| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (30 min) : sound, color ; 1/2 |
| Series |
Sunday |
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Sunday
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| Summary |
Before February 26 2005, few Australians had heard of the outer Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields. Now most people know little more about it than that a car crash killed two young men and sparked four nights of rioting. The reflex response from politicians was a competition on law and order. Because criminality could never be excused, seeking explanations for the riots was deemed unnecessary. Reporter Sarah Ferguson spent weeks with the friends and family of Jesse Kelly - alleged to be the car's driver - to try to discover what caused community tensions to boil over. For many of the residents of Macquarie Fields, the 1970s social experiment in public housing - plonking the poor in cheap real estate on the city's fringe - has failed. The promise of jobs never followed. Welfare collection has replaced work, crime generates income, boredom is relieved by cheap drugs and alcohol and domestic violence is rife. This is a tough warts-and-all documentary, told by the people who live there |
| Notes |
Broadcast on Sunday (Channel 9) on 22 May 2005 |
| Credits |
Producer: Nick Rushworth |
| Performer |
Presenter: Jana Wendt; reporter: Sarah Ferguson |
| Notes |
DVD. Region unspecified |
| SUBJECT |
Macquarie Fields (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Macquarie Fields (N.S.W.) -- Economic conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Author |
Ferguson, Sarah.
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Rushworth, Nick
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