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Message Stick – The Long-grassers (2005)

An exposé on the homeless Aboriginal people of Darwin, known as 'long-grassers’. Deals with both the compassion and the bigotry they evoke by their mere presence.

Length: 25 minutes 58 seconds

Taken from the magazine program Message Stick

Original aspect ratio: 16 x 9 (TV)

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Source:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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