Sweet Country

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NITV  |  January 26, 2019

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Indigenous Australians
11-12
Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+) Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)

Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback.

Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback.

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Sweet Country

When an Aboriginal man goes on the lam after fatally shooting a World War One veteran, a rag tag group of mostly racist men hunt him down in an attempt to make him face justice. But when justice is served, an NT town struggles to let it stick.

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