Victorian council rejects Struggle Street application
More bad news for SBS series hoping to film in Sunshine & Broadmeadows.
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Victorian local councils Hume and Brimbank are adding to the thumbs down for SBS series Struggle Street.
Hume mayor Helen Patsikatheodorou said a request to film in Broadmeadows, north of Melbourne, had been refused.
“While many people in Broadmeadows face challenges, the suburb is home to some of the finest people you’ll ever meet,” she told the Herald Sun.
“The real story of Broadmeadows is one of pride and determination, and we won’t support anyone who wants to turn a person’s disadvantage into a TV show’s advantage.”
Plans to film in Sunshine, in western Melbourne, have also been given bad news after a permit application was deemed to be incomplete.
“Council won’t grant a ‘blanket permit’ that gives the production company free rein across the municipality,’’ Brimbank council administrators chairman John Watson said.
The news follows rejections by Brisbane Council and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
An SBS spokeswoman said Struggle Street was not a series about specific areas but universal socio-economic issues.
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4 Responses
Sam Newman and street Talk has done this sort of stuff for years.
It may be sensationalist and insensitive crap but it is not Council’s role to frustrate its production. Otherwise you’ll be adding A Current Affair and many other shows to the list as well.
Maybe North Korea could be an option as they probably offer greater freedom than some of these tyranical aussie councils. What are these councils hiding? Lousy delivery of services maybe…………
Could be. Broadmeadows & Sunshine are both multicultural / semi-industrial / once cheap-housing suburbs in councils run by Liberal government-appointed administrators, and Inala is a multicultural / light-industrial / ex-housing commission suburb in a solidly Labor electorate under a Liberal council. Maybe someone _is_ trying to sweep issues under the carpet 😉
FWIW, although I’ve never lived there, in my observation Inala’s reputation owes more to 30 or 40 year old prejudice than current reality. While there’s still the odd patch of poverty & boganity, you’d only have to walk 2 minutes in any direction and you’d be in a solidly middle/upper-middle class suburban street. And the shopping centre has some of _the_ _best_ Vietnamese food & pastries I’ve ever tasted!