03.03.2014 - 02:00 [ The Sydney Morning Herald ]

Hostility to John Pilger‘s film a denial of nation‘s brutal past

For the last few weeks, I‘ve seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia. The buzz around Utopia – a documentary by John Pilger – has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month – both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians – and yet little appeared in the media about an event that the people of Redfern say was a “first“. This silence has since been broken by a couple of commentators whose aggression seemed a cover for their hostility to the truth about Aboriginal people.