Photo: Simon Conlon
Despite Australia’s ever-increasing cultural diversity, our mainstream media remains depressingly white. Everywhere we look, from soap operas and cinema to advertising and current affairs programs, we invariably see beauty and normality depicted as Caucasian. The legacy of this monocultural vision has in part inspired the latest production by Melbourne’s Westside Circus, a community arts company, some of whose young participants are confronted by the issue every day.
