perpitch-7" target="_blank">[7]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LotusBud, post: 311935, member: 1123"] Yeah. Not exactly. The film stirred controversy in Australia relating to the government's historical policy of removing part-Aboriginal children, who became known as the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations']Stolen Generations[/URL], from Aboriginal communities and placing them in state institutions.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4'][4][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Byrnes-5'][5][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Abetz']Eric Abetz[/URL], a government official, announced the publishing of a leaflet criticising the film's portrayal of the treatment of indigenous Australians, and demanded an apology from the filmmakers. Director [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Noyce']Phillip Noyce[/URL] suggested instead that the government apologize to the indigenous people affected by the removal policy.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4'][4][/URL] Conservative commentators such as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bolt']Andrew Bolt[/URL] also attacked the historical accuracy of the film. Bolt criticized the numerous disparities between the film and Pilkington Garimara's novel, a fact that angered Pilkington Garimara, who said that Bolt had misquoted her.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4'][4][/URL] The academic [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Manne']Robert Manne[/URL] in turn accused Bolt of historical denialism, and scriptwriter Christine Olsen wrote a detailed response to Bolt's claims.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Byrnes-5'][5][/URL] Olsen attributed the angry response among some of the public to the fact that it was based in events that were "demonstrably true" and well-documented.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4'][4][/URL] However, the filmmaker said that the film was meant primarily as a drama rather than a political or historical statement. Noyce stated, "If drama comes from conflict, there's no greater conflict in Australian history than the conflict between indigenous Australians and white settlers."[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Fickling-4'][4][/URL] The historian [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Windschuttle']Keith Windschuttle[/URL] also disputed the film's depiction of events, stating in his work [I]The Fabrication of Aboriginal History[/I] that Molly and the two other girls had been removed for their own welfare, and that the two older girls had been sexually involved with white men. Noyce and Olsen rejected these criticisms, stating that Windschuttle's research was incomplete.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Maddox_&_Munro-6'][6][/URL] Pilkington Garimara denied Windschuttle's claims of sexual activity between her mother and local whites, stating that the claims were a distortion of history.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence#cite_note-Perpitch-7'][7][/URL] [/QUOTE]
Name
Verification
Post reply
Home
Sweatshop - Pure Drama
Political Fray
Lets talk about left wing hate
