I know that I take the mickey out of Australia, calling it 'the Underworld', and stuff like that, but it's the country of my birth - and 6 generations of my ancestors - and I love the place. I love the true blue, dinky-di, never-say-die, fair go, she'll be right, pull yer head in attitude of the true Australian spirit. Fortunately I'm native enough to have had relations who really were like that. Their generations were gritty, brave, spirited, self-effacing, laconic, unbelievably resourceful, irreverent, and my, how they loved to take the piss, especially out of the pompous. They would not have any time for the current crop of Gallah's that run the place and the scumbags who are sucking the place dry, but their loyalty and their love (though they wouldn't have called it that) for their battling countrymen and women was unassailable. Fair dinkum they recognised right from wrong...and if you were bloody wrong then they'd make sure you knew about it. Not one of them would have sat back and let this happen. Well let's see Australia, they stepped up to the mark...willyou?
A lingering, excruciating death lurks beneath the red desert of Olympic Dam in South Australia and the former 'Big Australian' (BHP) wants you to have some of it.
From the makers of BLOWIN' IN THE WIND, which "examines the secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its weaponry on Australian soil. It looks at the impact of recycled uranium weapons and the far-reaching physical and moral effects on every Australian. The film's release is timely as the government currently moves to approve more uranium mines while arguing the contrary - that by going nuclear we are being both 'safe' and 'green'.
Blowin' In The Wind reveals that Iraqi babies are now being born with major birth defects. Bradbury wonders whether Australians living downwind from the military testing ranges will be next. He argues that we were lied to by the British over the Woomera and Maralinga atomic tests. Can we trust another equally powerful partner in our 'war on terror'? With a cash budget of just $12,000 Blowin' In The Wind raises pertinent questions which cannot be ignored by the Australian public. The film shocked, angered and surprised large audiences recently when shown at the Sydney and Brisbane Film Festivals."
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