Struggle Street on SBS — series 2

Be interesting to see how many watched it, seeing it was up against the ARIA Awards on 9! However uncomfortable it is to watch, I suspect we should all watch Struggle Street. Maybe it could replace the homily in every church in the land next Sunday! Maybe all those members of the House of Reps taking a break right now should be locked in a room and made to binge-watch!

I posted on the first series back in 2015.

My overall reaction to last night’s two hour episode was, as I said at the beginning, frequently to be moved and even inspired by much of what I saw, uncomfortable as other segments were. There is no doubt that one consistent theme was the deleterious effect governments’ cost-cutting can have and is having. The other thing is that I know by simple observation a parallel series could have been made here in Wollongong and some of its suburbs.

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This new series is even more disturbing than the first. See Dramatic new video of tragic life in new Struggle Street suburb and Struggle Street is back, and it’s infuriating.

This six-part SBS documentary series is nothing short of a masterpiece, truly deserving of the “essential viewing” tag. An unflinching look at poverty in Australia, it will – it should – leave you angry. 

1920: Wollongong

The Lost Wollongong page on Facebook posted this today.

That is Wollongong in 1920. Some of my Whitfield family were there or not too far south at that time. Which gives me a reason to remind you of a series I posted on Ninglun’s Specials last year, bringing together many scattered posts on family history going back to the 18th century. See for example 22 – Whitfields 1915 and 24 – Whitfields – 1917-1919.

 

Images from Wollongong 5 years ago

See more here and here.