SBS has highlighted a minority of people that not only live in Mount Druitt, were showcased as being the people of Mount Druitt: the filthy images pointing directly from a beautiful scenic Sydney Harbor to a graffiti-ed house immediately, which as a nation people will always identify Mount Druitt area as.
SBS Producers and Managing Director Michael Ebeid have made their mark in Mount Druitt by dehumanising, sending wrong messages of how the majority of people live, stereotyping the area, not co-operating with local community organisations, community leaders, religious leaders and also local politicians.
Well, unbeknown to SBS Questions were raised in Q & A last night, where a majority of the time was spent discussing the overall not liked series. The major one being rather than spending $1M on a series give the funds to the community to assist the needy.
It was good to see there was passionate discussion from Federal Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Christian Porter, Federal Member of Blaxland, Jason Clare, Playwright Nakkia Lui (originally from Mount Druitt), Federal Member of Fairfax Clive Palmer and Political analyst Jennifer Hewitt.
Also included in the audience was Mayor of Blacktown City Council, Councilor Stephen Bali, students from Loyola College, Mount Druitt, representatives from Mount Druitt Learning Ground Click here and other educational organisations.
It was a robust discussions coming from all parties and as I watched the program, there wasn't one person that was happy with it, as in its contest it did not present the proper true good image of Mount Druitt. There was discussions of Government Funding being cut community organisations and what will all Governments do to assist. We understand that the Mr Christian Porter will refer to the Minister responsible thus we will see what happens.
Click here for Q & A 8th May 2015
Streets University looking to produce a series of videos that is the opposite of Struggle Street Click here for Story from Mount Druitt Standard. Something similar is something I was discussing with the Mayor last week.
Click here for 'Streets University' Mount Druitt
Next 2 episodes are on SBS tomorrow night from 8.30-10.30pm
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