Investigative journalist John Pilger alerted me to an Australia vastly different from the one I thought I knew, when I saw a documentary he’d made in the 90’s about Indigenous Australians. Pilger doesn’t pull punches. His aim is not just to uncover the truth – but to tell it no matter how uncomfortable it might be to hear, or see. As you would expect, he is very unpopular in mainstream media and politics. In short, they hate him – especially here in Australia. But that hatred doesn’t change the facts or the real history of this country. Nor does it stop Pilger delivering the truth in a calm, rational and dignified manner. His latest documentary will likely slip through the cracks in Australia – at a time when it absolutely shouldn’t.

Fires out.