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Trisha Morton-Thomas, Craig Anderson
Australia has more than 100,000 years of black history yet when the non-Aboriginal Australians began to build their country on top of Aboriginal peoples' lands, they believed that the Aboriginal population would die out.
Luckily they were wrong,…
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Glenda Hambly
Homeland Story is an intimate portrait of Donydji (pronounced doy-n-ji), a small Aboriginal community in North East Arnhem Land, about 800 kms east of Darwin, in the far north of Australia.
Homelands are situated on the land of the people who live…
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Chynna Campbell
Something is happening in one of the hottest and most remote places of the world: In the small Aboriginal community of Ieramagadu (Roebourne), Western Australia, an unlikely group of 11-year olds wearing found objects, wacky hats and face paint…
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David Noakes
On 1 May 1946, 800 Aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north-west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a carefully organised strike that was to last for at least three years, but never officially ended.
The strike…
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Dena Curtis
Ethel and her friend Mary are pensioners who meet regularly to play cards. But do they really play cards?
Hush takes you into Mary's house and lets you observe what really happens. The revelation starts slowly when it is revealed that one of the…
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Steven McGregor
On the Tiwi Islands, just north of Darwin, Australian Rules is a religion. In a League Of Their Own is a three-part series that celebrates the passion and the brand of the all-Aboriginal Tiwi Bombers as they join the highly competitive Northern…
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Maya Newell
Ten-year-old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter, speaks two Aboriginal languages, but is ‘failing’ in school.
With little space in the Western system for Dujuan’s language and culture, his grandmother Carol is fighting a loving battle to give…
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Tom Murray
In My Father's Country is a feature documentary which takes your inside the Dhuruputji community in remote Australia as it prepares a young boy for a ritual initiation ceremony.
Handled with great sensitivity and humour, In My Father's Country…
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Erica Glynn
Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstaking but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives.
"They…
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Dean Gibson
Australia was founded with a clear purpose, to create a prison island. 230 years later, our incarceration rates are amongst the highest in the world, costing our nation billions of dollars. But the most devastating cost is the erosion of the…
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Larissa Behrendt
Innocence Betrayed follows the parents of three murdered Aboriginal children and the highs and lows of their 23 year long fight for justice.
Aunty Muriel, Aunty Rebecca and Uncle Thomas share their tragic stories of loss, which happened in the…
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Steven McGregor
John Howard introduced the Intervention legislation in July 2007. Two years later, an official United Nations rapporteur on human rights described the policy as an “extraordinary measure which infringes on the rights and determinations of Indigenous…
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Bjorn Stewart
Invasion of the Killer Natives is a horror comedy film about a British couple who try to make a new life in the new colony of Sydney, but soon find themselves under threat from the zombie natives.After being infected with small pox, the Aboriginal…
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Kelrick Martin
In the late 1960's, many Torres Strait Islander men made the long journey to the Pilbara in Western Australia to build railways between remote mines in the desert and ports like Port Hedland on the coast.
Over the years these Islanders created a…
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Gillian Coote
When Eliza Fraser was shipwrecked off the coast of Queensland in 1836, eventually landing on the coast of what was to become known as Fraser Island, there were up to 3000 Aboriginal people living there. By 1905, only 20 or 30 remained.
Gillian…
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Oomera Coral Edwards
This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra.
The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children…
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David Vadiveloo
There are only a few great tales of true resistance in our nations' history, tales that inspire us to believe that in the fight impossible odds can be beaten. This is such a story. Ynonne Margarula is the unsung hero at its heart.
Only 24 members…
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Adrian Wills
Jinaali, a chubby young Aboriginal woman, works at a supermarket and is constantly bullied by her boss. He does not merit her 'equal opportunity line' initiative or forgive the mistakes she does.
When Jinaali watches television she sees an…
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Dena Curtis
Set in Central Australia in the 1940s, Aboriginal worker Jacob learns about the birth of his son while being out bush, fencing. When he returns from his work four months later he's in for a surprise.
He returns to his Aboriginal wife and looks at…
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Mitch (Michelle) Torres
Jandamarra's War is a documentary film that recreates the life of the almost mythic hero from the Bunuba Aboriginal people who led the resistance against colonial power in the Kimberley in the latter part of the 19th century.
Jandamarra's stand…
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Cornel Ozies
Situated south of Derby in the West Kimberley, Jarlmadangah is a unique community often hailed as ‘a model community’ for its many social and cultural achievements. At the centre of the story are two brothers, John and Harry Watson, Elders in the…
