Comedy’s changed quite a lot in the last fifteen years or so. But it appears no-one told the creators of Samantha Who?, writes Peter Mattessi.
Last fifteen years
Jon Altman: in the name of the market?
The last fifteen years have seen rapid growth in the Australian economy that has thrown into stark relief the relative poverty and fundamentally different living conditions of many Indigenous Australians. Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the Northern Territory, where over 80 per cent of the Indigenous population of 66 600 live in remote situations, primarily on Aboriginal-owned land, writes Jon Altman.
