DESCRIPTION:
MUSIC BY FELIX RIEBL
WRITTEN BY FELIX RIEBL AND BRIGGS
PRODUCED BY OLLIE MCGILL

VIDEO EXECUTED BY HEATH KERR & JOSH DAVIS

VIDEO CREW

Director
Josh Davis

Director of Photography
Heath Kerr

Gaffer
Andrew Dunnmoore

1st AC
Ben Starr

Key Grip
Richard Allardice

Stills
Bruce Davis

CAST

MARLIYA singers of Gondwana Choirs

Briggs
B.D Lewis
Alex Siddons

VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO VA HIRE MELBOURNE
AND EVERYONE WHO GAVE THEIR TIME & SPIRIT TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

Film clip executions
E:1984films@iinet.net.au

LYRICS

Why’re the kids locked up?
Take this silence and blow it up
Why they go so young?
Falling sisters and burning sons

They put our kids in the system
Findings, reports, and royal commissions
Numbers, statistics when they’re making decisions
Assess the risks and build another prison
Got a license for a car they under staffed
Positions need filling and they need another guard
Who’s lighting their path when they’re frightened in the dark
They got spit hoods understood that it’s for their own good
And you expect them to act when they get told they’re no good
Stand them in line and you make them go last
False starts everyone runs past
And you tell them catch up while they’re choking on dust
Blow it up, throw it up
Carve our name on the frame so they know it’s us
I’ll tell them where I’m at and they can follow me
Remember that they’re kids not a campaign policy
Isolate the individual
Separated from their families, visits and intervals
Maximum punishment, rehab is minimal
Treat them like that you just make them better criminals

Why’re the kids locked up?
Take this silence and blow it up
Why they go so young?
Falling sisters and burning sons

Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why’d she go so young?
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why’d she get locked up at all?

Not going to disappear
We still here
Scream in your other ear
You will hear
Not going to disappear
We still here
Just cos they’ve been locked up
Let’s go
This cut’s a cut on us
You feel that?
This shame is all of us
You feel that
This justice isn’t just
No peace
This count’s not adding up
Let’s go

Locked up
Locked down
No justice
No peace!

“The vicious cycle remains the same. Indigenous people are more likely to come to the attention of the police, Indigenous people who come to the attention of the police are more likely to be arrested and charged, Indigenous people who are charged are more likely to go to court, Indigenous people who appear in court are more likely to go to jail. Indigenous youth now comprise over 50% of juveniles in detention. The statistics speak for themselves and the cold hard fact remains an indictment on all of us.”

- Senator Patrick Dodson