On a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. And the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, whos officiating mass, the priest is dead. And one night, unceremoniously, a young indigenous boy is dumped on the doorstep of the monastery to be cared for as part of the reprehensible Government Policy of assimilation of indigenous children, in order to separate indigenous children from their culture. And this powerful spirituality of this young boy destabilises the surety of the catholic faith there, and these strange miracles start to happen. Which we see so vividly in the performance by this little boy, by aswan reid, just nine years old, and you cant take your eyes off him when hes on screen. Hes absolutely magnetic. Erm, i mean, we were so lucky to find him. I remember warwick. Warwick thornton and i started to have these conversations over the pandemic, as a lot of people did, you know, and he was talking about this story, and he said, but
Cabinet agency, and that s the department of justice under jeff sessions. what have the rollbacks been that have been rolling back quietly since the obama years? jeff session came into his position sort of as the archetypical attorney general you would have expected from donald trump s campaign. he is very, very toh on crime. crime is a huge problem that is increasing, so on and so rth. so theffts that we ve seen him undertake, for example, he has directed that the u.s. attorneys under his direction are going to have to charge the most the strongest possible charge they can apply to someone. they can no longer use flexibility in terms of whether or not they charge drug offenders under the maximum possible charge. they have to go for the maximum possible charge, which of course over the past couple of decades was one of the main reasons the prison population blew up in the way that it did. because people would be being sentenced to jail for these long-terms. there are also additiona
Certainly there is going to be a loft focus on russia going forward. but you would hope that some of these stories about what s going on in terms of that and in terms of these proposed budget cuts as well as some of the members, folks who she is staffing up with. she hired a lawyer apparently who is also heavy into public choice and has worked for some of these for profit colleges that are under federal investigation. other than that, everything going swimmingly. philip bump across town in washington, to a different cabinet agency. and that s the department of justice under jeff sessions. what have the rollbacks been that have been rolling back quietly since the obama years? jeff sessions came into his position sort of as the archetypical attorney general that you would have expected from donald trump s campaign. he is very, very tough on crime. crime is a huge problem that is increasing, so on and so forth. so the efforts that we ve seen him under take, for example, he has direc
Philip bump across town in washington to a different cabinet agency, and that s the department of justice under jeff sessions. what have the rollbacks been that have been rolling back quietly since the obama years? jeff session came into his position sort of as the archetypical attorney general you would have expected from donald trump s campaign. he is very, very tough on crime. crime is a huge problem that is increasing, so on and so forth. so the efforts that we ve seen him undertake, for example, he has directed that the u.s. attorneys under his direction are going to have to charge the most the strongest possible charge they can apply to someone. they can no longer use flexibility in terms of whether or not they charge drug offenders under the maximum possible charge. they have to go for the maximum possible charge, which of course over the past couple of decades was one of the main reasons the prison population blew up in the way that it did.