In the year of the “Voice to Parliament” Referendum.
SBS screens our film The Habits Of New Norcia and is available on SBS on Demand.
THE HABITS OF NEW NORCIA
A 53 minute documentary
This is the story of the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia, now a popular tourist nostalgia destination north of Perth, as told by former Aboriginal “inmates” who were placed in and tormented by this institution for the “care” of indigenous children separated from their families during the 1920s through to the 1960s –
“An orphanage without orphans”
“The Habits of New Norcia” challenges the quaint history that is dressed up for tourism and which is propagated at the Mission today, with the return of a repressed, violent and moving history, recalled by the “inmates” themselves.
Writer/Researcher and Community Liaison: Harry Taylor
Co Writer/Researcher/Director: Frank Rijavec
Producer: Carmelo Musca
