Overview
Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
Cast
- Abe Forsythe as Hal Fleming
- Geoff Morrell as Geoff Fleming
- Elena Carapetis as Gemma
- Bojana Novaković as Randa
- Matthew Le Nevez as Bullet Sheather
- Abbie Cornish as Tracey
- Katie Wall as Belinda
- Gyton Grantley as Shane Sheather
- Scott Swalwell as Jamie
- Lech Mackiewicz as Hassan