Calls for prison abolition and defunding police are not new but have come to the fore recently following the murder of George Floyd Jr in the US and the reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement globally. In July, people flocked to Brisbane’s BLM rally, held at the height of the COVID pandemic, in…
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Incarceration Nation: 90 minutes of your time that could lead to a lifetime of change.
Filmmaker Dean Gibson says his latest documentary, Incarceration Nation, is part of a “truth series”. It follows from his documentaries, A War of Hope and Wik vs Queensland. His 2015 film, A War of Hope, documented the story of 235 Indigenous residents from Hope Vale in North Queensland, who were forcibly removed from their land…