Done Dale Detention Interview with USA journalist
ABC Law Report excerpt 8 August 2016 Full Report Herehttp://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/nt-juvenile-justice-legal-framework/7677530
15m Aug 02, 2016
15m
The Boys Club
3m Jul 30, 2016
3m
Barbara Shaw, Tangentyere Womans Council: Youth Detention Debacle
Verteran Aboriginal rights campaigner, member of the Tangentyere Womans Council and town camper Barbara Shaw comments on the youth detention debacle
6m Jul 28, 2016
6m
Nigel Scullion: My interest wasn't aroused enough to watch 4 corners
Minister Scullion tells media that he didn't watch ‪‎FourCorners‬ live as he was out for dinner, later watching it after a "fairly agitated" PM called him. ABC Darwin
1m Jul 27, 2016
1m
Queensland youth detention just as bad as Northern Territory: Aboriginal barrister
An Indigenous barrister in Queensland alleges the treatment of children in youth detention centres in his state is just as bad as that seen in the Northern Territory. He wants the Royal Commission broadened to include all Australian youth detention facilities. ABC News
2m Jul 26, 2016
2m
Restarting a Nation - Euahlayi Peoples Republic
In the east of the land that Europeans named Australia, a nation has been reborn. Its new head of state knows where his people lit their campfires, long ago. Now he has declared independence – and they're not the first to break away. In the past our peoples often told some tall tales to the anthropologists and researchers to keep their true stories within it's rightful place. Many stories coul...
2m Jul 26, 2016
2m
Lasting effects of trauma reaches across generations through DNA
CBC Radio - Canada Indigenous elders often say that memory is in the blood and bone, that our stories are passed not just verbally but through a kind of genetic memory. Well, it turns out that may not be far from the truth. Amy Bombay is Anishinaabe from Rainy River First Nation in Ontario. Amy Bombay and familyAmy Bombay with her family. (courtesy Amy Bombay)She's an assistant professor of ...
6m Jul 18, 2016
6m
Bob Hawke's ongoing calls for a Nuclear Waste Dump on Aboriginal Land
Since he was Prime Minister Bob Hawke has been calling for a Nuclear Watse dump on Aboriginal Land - It's a Win-Win situation This Audio from 'The Wire' 2014
4m Jul 11, 2016
4m
Kennedy Hill, adjacent to multi million dollar resorts - ABC Report 2010 (Excerpt)
An excerpt from ABC 2010 report when people were moving into the Kennedy Hill area after being hunted off country by the WA government and mining companies.
1m Jul 09, 2016
1m
Many current Aboriginal policies 'absurd', says leading academic
TRANSCRIPT MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: A number of leading Australian academics are expressing deep concern about the viability of many government Aboriginal community programmes. At a book launch in Sydney's inner west, researchers vented their frustrations at policy makers using words like "shameful" and "absurd" to describe many projects currently being implemented in outback communities. Our rep...
3m Jul 07, 2016
3m
Bruce Pascoe on pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculture
Bruce is a prolific writer and editor of fiction for adults and young people; and he also writes essays and history. His book Dark Emu presents a radically different picture of Australia's original inhabitants, and how they maintained their culture over millennia. From the journals and records of early explorers and surveyors, Bruce has accumulated astonishing descriptions of a pre-colonial A...
50m Jul 06, 2016
50m
Prof Irene Watson a Tanganekald and Meintangk woman with Amy McQuire
Irene Watson an Tanganekald and Meintangk woman from the Coorong region of the south east of South Australia, and one of the first Aboriginal people to graduate with a law degree. She has a long history in examining the legacy of colonialism, and the enduring doctrine of terra nullius in this country. She joined Amy McQuire to discuss many issues but in this excerpt why we have to start revital...
7m Jul 02, 2016
7m
Descendant of first contact says Australia was invaded 'by gunfire'
Rodney Kelly is the sixth generation descendant of the Gweagal aboriginal warrior, Cooman, who was shot by Captain Cook's landing party at Botany Bay in April 1770. Kelly says Australia was invaded 'by gunfire'. He says the shield belonging to Cooman still has white ochre on it from that day, and a musket hole from when his ancestor was fired upon. The shield has been preserved in the British...
