Seeing Green

Sunday Too Far Away: Animals, Gender and the Pastoral Industry

July 20, 2022 Season 2 Episode 4
Seeing Green
Sunday Too Far Away: Animals, Gender and the Pastoral Industry
Show Notes

From director Ken Hannam and starring Jack Thompson, 1975’s Sunday Too Far Away focuses on a group of shearers in the lead-up to strike action in the mid-1950s. The film follows Foley – a so-called ‘top dog’ shearer who returns reluctantly to a remote sheep station, despite having dreams of leaving the industry for good. There he engages in the typical shearers’ life – characterised by both camaraderie and fierce competition, hard-drinking and laconic humour. In this episode of Seeing Green, we explore how Sunday Too Far Away engages in a particular representation of the environment,  animals and making connections with contemporary industrial practices. 

In this episode:

Professor Therese Davis, Department Chair of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology and one of Seeing Green's executive producers. 

And Professor Ruth Abbey, Department Chair of Social Sciences also over at Swinburne University of Technology.