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- Title
- Loading Docs 2021 - When Nobody Was Looking
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
In the 1970s, many Māori and Pasifika children ended up in state care on flimsy charges. Some received shock treatment. Entomologist Oliver Sutherland, co-founder of civil rights group ACORD, tried to expose what was going on. In this short documentary he recalls police raids and surveillance by the SIS during a decade plus campaign against racism in the justice system. Key figures from the Polynesian Panther and Ngā Tamatoa movements are interviewed, and stories of children as young as nine ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2021
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/loading-docs-when-nobody-was-looking-2021
- Related subjects
- idle / disorderly / police / nz police / polynesian / racism / polynesian panthers / mount eden prison / pākehā / māori / prison cell / welfare home / oliver sutherland / new zealand race relations council conference / 1973 / massey university / polynesian panther party / will 'ilolahia / ripeka evans / ngā tamatoa / māori activist group / activism / aaron smale / acord / auckland committee on racism and discrimination / ulla sköld / david lange / robert ludbrook / tigilau ness / ministry of social welfare / bert walker / psychiatric hospital / hake halo / lake alice / shock treatment / electrodes / catatonic fear / torture / peter trickett / royal commission of inquiry into abuse in care / aversion therapy / electroconvulsive therapy / polynesia / niue / 1970s / seventies / nz on air / new zealand on air / nz film commission / race relations conference / lake alice hospital / police raid
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