Perspective issues mar an efficient if familiar drama that tries to use a white woman's true story as a Trojan Horse into Australia's brutish detention centers. To its credit, “Stateless” doesn’t ...
With one catastrophe rapidly replacing another one in our daily dialogue right now, it might be difficult to remember that -- along with everything else -- we are grappling with a major immigration ...
“Stateless” undoubtedly has its heart in the right place. And dramatically it’s pretty sturdy stuff. But man, is it tone-deaf, and the timing of its release makes that deafness all the more glaring.
In 2004, an Australian citizen named Cornelia Rau was wrongly imprisoned in an immigrant detention camp in her home country. Mentally ill and traumatized after time spent in a cult, Rau had claimed to ...
Although Netflix’s stash of prestige movies grows with every awards season, the still-dominant streaming service hasn’t concentrated as heavily upon comparable TV series. Given that those entries into ...
George Newhouse is a Director of the National Justice Project and an adjunct Professor of Law at Macquarie University. He worked on the ground breaking cases of Cornelia Rau and Vivian Solon. In ...
“Stateless” lives and dies with its true story. Co-created by Cate Blanchett, Tony Ayres, and Elise McCredle, the new Netflix limited series draws inspiration from the life of Cornelia Rau, a former ...