#shareena clanton

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From Shareena Clanton’s Instagram: 

Struggling to post anything positive about the months I endured on neighbours after multiple racist traumas and navigating ongoing counselling from this highly problematic show. It’s been lonely, triggering and traumatising to work in such a culturally unsafe space.

To avoid any lawsuit by the production or a potential defamation case, I have not included any specific names and made it non-identifiable in what I’m about to reveal to you:

-A Head of Department thought it funny and appropriate to openly laugh at the word “cum slut” by a cast member who loudly spoke about “cum”, “cum”, “cum” in front of other cast and crew.

-Due to my insistence of engaging a Wurundjeri Elder to be included for ongoing cultural safety reasons like cultural protocols followed and debriefing, I was told “this is not a film production, Shareena.” and that “we simply don’t have the budget”. The humble few hundred dollars a week Aunty and I proposed was in contrast to the thousands of dollars actors were receiving each pay. I paid Aunty directly out of my own income to make up for this “lack of budget”.

-A senior staff member openly laughed whilst using the term “slave driver” in reference to him “working hard”. My management at the time didn’t help as they endorsed/encouraged this “office banter”. I fired the agent.

-Overt and covert levels of racism were rife, often disguised as “jokes” like a white actress openly calling another actress of colour a “lil’ monkey”.

-Twice I endured the “N”-word openly being used on-set and in the green room. I was even told to “go somewhere else” by staff when confronting the actor directly because I was making others “uncomfortable”.

-A white actress openly laughed at the racist “N”-word to only lie about laughing about it when questioned by HR. She said that I “misconstrued” what she was “laughing at” and that she was laughing at “something else”. That is a blatant lie.

-The retaliation for calling out this misconduct and racism often left me ostracised and further marginalised. In what was meant to have HR follow up and discuss this led to them saying they were unsure of “what else they could do”.

I’ll never work for this show again.

Further Comments

I asked them to please include a cultural elder and knowledge keeper of the Country we were working on which the production films. This is Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country. I am from Noongar Country. I was employed as a cultural consultant for my Noongar knowledge systems and since I was representing our culture, my Noongar language which I had permission to share and use on set and in the script, I also spoke of the need to engage with a cultural Elder not just for my own benefit and ensuring the right protocols were kept, but for the production’s benefit. Employing a cultural Elder is a respectful part of the necessary protocols of engagement with First Nations people when dealing with First Nation’s cultural content.

Believe the horror stories. I’ve only encapsulated some of the key things I was subjected to. I didn’t have enough space to talk about the micro aggressions of toxicity prevalent, the sexist and misogynistic commentary, the disrespectful and crude statements made every day, the deliberate ostracisation of those who called it out and the abhorrent levels of bullying.

That script (Invasion Day Episode), I actually helped re-write and did not get any writing credits in doing so. It is virtue signalling without action. The entire production needs a complete shift in cultural education and also reintroduce training around workplace integrity updated codes of conduct. I took it to the Executives and HR of Fremantle who have done little except noted these concerns, offered just “four sessions” of counselling and forced the individual who said the “N-word” to have compulsory workplace training on a mandatory week where they were stepped down to consider their words and workplace behaviour, but nothing has changed and the culture of complicity continues. I spoke out with HR and internally and often called it out over and over and over again. I am speaking out so that my community and wider audiences are aware of how toxic that workplace is and had become.

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