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Battleground Melbourne is a 2022, Australian documentary directed by Topher Field, and produced by Anonymous. It is Topher Fields debut, long-form documentary and was released on YouTube on 13th January 2022.

This documentary tells the story of Victoria, during the COVID-19 pandemic and under the direction of Premier Daniel Andrews. Eventually Melbourne became the most locked-down city on Earth. Temporary health orders, of two weeks to ‘flatten the curve’ evolved into permanent infringements on civil liberty that culminated in major protests.

Summary
Battleground Melbourne charts the fall of the World's Most Liveable City, through the eye's of those who risked everything to save it. With the arrival of Covid in early 2020, events began to unfold in Victoria much as they had unfolded elsewhere in the world, but all that soon changed and Victoria embarked on a bold and destructive mission to eradicate Covid entirely. Lockdowns were extraordinarily long and harshly enforced, the mental, economic, and social harms were astronomical, and the protests and push back from the people of Victoria was brutally repressed. This feature length documentary is presented from the perspective of the protesters and their supporters, to address many of the baseless smears and lazy attacks from Government, Police, and Media alike, and ensure that the people of Melbourne who stood up for Human Rights when it mattered most cannot simply be erased from history. Mixing interviews with eye-witnesses with news reports and with gritty real-world footage from the front lines, Battleground Melbourne is confronting, raw, heartbreaking, yet funny and hopeful too. This is the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of terrible opposition, and standing their ground for their rights and their children's future.

Release
The film's premiere was held on YouTube on January 13, 2022 and garnered approximately 250,000 views in the first 48 hours

Reviews
Listed on IMDB.com, it has received 2.4 stars out 10, from 700 reviewers, with many critical of the right-wing slant of the documentary. Bill Muehlenberg's, Culture Watch, reviewed Battleground Melbourne on 18th January 2022 and commented "This is a depressing but must watch documentary". User, rich-joy, from Caldron Pool stated "I consider this (in my most humble of opinions), to be probably the most important event in Australian history since the much-vaunted Eureka Stockade in 1854, which of course, also took place in Victoria". A staff writer from Caldron Pool notes over 200,000 views in two days and describes the documentary as "powerful". The headline from Avi Yemini, Rebel News Australia, depicts "Battleground Melbourne depicts city's fall into tyranny under Dan Andrews", stating that "Topher Field’s documentary brings together voices from all over the community to put the pandemic in perspective".