General Information

Author/Creator

Balint, Ruth, director.

Language

English.

Published

Australia : McGowan, Jo-Anne, 2001.

Physical Description

VHS (54 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

In 1979 Australia expanded its territorial borders by 200 nautical miles to take advantage of the rich oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. For Centuries before, fishermen from the island of Roti in Indonesia were fishing for their livelihood in these same waters. Today they are regularly arrested for trespassing a border they cannot see, and are sent to gail for increasingly longer periods with no recourse to legal representation. They return home in debts many cannot foresee escaping from in their own lifetime. "Troubled Waters" investigates both the human and financial costs of Australia's current border protection policies and the story of a people evicted from their seas.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Duration: 00:54:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0901	Available	-	-