9m Jun 25, 2016
9m
Bilby protection festival a success say Aboriginal Rangers
Rangers hosting this week's bilby festival in Australia's most remote community are pleased with the amount of knowledge that's been shared on protecting the native animal. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek. 00:00 00:00 AUDIO: Kiwirrkurra ranger Patrick Green says this week's bilby festival has been a success and he's pleased with the amount of knowledge ...
4m Jun 24, 2016
4m
Aboriginal Marathon runner will take 21 prisoners on a fun run - outside prison
A new program at West Kimberley Regional Prison near Derby is using this philosophy to try to help the prisoners. Indigenous marathon runner, Adrian Dodson-Shaw talks to ABC Kimberley radio's Fiona Poole about how he will lead a 5km fun run with 21 prisoners. ABC WA
5m Jun 24, 2016
5m
A memory code, a way of thinking
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world. She has found that this an...
24m Jun 23, 2016
24m
Aboriginal Rangers and scientists meet to protect the endagered Bilby
Bilbies are desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. At the time of European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesser bilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered.
6m Jun 22, 2016
6m
What is prison for? - The purpose of Prisons
John Cleary ABC RN with Prof Eileen Baldry, Dr Mindy Sotiri, Fr Joe Caddy and Ben QuiltyRecorded on Sunday, May 22, 2016
51m Jun 20, 2016
51m
The Two State dispute on WA people in Darwin's 'Long Grass'
A dispute has broken out between the West Australian and Northern Territory Governments over the movement of Aboriginal people across northern Australia. The Territory's Chief Minister, Adam Giles, has written to WA calling on it to take back homeless Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Darwin. Across the border, his comments have not been welcomed. ABC Radio 'PM' Repoprt
5m Jun 19, 2016
5m
Anawain New England Elder questions comments by Barnaby Joyce
Steve Widders, an Anawain Elder has questioned comments by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce that Aboriginal people and their issues have always been a part of his life.Speaking on CAAMA Radio during a quick visit to Central Australia the Deputy Prime Minister told listeners he is not oblivious to Aboriginal issues.Steve Widders has a different opinion ... adding that Aboriginal issues appear...
5m Jun 10, 2016
5m
Fitzroy Crossings Victor Hunter responds to the 4 Corners report into waste in communities
Victor Hunter is the Director of the Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Housing and he works in the Fitzroy Valley. Victor Hunter spoke with Vanessa Mills after the 4 Corners report into the millions being wasted in remote communities. He says that there needs to be proper checks into those who work with Aboriginal people. From ABC 4 Corners (Ripped Off)
4m Jun 08, 2016
4m
John Pilger: Silencing of America as it prepares for war
Today on Flashpoints: Internationally renown documentary Filmmaker,John Pilger, on the silencing of America as it prepares for war. AndBernie Sanders supporters waiting to hear him speak out side the AllanBaptist Church in East Oakland, talk about why they much prefer him to Trump and Clinton From Flashpoint News Magazine
58m Jun 07, 2016
58m
Aboriginal Songlines multimedia art : Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point
An excerpt from ABC RN 'Books and Arts' It's called Songlines, and it’s part of Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. Songlines draws on Indigenous creation stories from across Australia and it features the work of six Indigenous artists. Michael speaks to one of those artists, Djon Mundine OAM.
10m May 26, 2016
10m
Aboriginal peoples challenges: Ghillar, Michael Anderson
Aboriginal people say they they are shocked and alarmed that Australia is seeking to become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018. In a detailed letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations Michael Anderson Convenor of the Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples told .. Ban Ki Moon ... they object in the strongest terms to Australia being considered fo...
11m May 24, 2016
11m
Exploding hunter-gatherer myth will go to movies
At the heart of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu is a bold assertion which explodes a foundational myth of white Australia: that Aboriginal people were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Dark Emu was recently named Book of the Year and joint winner of the biennial Indigenous Writing Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Bruce Pascoe convincingly argues the hunter-gatherer myth was a convenient lie that e...
