on Documentary Film Classics by William Rothman.

In this article we endeavour to address the problem of the low levels of Indigenous school attendance in Australia through strategies based on dialectical critical realism and metaRealism. We employ the concepts of the dialectic of the 7 Es, the concrete universal, four-planar social being, the self, active perception and dialectical universality to show how Indigenous education and an approach to school attendance can be developed that leads to a transformation of the underlying relations between educators and Indigenous communities, families (...) and children. In specific terms we endeavour to show how school connectedness can be given an emancipatory orientation. (shrink)

This article is a reflection on the significance of the recent struggle in Brisbane to prevent a two-year-old refugee child, Asha, from being taken from hospital and deported. The child was suffering from burns and after her treatment the doctors refused to sign a release form as her safety could not be guaranteed in the refugee camp. The stance of the doctors produced widespread support from the people of Brisbane and the rest of Australia forcing the government to temporarily back (...) down and allow the child and her parents to be placed in community detention in Australia rather than off-shore. (shrink)

Richard Kilborn and John Izod _An Introduction to Television Documentary: Confronting Reality_ Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997 ISBN: 0719048923(hbk) 0719048931 (pbk) 258 pp.