The Pool

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Australia boasts more than 100 ocean pools more than 1000 public pools and more than one million backyard pools We all have nostalgic memories of the pool visceral relief from the blistering heat the sting of chlorine the terror of the swimming carnival hot chips cold ice blocks poolside fashionfaux pas teenage hormones bombs and dives

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T1 EP.1 – Our Playground
55 min
TV-PG
We celebrate public pools ocean pools backyard pools motel pools Olympic pools Outback pools and the original pool the billabong revealing how this sacred space has seeped into Australian identity
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T1 EP.2 – Our Battleground
55 min
TV-PG
For women the pool was originally a battleground in the fight for the right to swim For Indigenous Australians a color bar was in force at the public pool across much of the continent until Charlie Perkinss Freedom Ride of 1965 famously broke through the turnstiles at Moree For diver Matthew Mitcham the pool was where he became Australias first openly gay Olympic hero
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