19m May 21, 2016
19m
The critical Housing issues at Parnpajnya
The critical Housing issues for the forgotten Martu people at their Parnpajnya community in Western Australia. ABC Radio WA report
8m May 11, 2016
8m
Scullion gets one thing right
National Congress does not speak for First Nations people and their members mainly consist of people spruiked at Aboriginal Events by paid staff during their times of government funding. They have spent years promoting 'Recognition' and now they are themselves asking the government questions about the processes but haven't came out and clearly stated where they stand,.CAAMA Radio Interview with...
1m May 10, 2016
1m
Too many children removed: Mother of the Year:
Bidjara woman Keelen Mailman was nominated for the award by her niece and foster daughter. Keelan Mailman says too many Aboriginal children are in out of home care, with Indigenous kids nearly 10 times more likely to be removed from their parents than non-Indigenous children.
5m May 06, 2016
5m
Minister for Employment Welfare dependancy farce
Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne
14m May 05, 2016
14m
Bruce Pascoe on sophistaced Aboriginal agriculture
Bruce Pascoe's work presents a radically different picture of Australia's original inhabitants, and how they maintained their culture over millennia. From the journals and records of early explorers and surveyors, Bruce has accumulated astonishing descriptions of a pre-colonial Aboriginal life. Mitchell, Sturt and others describe scenes all around the country of Aboriginal people engineering ...
50m May 05, 2016
50m
Bruce Pascoe at Daylesford, Victoria, 7 April 2016
To hear the complete recording of Bruce Pascoe and David Holmgren refer to the past to augment the future - Daylesford Town Hall, April 7 2016. https://soundcloud.com/hrn-522934863/land-cultures-bruce-pascoe-david-holmgren
23m May 03, 2016
23m
Aboriginal stock pastoral strike 1946
Brett Derchow spoke with ABCs Tangiora Hinaki about the conditions of his people working in the pastoral industry during the 1940s.
8m Apr 26, 2016
8m
World's study: Location doesn't determine disadvantage
The world’s biggest study on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people has found that living in a richer country doesn’t give Indigenous people an advantage. The study of more than 150 million Indigenous people in 23 countries was published in the Lancet today. It’s found that the gap in life expectancy of Indigenous people in Australia is on par with Indigenous people in Cameroon. The re...
4m Apr 21, 2016
4m
Aboriginal people affected by Maralinga nuclear tests take peace sculpture to Japan
Members of an Aboriginal community affected by the nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s are connecting with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan. A group of artists from Yalata in South Australia are flying to Nagasaki today to unveil a sculpture for its peace park - it will be the first Australian sculpture in the memorial. The exchange is also allowing the two groups to exchange stories ...
3m Apr 18, 2016
3m
Electorate of McMillan: Renamed due to his role in First Nations Massacres
From ABC RN's 'The World Today'Transcript: - ELEANOR HALL: To Victoria now, where a Federal Liberal MP is proposing to change the name of his electorate because of its links to the massacres of Australia's Indigenous people. The Eastern Victorian seat of McMillan is named for the notorious explorer, Angus McMillan. There is little resistance to changing the name, but there is debate about wh...
3m Apr 01, 2016
3m
Australian-first degree training Indigenous students to treat Indigenous mental health
A new university degree that will allow Indigenous students to train to become Indigenous mental health practitioners has been widely praised by health and suicide prevention experts. It's hoped the course from Curtin University in Western Australia will be able to specifically address the growing rate of suicide within Indigenous communities. ABC RN 'The World Today' 4min 12sec
4m Mar 23, 2016
4m
Kutcha Edwards with his 5 most creative inspirations
7m Mar 16, 2016
7m
First Nations people as Harvest Workers run through
Warringari Aboriginal Corporation CEO Desmond Hill said indigenous people were willing to work on farms but jobs had to be ongoing and well paid. "People are interested and are willing to look at working on farms … but it has to be 12 months of the year, not just seasonal," he said." The seasonality of harvest work was also flagged by Miriuwung Gajerrong Corporation CEO Neil Fong. "If they l...
4m Mar 13, 2016
4m
Dying to Please You: Indigenous Suicide in Contemporary Canada
Ronald D Chrisjohn BSc (Central Michigan), MA, PhD (Western Ontario) Since at least 1977 there has been unquestionable proof that, depending on age, region, and other demographic factors, indigenous peoples in Canada have suicide rates anywhere between three and ten times the rates for non-indigenous Canadians. As a consequence, there has been since that time at least a moderate interest in ma...
