Traditional owners reject Netflix ‘donation’ offer over Byron Baes | karlkwin
started by local filmmaker Tess Hall has attracted almost 10,000 signatures, a number marginally higher than the population of the town itself and about one-third of the population of the entire Byron Shire.
Netflix has confirmed that a donation was offered to Arakwal. A source close to the company added that the sum was not large, and that the company often made such offers to communities or organisations where it filmed, though generally does not like to draw attention to the fact.
Though there is little prospect of Netflix cancelling the show, Tess Hall remains hopeful that a name change might yet happen. “They could call itor whatever, just so long as they don’t name the town,” she said. “That way it’s less likely to draw the sort of people who just want to be Instagram famous here.”
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