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A Study Guide by Marguerite O'hara A STUDY GUIDE BY MARGUERITE O’HARA www.theoasismovie.com.au www.abc.net.au/tv/oasis www.metromagazine.com.au Introduction A feature documentary about Australia’s homeless youth On any night in Australia, 22,000 teenagers are homeless. This film tells some of their d<:8LJ<K?<PeI<KFL>?B@;J stories. OASIS is a shelter for homeless young people in Surry ;F<JEeKD<8EN<J?FLC; Hills in inner-city Sydney. It is GLKK?<D@EK?<KFF ?8I; run by The Salvation Army. This observational documentary 98JB<K8E;9<C@<M<K?8K follows the daily lives of both EFK?@E>:8E<M<I:?8E>< e the young people and the Salvation Army staff who care for them and work with them – Captain Paul Moulds, Director of the Oasis Youth Refuge to try and make a difference in their lives. The film takes an unflinching look at the difficulties and triumphs that happen each day and night. Many of these young people have ongoing problems with drug abuse; some of them can be violent, abusive and out of control; some of them seem resistant to attempts to help; they stuff up. But, whatever is happening in their lives, Paul and Robbin Moulds are there to work with them to assist in turning lives around through supporting them, however often they fall down. They don’t always succeed and unlike many ‘reality’ television programs there are no cash prizes or instant celebrity for any of these people. When you see Paul and Robbin Moulds, you understand the slogan ‘Thank God for the Salvos’. SCREEN EDUCATION 2 Synopsis Darren is the kind of kid the world has written off. Abandoned by his mother at 8, bashed into intensive care by his foster carers at 10, he spiralled into drug addiction and has lived hard on the street dramas. Paul is present at the apartment, and walks the for over a decade. But since he birth of new babies and there to streets with the Salvos outreach turned up on the doorstep of conduct the funerals of those van intercepting a fifteen-year- OASIS, a grimy red-brick youth who self-destruct prematurely. old girl who has naively arrived refuge in inner-city Sydney, with On the wall of his cluttered office in Sydney’s notorious red- nowhere else to go, one person in which many kids have found light district, Kings Cross, in has been there for him around temporary salvation hangs his midwinter with nowhere to stay. the clock: Captain Paul Moulds. life’s mission statement: ‘I want Tireless and non judgemental, Father figure, counselor, saviour, to run a rescue shop within a his life’s passion is to salvage and an orphan himself, Paul yard of hell’. this wasted generation from the wreckage of their lives. is nothing short of a legend Today he stops a kid from amongst kids like Darren, who burning OASIS down, deals Often it’s hard to comprehend stumble into OASIS at breaking with Darren having a psychotic what keeps Paul buoyant point. No story is too horrific, no episode, and picks up young when positive change is so circumstance too dire, no kid mum, Emma, and her new painstakingly incremental too damaged. During his chaotic baby from hospital, and moves amongst his extended family. twenty-five years of service he them into his family home But he’s prepared to stick with has helped hundreds of young until he can secure suitable Haley for the long haul, even if people deal with unspeakable accommodation. Tonight he is she has failed to show up for childhood traumas, chronic drug forced to kick a group of boys several appointments to book addictions, mental illnesses, off the property, sets up Owen into detox. ‘Every kid deserves and all of street life’s other in his first ever independent a thirteenth chance’, he shrugs with a smile. Charting Paul’s struggle to improve the fraught lives of the OASIS kids, this raw observational documentary filmed over two years, is a tribute to the power of one man’s persistence in the face of seemingly unrelenting darkness. As time unfolds, some kids pull themselves out of misfortune and aspire to greater things, while others sink deeper into addiction and desperation. In the midst of all the chaos Paul battles unflinchingly on to save these lost children, and reflects on his own past along the way. SCREEN EDUCATION 3 Curriculum Relevance This is a confronting and moving observational documentary about the lives of people many Australians often only see and avoid on the streets. It would be an excellent film to show to middle and senior secondary students of Society AND%NVIRONMENT3/3%(3)% Values Education, Religion and Society, Health and Human Development, Community Development Studies, either narration or leading the Psychology, English and Media Student Activity 1 subjects in interview. Studies. The film is rated M. Before Watching the The activities and information in This picture of one aspect Documentary this guide are designed to help of contemporary society students to: s 