Island Home Country is a one hour documentary about Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present. The film offers insights into how various individuals reckon with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race based policies.

The six chapters of the DVD: "Amnesia, Possession, Memory, Mourning, Encounter, Reckoning" open out and analyse the protocols process that the film engaged in - marked by the Howard era at the beginning of the film, to the historic moment of the Australian Government’s 2008 Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples at its close.
"Island Home Country" is a ‘working through’ of a white settler filmmaker’s encounter with the legacies of British colonialism, a Tasmanian Aboriginal protocols process, as well as being a document of an inner and outer journey.



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Island Home Country is a one hour documentary about Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present. The film offers insights into how various individuals reckon with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race based policies.

The six chapters of the DVD: "Amnesia, Possession, Memory, Mourning, Encounter, Reckoning" open out and analyse the protocols process that the film engaged in - marked by the Howard era at the beginning of the film, to the historic mom... (read more)