43m Mar 12, 2016
43m
Lionel Rose v Fighting Harada - 27 Feb 1968 Tokyo, Japan.
4m Feb 28, 2016
4m
First Nations academic Bronwyn Carson explores Aboriginal identity politics
Bronwyn Carlson's parents frequently accused each other of being "touched by the tar brush", which underpinned her struggle with her Aboriginal identity as a child. Her experience growing up with the understanding that she and her siblings "weren't white, but not Aboriginal either" inspired her recently published PhD, in which she explores the complexities of being an Aboriginal Australian. "...
2m Feb 27, 2016
2m
Aunty Murial Walker - Full interview
In 1990, Sixteen-year-old Colleen Walker-Craig kissed her mother goodbye before heading off to a friends party. That was the last time Aunty Murial Walker-Craig saw her daughter. For 24 years, Aunty Murial Walker has been waiting for her daughter to come home. Colleen is one of three children from the Bowraville Aboriginal Community who suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again. The other t...
11m Feb 26, 2016
11m
Aboriginal fishing: When culture becomes criminal
'Why should we go and apply for a permit when fisheries know that we've got a right to go out and get a feed,' Wally Stewart says. 'That's what we are saying—we don’t need to go and get a permit. As far as I'm concerned they are still trying to put a regulation on us, and that is what has destroyed our culture, all these regulations. If they pull me up I’m just going to say I’m exempt from the...
41m Feb 25, 2016
41m
Australia has a fundamental responsibility to teach its children the true history of their country!
Glen Yearwood (Storyteller) is a former London based communication expert who is traveling the globe to listen to the voice of the First Nations Peoples. Currently living in Alice Springs, Storyteller says has never seen or sensed the seething that he has experienced since arriving in Australia last year.. and that he believes there is a massive cavity in the relationship between white and bla...
1m Feb 23, 2016
1m
Two Black Holes Colliding
These chirps are gravitational waves converted to audible sounds. The faint thump matches the gravitational waves’ frequencies. The louder chirp is a higher frequency better suited to human ears. LIGO
12s Feb 13, 2016
12s
First Nations Women Double imprisonment Rate
Doubling of female imprisonment rate in Australia almost entirely due to Aboriginal women being locked up More herehttp://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2014/s4066806.htm
3m Feb 13, 2016
3m
Cherbourg's Female War Heroes
There has never been any recognition for the role that Aboriginal women played during war times. Many First Nations women joined the army, but those women who were left behind, had to take on traditionally male work. Gunggari woman, Dr Ruth Hegarty, Aboriginal author, is a recipient of the Queensland Great award for her contribution to building Queensland, grew up in the dormitory in Cherbour...
8m Feb 11, 2016
8m
The living archive of Aboriginal languages
In the early 1970s, the Australian Government introduced a bilingual literacy program - known as two-way learning - for schools in the Northern Territory. The program aimed to help Indigenous students learn oral English, while learning the basics of literacy and numeracy through their own languages. The bilingual program continued for several decades, though as national standardised testing w...
12m Feb 05, 2016
12m
Bruce Pascoe on Aboriginal agriculture
Bruce Pascoe's most recent work presents a radically different picture of Australia's original inhabitants, and how they maintained their culture over millennia. From the journals and records of early explorers and surveyors, Bruce has accumulated astonishing descriptions of a pre-colonial Aboriginal life. Mitchell, Sturt and others describe scenes all around the country of Aboriginal people ...
50m Feb 02, 2016
50m
Star Stories of The Dreaming Q&A - Premiere Screening
On the 27 January 2016 the Premiere Screening of 'Star Stories of the Dreaming' was held at the Chauvel Cinema One at Paddington Sydney. The Q&A was with [l-r] Bob Fuller, cultural astronomer; Ghillar Michael Anderson, Euahlayi Lawman and knowledge holder; Prof Ray Norris, CSIRO astrophysicist; & Eleanor Gilbert, filmmaker & producer.
33m Feb 01, 2016
33m