7HATDOES@HOMEMEANTOYOU is stark; the language is s7HATDIFFERENCEISTHEREIN confronting and some scenes A $EVELOPANUNDERSTANDING meaning between ‘home’ and are distressing, though the of the dimensions of @HOUSE film is not at all depressing. homelessness. It raises a number of issues B %NCOURAGETHEMTOSEE s)S@SHELTERMORETHANJUSTA about social responsibility and how committed and ROOFOVERYOURHEAD commitment; the consequences caring management and s7HATWOULDYOUMISSMOSTIF of both substance abuse intervention can make a you could not continue living and homelessness and how difference in people’s lives. ATHOMEWITHYOURFAMILY solutions to these problems might be best funded and C %MPATHISEWITHTHE s7HATISYOURIMAGEOFA individuals and the managed. For Media Studies typical homeless street challenges they face. students, the skilful editing and PERSON placement of stories drawn D 5NDERSTANDHOWAN s)N4ABLEONPAGE from filming over more than observational documentary make a list of some of the a year offers a fine example can be constructed to reasons why people may find of the power of observational present a detailed and themselves homeless. In the documentary making, where the complex picture of a right-hand column make a commitment of the filmmakers relatively hidden aspect of list of the related difficulties is clearly expressed through society. homelessness can lead to in their film, rather than through people’s lives. SCREEN EDUCATION 4 Table 1 Reasons for becoming homeless What else may follow? Family breakdown Loss of affection, company and support of family s7HOSHOULDTAKElNANCIAL s$OYOUGIVETOACHARITY s4ABLEONPAGE OUTLINES and social responsibility for Have you volunteered to work a number of situations, or helping ‘homeless’ people – FORACHARITY scenarios, that young people ,OCAL 3TATEANDOR&EDERAL may find themselves in that s(AVEYOUEVERBOUGHTORREAD Governments, charitable and result in them becoming a copy of The Big Issue from religious organisations such homeless. Fill in the second ASTREETSELLER7HATDOYOU as The Salvation Army, St and third columns to indicate KNOWABOUTTHISPUBLICATION Vincent de Paul Society, The what options may be Brotherhood of St Laurence, available to them in finding a Mission Australia – or should place to live. it be a whole community RESPONSIBILITY SCREEN EDUCATION 5 Table 2 The home front Where do you go What longer term immediately? accommodation do you find? You are fourteen and have dropped out of school. Your parents are angry about this and there is constant fighting. You walk out one day. Your mum’s boyfriend is a heavy drinker and becomes violent and abusive to her and to you. After a really bad incident you decide anywhere’s better than home. One of your parents has lost their job and as they are unable to pay the rent, they have decided to move to a country town. You’re not prepared to do this so you leave home and school. There are so many people living on and off in your house that you have no privacy or space and there are constant arguments and fights. You leave. To support a drug habit you start stealing from your family and they kick you out. You become pregnant when you are fifteen. Your parents want you to have a termination but you are determined to have the baby. They make it clear you’re not welcome at home because of the shame you’ve brought on the family. SCREEN EDUCATION 6 About Homelessness1 s/NANYSINGLENIGHTATLEAST 100,000 Australians are homeless, without safe, secure or affordable housing. While some find a bed in a refuge, often run by a religious organisation, many disabilities; increases in s!BORIGINALAND4ORRES more are turned away and incidence of women and Strait Islander people are sleep ‘rough’ on the streets or children fleeing domestic over represented in the under bridges or in parks or in violence; decrease in boarding homeless service system. derelict buildings or cars. house and other low-cost While they comprise two to s/NEINEVERYTHREEHOMELESS accommodation; shifts in three per cent of the total !USTRALIANSOVER IS patterns of substance abuse population, they represent aged between twelve and and availability of illicit drugs; sixteen per cent of people twenty-five. It is difficult to changes to the structure of using homeless assistance collect accurate figures on the labour market with fewer services. youth homelessness as much jobs for low-skilled people. s(OMELESSNESSANDMENTAL of it is hidden; many young s-OREWOMENEXPERIENCE illness are closely associated people who are homeless homelessness than men. with substance abuse, poor stay with friends and family Domestic violence is the employment prospects, and members, camp out or live in major cause of homelessness the inability to secure and squats. for women. maintain accommodation. s%VERYDAY HALFTHEPEOPLE who request immediate accommodation from the homeless service system are turned away.
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