Irene Warehouse is a six-part TV comedy series about the struggle to make a revolution, make love and make the rent.
A chosen family of punk activists have their lives turned upside down when Chrissie moves into the squat. She’s the younger sister of one of the housemates and has arrived in Melbourne from the country to study fitness at VU. When she inadvertently tips off the police about the hydroponics hustle run out of Irene, the housemates are forced to work day jobs for the first time in their lives. How do they participate in the very systems of capitalism that they’re simultaneously trying to smash?
Let the hair-brained schemes begin. Chrissie invents yogaerobics, fusing two things never intended to be together. Shanno’s attempts at a telemarketing job fail when he spends his days having D and Ms with prospective customers and selling nothing. Chrissie’s sister Meg decides to make and sell sustainable, re-usable period undies on Etsy by inexplicably sewing disposable pads into the seams of the undies. Nedjma tries to leverage her social media following to create queer feminist porn while Bird does their bit for the house by covering all of Footscray in graffiti art - in an attempt to drum up business for their graffiti removal enterprise. Seriously, what could go wrong? Meanwhile, the owner of the squat has been alerted of their presence and now they need to find a way of not being kicked out.
‘Activism should be fun - there should be joy in it.’ -Zelda D’Aprano
Right of Entry: a thrilling new Australian drama
When a worker dies on the job, WorkSafe investigator Hannah Fox has one mission: send culpable bosses to jail. With enough evidence, Fox can get workplace manslaughter charges laid, and guilty parties put away, before more innocent workers get injured or die on the job. But these are new, untested laws. And as Fox discovers, the justice system isn’t always just.
A former cop, Fox is tough, tenacious, wry-humoured - and feels a lot more than she lets on. She’s also driven by a quiet rage – at the boss who caused her father’s death on the job all those years back, at the system, and at herself, for never feeling like she’s enough. Fox’s single-minded drive is her greatest strength and her greatest liability. So when she gets the call to attend a workplace fatality, she has one mission: figure out if a boss is to blame, and if they are - get the evidence she needs to send them down. Fox investigates construction foremen, commercial farm operators, circus directors, school principals, restaurant managers - and everyone in between. As she discovers, each workplace has its own rules, politics, culture, secrets and turf wars that need decoding. And if Fox finds blood on the hands of those up the top - she will make them pay.
Up until recently, a boss found guilty of causing a worker's death would cop a fine, a slap on the wrist - and zero criminal conviction. But now, for the first time in history, new workplace manslaughter laws mean that Fox has a shot of sending them to jail. This is a new frontier of criminal law, only achieved off the back of a 30-plus year fight from the union movement to get these laws passed, and send a message once and for all to big business that they will be held to account for workplace safety. So the pressure's on for Fox to get convictions and prove that those hard-won laws have teeth.
But Fox knows from bitter personal experience, the justice system isn’t always just. Fox is often up against large corporations who know how to lawyer up and fast, and her own maddeningly risk-averse legal team, who need a monumental amount of convincing before they’ll consider sending a case up to the DPP - so Fox can have her day in court.
In the meantime, Fox is in a race against time to get to the bottom of these workplace deaths, before more innocent workers are injured - or worse.
61%: A feature in development
In the final weeks leading up to the marriage equality vote in Melbourne, nine vastly different lives collide in highly-charged storylines. As the film progresses, these stories weave together intricately against the backdrop of a raging debate that divided some and united others. 61% is a moving, funny and poignant exploration of prejudice, love, fear and redemption, set against the backdrop of a unique and game-changing time in Australia’s history.