The comments I'm hearing from community members on trains and just talking to them, 'Why Mount Druitt? There are so many good people here!' 'This can affect families and friends that want to they visit the area1' 'My street is good, why don't they show this?' 'This can affect the price of my house and others in the area and maybe less people will buy into our area!' 'Why don't they do the show on the Managing Directors 'Struggle Street' in Sydney!' 'We do have Success Streets, show them!' 'This is not good for the area!'
These are my comments on SBS face book Group:
It wasn't brilliant denigrate Mount Druitt which contradicts the majority of good and great community people, tertiary qualified, hardworking, retired and community volunteers that are actual true story successes. The original promo showed someone farting which I'm sure the TV Producers and Managing Director of SBS, Michael Obeid does as well. Can we see a Promotion of his Struggle Street (where he claims he is in Sydney). Can and will SBS do this? No. I'm sure in his suburb of Sydney there are drug addicts, homeless people and people looking for work. What has upset the Mount Druitt wider community is there was no discussion with Local,State & Federal Members of Parliament and if they didn't care about speaking to them, you contact community leaders of various community organisations. I have heard a rumour that SBS were filming illegaly without proper permission from the community on certain scenes. I'm sure if there was a court case against SBS for showing this program (they would lose) - SBS is publicly fund and we the public in Mount Druitt do not want our money to stereotype our area. There are well educated people both young and suggested living within our great community. I am one of many community leaders - people power is what believe in- and this is not a people power show. This can stop people coming to the area.vices This can stop further essential services into the area. Daily Telegraph was sued for doing a story on the lowest results for Mount Druitt High School 1996 for NSW HSC results - showing a picture of the complete class without permission from each student! Our local press Mount Mt Druitt Standard & St Marys-Mt Druitt Star care about our lovely area but major TV Stations only want to show negative of the area. Thank God my employer employer people from 2770 does SBS? Probably not! I'm actually suggesting there is a counter series called 'Success Streets of Mount Druitt- no SBS wouldn't do this they are all snobs, rich with no proper heart to care of our majority wonderful people!
Instant response provided to St Marys Mount Druitt Star Face Book:
What did you think of Struggle Street? Was it as bad as it was made out to be?
I
think that although it provided 3 isolated issues - it still made out
to be stereotyping Mount Druitt as a negative area 45 Kms away from
Sydney. This SBS portrayal that a majority of people are unemployed and
on welfare benefits. Showing how easy drugs
were available! How the young find hardship when living off the
streets: living house to house, how a large family survives, even with a
son on ice! The important issue that was a clear message was education
- which comes from one's own family and the educational system that is
around you and when applying for jobs there is still a negative stigma
with have a 2770 postcode as Mark Geyer has admitted. It was bad to show
it coming from Mount Druitt - remember the article on Mount Druitt High
School in 1996! I still think show good people, the majority of our
young are getting educated, qualified and getting jobs - why not show
goodness - people that will be looked onto as roll models for our area!
People that have made success and love the area! I'm not really placing
a like on this comment!
I will see that 'Success Streets' happens in Mount Druitt, with others on my side!
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