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Title Big brother of Christmas Island / directed by Mathew Kelley ; produced by Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane ; narrated by John Stanton
Published Acton, Australian Capital Territory : National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (57 min.)
Series Australasian video online
Summary Phosphate-rich Christmas Island rears out of the Indian Ocean only ten degrees south of the Equator. It was mined first by the British and then by the Australians. The British Phosphate Commission ran the island like a Raj outpost, exploiting cheap Asian labor and practicing a form of apartheid. Gordon Bennett, a hard-drinking Englishman, came to the remote Australian territory in 1979 to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. Appalled at what he found, Bennett was determined to dismantle the archaic and racist institutions on the island. The film traces attempts to crush the tiny union and shut down the mine. By the time Bennett died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means 'big brother who delivers'
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014)
In English
Subject Bennett, Gordon, 1944-1991
Labor movement -- Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) -- History
Labor unions -- Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
Labor movement.
Labor unions.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) -- Social conditions
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) -- History
Subject Christmas Island.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
History.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Kelley, Matthew.
Kelley, Samantha.
Du Cane, Peter.
Stanton, John, 1944-