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form y separately published work icon Mystery Road single work   film/TV  
Alternative title: Moree Girls
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Mystery Road
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Jay Swan, a detective, returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found near a trucking route out of town.

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  • Prequel to Goldstone.

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Animals in Quarantine : Biosecurity Vs. Biodiversity Iris Ralph , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: ANQ , vol. 35 no. 4 2022; (p. 388-397)

'There are important connections between human and nonhuman animals in quarantine that have implications for biosecurity laws and the loss of biodiversity in Australia. The laws typically function as thinly disguised quarantine legislation and are wide-sweeping, manifestly averse to biodiversity, and mostly supportive of the primary animal agriculture industries of cattle and sheep farming. The undeclared and evident hostility to biodiversity that the laws represent is increasing, not reducing the risk of pandemics. Zoonosis, or the transfer of a disease from a nonhuman to human animal, triggers pandemics, and diseased animals are rife in animal agriculture, in other areas of food production where nonhuman animals are trafficked, and in rural and other outback environments where animal agriculture interests are eroding or deeply compromising biodiversity. Reducing the phenomenon of humans in quarantine means questioning animal agriculture and the biosecurity laws that support it. This kind of questioning appears in aesthetic responses to animal agriculture and the ecophobic, speciesist, and anthropocentric contours of that agriculture. The crime thriller film Mystery Road, directed by First Nations Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen, represents that questioning. Subtly but powerfully, the film castigates animal agriculture’s targeting of wild dog and other wild animal populations for eradication and cows and sheep and other industrially farmed animals for reduction to lumps of meat. This targeting foments antagonisms between biosecurity and biodiversity, legitimizes the practices of quarantining many animals for much of their lives, and paves the way for humans serving time in quarantine.' (Publication abstract)

Jay Swan Is Back : Series Return Reflects Growing Energy and Enthusiasm for Black Storytelling Kirk Page , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 723 2020; (p. 9-11)
'Director Warwick Thornton believes there's no secret as to why audiences love Mystery Road, the TV series starring Aaron Pederson as Detective Jay Swan.'
Mystery of What to Watch Is Now Solved 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 723 2020; (p. 1)
An Open Letter to Jay Swan Anne Rutherford , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 24 no. 2 2020;
Hero or Dupe : Jay Swan and the Ambivalences of Aboriginal Masculinity in the Films of Ivan Sen Barry Judd , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cinematic Settlers : The Settler Colonial World in Film 2020; (p. 115-126)
Outback Western Takes Slow Road to Festival Opening Night Garry Maddox , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 June 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV
Weaving His Way Through Mystery Fiona Purdon , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 October 2013; (p. 14)

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV
Mystery Road : A Visual, Haunting Experience in a World in Desperate Need of Justice Woolombi Waters , 2013 single work column review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 9 October vol. 12 no. 332 2013; (p. 17)

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV
A Sinister Landscape Sandra Hall , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 October 2013; (p. 14)

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV
Fine Outback Western Takes Satisfying Turns Craig Mathieson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 October 2013; (p. 8) The Sunday Age , 13 October 2013; (p. 15)

— Review of Mystery Road Ivan Sen , 2013 single work film/TV
Promising Excursion along Mystery Road Michael Bodey , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 June 2012; (p. 15)
Winton Impresses as Setting for Matilda Movie Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2012; (p. 16)
State's Other Sen-sational Film Director Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 December 2012; (p. 44)
Real-Life Killings Collide with Weaving's Reel Life Garry Maddox , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 May 2013; (p. 12)
A Mystery Marketer at Film Festival Daisy Dumas , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 June 2013; (p. 18)
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