Incarceration Nation
Post-film panel discussion
FREE EVENT
THURSDAY MAY 5 | 6:30PM
The Edge, FEDSQUARE
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Content Warning: The topics in Incarceration Nation such as deaths in custody and violence, can trigger traumatic memories for survivors. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this film may be particularly triggering or traumatic.
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Film Synopsis
Indigenous Australians comprise 29% of the prison population but only 3.3% of the population. Incarceration Nation connects the relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians - two key drivers of incarceration. We’re amidst an internationally recognised human rights catastrophe. It’s time for change.
Film Info
Director: Dean Gibson
Country: Australia, USA
Year: 2021
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Finalist Nominee - 66th Walkley Foundation Awards for Excellence in Journalism; Nominee for Sydney Film Festival Awards.
Screening Location: The Edge, Swanston St &, Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000
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Post-film Panel Discussion
Moderator: Karina Hogan
Karina was born in Brisbane to an Aboriginal and Southsea Islander mother and Australian father. Karina has worked in leadership roles and as a Journalist, producer and broadcaster and in community engagement alongside various organisations. Karina spent 10 years on the management committee of Sisters Inside and six years as the Chair of The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS). She was appointed to the board of the Children’s Hospital Queensland in 2019 and has recently been reappointed for a second term.
Apryl Day
Apryl Day (Watson) a proud Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba and Barapa Barapa woman became a strong advocate in ending Aboriginal deaths in custody after her mother Tanya Day died in police custody in 2017. Today Apryl is the founder and CEO of the Dhadjowa foundation which works with families who have lost loved ones in the system.
Dr Crystal Mckinnon
Dr Crystal McKinnon is an Amangu Yamatji academic, researcher and community organiser. She is a historian and a critical Indigenous studies scholar, who is currently working at RMIT as a Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre. Her research work has looked at concepts of Indigenous sovereignty, justice and law, and Indigenous social movements, resistance and protest. Crystal is the co-editor of Aboriginal History journal, and of History, Power and Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies (UTS ePress, 2014), and her work has been published in many books and journals, the most recent including Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (2020), Cambridge Legal History of Australia (2021), Biography, and Australian Feminist Law Journal.