02/10/2026
Scott Ritter Short's piece; 'The Back Pack Girls' is written like a gripping and highly emotive screen play, so to Screen Australia Screen NSW and VicScreen we need you to put THESE STORIES out to the film makers of Australia as a matter of urgency.
We must have films relevant to now, to have informed consent to the role Australia plays in Isr@el and the US's intentions to take out Iran and learn as Nick Hanna reports, that the evidence our PM used to justify our support of this illegal invasion is utterly flimsy at best.
(Link in the comments: Is Iran really behind Australia’s antisemitic arson attacks?)
In the very real life horror of the Minab School Bombing, witnesses describe seeing the little bodies of children that were blown up and found hanging un-alived in the surrounding trees. If this doesn't floor you into artfully speaking up, then maybe the soldiers that are being coerced into the position of pulling these triggers are also un-aliving themselves might? There's a thousand stories that can be told about the most infamous day in war crime history, so let's start here. Especially when politicians speak of bringing back conscription and targeting our kids to feed into the military meat grinder for the filthy rich.
In disturbingly surreal contrast it feels like a slew of benign art is being pushed out of every or***ce of the industrial arts machine. Varying from the pepped up joyful ART shows, or sexually charged nothingness, to vacuous and twisted fictions while we're actually living in - and funding the most globally militarised, shamelessly propagandarised & blatantly depraved and corrupt era humanity has ever seen.
The arts absolutely have an obligation to speak up in a time when silence can only be seen as compliance.
The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Iran was a clear cut war crime. Will Pete Hegseth ever be brough to justice for his role in murdering 168 innocent lives?
