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CONTROVERSIAL TV SHAW * Australia - "Struggle Street it's an attack on the working class of our country"
* New South Wales - Garbage trucks protest against SBS show Struggle Street
(Video by Steven Lula - May 5, 2015: Garbage workers from Mt Druitt opposed to SBS' new documentary 'Struggle Street' stage a protest by blocking the entrance into SBS headquarters in Artarmon, Sydney)
-- It was a case of "waiting for garbo" outside the SBS studios in Artarmon on Wednesday morning as an epic press pack amassed for the arrival of 10 garbage trucks and their drivers' message: "We love Mount Druitt"... Led by the mayor of Blacktown, Stephen Bali, and flanked by representatives of Unions NSW, the group demanded SBS stop its planned broadcast on Wednesday night of the documentary Struggle Street, which depicts the lives of working-class families in parts of western Sydney... Mr Bali said that, in one scene to air on Wednesday night, subjects are depicted as having bought junk food using cash they had earned from a scrap metal merchant - but the junk food had been paid for by the producers... SBS says the show must - and will - go on... Fairfax Media was briefly shown an email sent to Kellie and SBS on Tuesday night containing a list of claims and complaints about the documentary, but Cr Bali said the full list and substantiating evidence would not be made public until Thursday - assuming the program was aired as scheduled on Wednesday night... There a 54-year-old from Willmot, near Mount Druitt, said her husband was diagnosed with dementia during the six months of filming, and that the trailer had led to her 19-year-old disabled daughter being identified and bullied... "Struggle Street it's an attack on the working class of Australia"... Bali said the issue "has united the whole of Sydney" and that the garbage trucks had received hundreds of toots of support on their pilgrimage from Mount Druitt to Artarmon... Cr Bali said legal advice indicated there was no possibility of getting an injunction against the documentary going to air. But he expected some of the individual subjects of the program would seek legal advice... Lawyer George Newhouse told the Guardian Australia he was investigating the possibility of legal action, including defamation suits, on behalf of some residents... It is not the first SBS program to attract controversy; the documentary Go Back To Where You Came From explored Australians' attitudes towards refugees, and the comedy Housos poked fun at socio-economically disadvantaged families living in housing commission estates...
Artarmon, Sydney, NSW, Australia - The Sydney Morning Herald, by Michael Koziol - May 6, 2015
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