ITV Documentaries

Welcome to Australia (1999x2)

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Written and presented by John Pilger and directed and produced by Alan Lowery, Welcome to Australia seeks to demonstrate the injustices endured by Aboriginal Australian sportsmen and women who were, until recently, denied a place on Australia's olympic teams In the build-up to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games, Pilger finds that the elaborate preparations for the Olympics are overshadowing the reality of many Australia's Aboriginal citizens, who he argues continue to remain excluded, impoverished and mistreated in Australia. The film uses sport as a mechanism to draw attention to and tell the story of the injustices endured by Aboriginal Australians while also arguing that Aboriginal Australians could have had a much more significant impact on Australian sport if they had not been deliberately prevented from doing so.