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When a young Aboriginal woman flees a cataclysmic event in her personal life, she finds herself involved with a mismatched group of doomsday preppers.
Affiliation Notes
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Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database
This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat- A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
- The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper.
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
As a tier one work, this particular text has been identified as adhering to all three of the prepper criteria as outlined in the project definition and thus is of particular importance as a prepper text in the AustLit database. This work is one of the few examples within an Australian context that we have identified as pertaining to prepping according to our robust definition. These texts contain at least one prepper character and are in direct conversation with prepping as a movement, subculture, ideology, and set of behaviours.
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Works about this Work
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Nakkiah Lui on Public Shaming and Her Doomsday Comedy : ‘Prepping for the Worst Is Something I’ve Inherited’
Maddison Connaughton
(interviewer),
2021
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 November 2021;'The star of new ABC series Preppers muses on turning hate mail into humour and finding ‘a great white ally’ in her partner and co-writer Gabriel Dowrick.'
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Preppers Is a Deep Reading of Colonial Violence – and a Hilarious, Must-watch Aussie TV Comedy
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 November 2021;
— Review of Preppers 2021 series - publisher film/TV'A sophisticated multi-layered critique of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy with an all-star Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cast (along with some well-known non-Indigenous personalities playing an assortment of “allies”), Preppers is hilarious.'
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Preppers Is a Deep Reading of Colonial Violence – and a Hilarious, Must-watch Aussie TV Comedy
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 November 2021;
— Review of Preppers 2021 series - publisher film/TV'A sophisticated multi-layered critique of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy with an all-star Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cast (along with some well-known non-Indigenous personalities playing an assortment of “allies”), Preppers is hilarious.'
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Nakkiah Lui on Public Shaming and Her Doomsday Comedy : ‘Prepping for the Worst Is Something I’ve Inherited’
Maddison Connaughton
(interviewer),
2021
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 November 2021;'The star of new ABC series Preppers muses on turning hate mail into humour and finding ‘a great white ally’ in her partner and co-writer Gabriel Dowrick.'