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'Jonah From Tonga takes us on an adventurous journey into the life of 14-year-old rebellious schoolboy Jonah Takalua, his family, friends and the crew of teachers and counsellors who are exhaustively trying to help him channel his seemingly limitless energy into bigger and brighter things.' (Publication summary)
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Jonah from Tonga
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
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2014
8031041
2014
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graphic novel
'After being expelled from Summer Heights High, Jonah Takalua was banished to Tonga to live with his Uncle Mamafu, but now he is causing more trouble than ever. Sent back to Sydney, Jonah wants to make his family proud, but while Jonah might be in a new school, he is still up to his old tricks: gangs and graffiti, fights and frenemies, breakdancing and law-breaking.
'Revisit the antics of Jonah, the teenage Tongan rebel, and meet his Fobba-licious crew in this full-colour graphic novel adaptation of Chris Lilley's hilarious hit television series.' (Publication summary)
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It’s Shit to Be White
2020
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— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;'I didn’t invent the White Australia Policy. White people invented it. And they invented it to distinguish themselves from Aboriginals, Africans, Asians, Arabs and Pasifikas. And they didn’t invent it to distinguish themselves in the negative; only in the positive, with greater rights to the stolen land on which they gathered than the rest of us. And while White people knew that they were not literally the colour white—most of their kind were somewhere between pink and beige—they did not seem confused about the term, fully aware that it referred to them and taking great pride in their sense of superiority over anyone that was ‘not quite White’. White people took no offence in White’s metaphorical nature, no offence in White’s overgeneralisation, and they did not seek out any of their dictionaries to double-check White’s definition.' (Introduction)
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Netflix Has Quietly Removed Four of Chris Lilley's Shows, but It Didn't Go Unnoticed
2020
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , June 2020; -
Permission to Laugh? Humour Without Risk of Danger and Offence Would Be an Emaciated Thing
2017
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 November 2017; -
Chris Lilley's Jonah from Tonga Withdrawn by New Zealand's Māori Television
2017
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 July 2017;'NZ minister says the Australian comedy television series ‘perpetuates negative stereotypes of Pacific people’.'
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Blackface in a White Nation
2014
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— Appears in: Overland [Online] , May 2014;
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Jonah from Tonga Series Review : Moments of Anguish and Penis Jokes
2014
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 May 2014;
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He's Vulgar, He's an Idiot and He's Back
2014
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— Appears in: The Age , 7 May 2014; (p. 50) The Canberra Times , 7 May 2014; (p. 19)
— Review of Jonah from Tonga 2014 series - publisher film/TV -
Learn to Love Jonah, and His Creator
2014
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— Appears in: The Age , 15 May 2014; (p. 8)
— Review of Jonah from Tonga 2014 series - publisher film/TV -
Jonah Breaks Rules with Online First
2014
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 April 2014; (p. 11) -
Lilley Breaks New Ground
2014
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— Appears in: The Age , 1 May 2014; (p. 2) -
Revenge of the Remedial Rebel
2014
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Man of Many Faces
2014
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— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 4 May 2014; -
Jonah's Issues Are No Laughing Matter
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 May 2014; (p. 15)