'Don't Do It Again': Hearing, Seeing and Deep Listening in 'After the Apology'

A decade after the Australian Government's momentous gesture of contrition towards its Aboriginal population, the latter continue to suffer reprehensible living conditions – not least of which is the system of forced removal of children that directly mirrors policies of the Stolen Generations era. Larissa Behrendt's documentary tackles this ongoing oppression, and the still-unhealed traumas, of Indigenous communities, writes Aimee Knight.

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trauma, intergenerational, dispossession, genocide, Grandmothers Against Removals, cross-media, rotoscope, Indigenous, animation, social justice.