We gave Australians access to a place

they’d never been before. The only

time they’d ever been to that community

or met kids like Samson and

Delilah was on the five o’clock news!

It’s made me so proud and so happy

that people were watching this film

and getting access to information they

didn’t have before.

In light of the Rudd Government’s

official 2008 apology to Australia’s

indigenous people for past wrongs,

Thornton believes Samson & Delilah

can also be seen as a back-handed

post-Sorry film.

‘“Sorry” doesn’t fill fridges, either,’ he

says. ‘It makes a lot of people stronger

and makes them take bigger steps

towards their future, but in my camp it

pretty well doesn’t mean anything.’

The ‘sorry’ word was designed for our

grandmothers, and it did work. But for

the Samson and Delilahs of the world

it doesn’t mean shit. When you’re

starving on the streets and you’re

homeless, that word just doesn’t cut