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Big Brother of Christmas Island

Jan 1, 1999 · 57m
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Documentary

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Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.

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CAST

John Stanton
Narrator (voice)
Gordon Bennett
Himself (archive footage)
Directed by Mathew Kelley

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Original language
EN
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Country
US, AU
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