Remote work-for-the-dole scheme 'devastating Indigenous communities'
The Federal Government's remote work-for-the-dole scheme is devastating Indigenous communities, with financial penalties causing insurmountable debt and social division, a report has found. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek. 00:00 00:00 AUDIO: Remote work-for-the-dole scheme failing Indigenous communities: report (PM)The Australian National University res...
4m Dec 02, 2016
4m
The intersection of Aboriginal culture and the science of astronomy
Australian Aboriginal culture is widely recognised as the oldest living culture in the world, but have you ever wondered what it was like for Aboriginal Australians to live by the stars? The latest study in Aboriginal astronomy has found a site that could be older than Stonehenge, and even pre-date the Great Pyramids of Giza. We talk to Dr Duane Hamacher from Monash University, and Jesse Flea...
10m Nov 16, 2016
10m
Prisons are obsolete: Challenging the prison industrial complex
We all know about incarceration. But have you heard of decarceration? Why do we invest so much in metal cages and punitive approaches? Are there alternatives that might create strong and safe communities, without criminalisation, surveillance and overpolicing? We hear from global critics of the prison industrial complex at the 8th international conference of the prisoners advocacy group Sist...
11m Nov 13, 2016
11m
Bennelong and Yemmerrawanyea Rendition
Bennelong and Yemmerrawanyea Rendition AUDIO: Bennelong and Yemmerawanne's song, performed in London in 1792, as notated and published by musician Edward Jones in 1811. This version is performed by Clarence Slockee and Matthew Doyle at the State Library of NSW, August 2010. More info here: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/bennelong-and-yemmerrawanyea-singing-england#
2m Nov 11, 2016
2m
Each generation of Aboriginal people worse than the last: mayor of Kalgoorlie
The Mayor of Kalgoorlie says anti-social problems in Kalgoorlie are the result of bad parenting and that each generation of Aboriginal people is worse than the last. 28th October ABC RN Breakfasthttps://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pglxVL8mbV?play=true
5m Oct 29, 2016
5m
The Pinjarra Massacre 28 October 1834
The story of colonial Australia is as much a story of dispossession as it is of settlement, and dispossession often went hand in hand with terrible brutality. As a result, a great many regions of Australia have massacres of Indigenous peoples woven into their story—some are widely acknowledged, some will never be fully known, and others are sources of historical argument. And so today we’re lo...
25m Oct 28, 2016
25m
Alcoholic beverages before colonisation
Contrary to all teachings, Australia's first alcohol wasn't brought here by boat, it came from Aboriginal people fermenting their own special drink from tree sap. While fermented food is all rage at the moment, it's cultural heritage goes back thousands of years. Contrary to all teachings, Australia's first alcohol wasn't brought here by boat, it came from Aboriginal people fermenting their o...
17m Oct 25, 2016
17m
The numbers continued to grow ... it wasn't about the best interests of the children !
A former employee of the Northern Territory Department of Children and Families says that senior people within the department often fail to act in the best interest of Aboriginal children caught up in the system. Kimberley Hunter a Nygina man from the Kimberley region of Western Australia told the Royal Commission's Alice Springs community consultation into the Protection and Detention of Chil...
11m Oct 21, 2016
11m
Wadjemup (Rottnest Island): Black prison
Ask any West Australian whitefella how they feel about Rottnest Island and the responses are reverential. A holiday at Rotto is a West Australian rite of passage. But for Western Australia’s Indigenous people, the memories and the stories are very different. Beneath its glittering surface is a history of horror and suffering.
28m Oct 20, 2016
28m
Detention centres are not places of rehabilitation, former juvenile detainees tell NT Royal Commission
A former juvenile detainee says she feels relieved after speaking to the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory. Lexi, 17, was among a small group of former juvenile inmates who attended a royal commission closed youth forum in Alice Springs this week. "It feels like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, because telling this mob here so they can ...
3m Oct 19, 2016
3m
Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines
One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every year, say experts who estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous languages will be left by the year 2050. Experts say Australia is in the midst of a national crisis as with each year elders die and take with them the knowledge of Indigenous languages. To try to capture these languages before it becomes too late, the Australian Insti...
4m Oct 19, 2016
4m
James Brennan: Aboriginal stockman turned resistance fighter
He was an Aboriginal stockman, turned world war two guerrilla fighter.It’s a story that reads like the plot of an action film, but it’s actually the remarkably true tale of a local from the WA Goldfields. James Brennan was an Aboriginal stockman from Laverton whose life was shaped by battles at home and abroad. He was born into battle between settlers and Aboriginal people in the northern Gol...
10m Oct 18, 2016
10m
NT Royal Commissioners goes bush but how many locals know about it?
he Royal Commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory is heading out bush for a series of meetings in remote Indigenous communities. Today the commissioners are flying north from Darwin to the Tiwi Islands where Tiwi youth workers are already working on solutions for diverting young people away from the criminal justice system. But as Sara Everingham repo...
3m Oct 17, 2016
3m
Remains of Indigenous people handed back to Aboriginal leaders in London
The remains of 13 Indigenous people were handed back to Aboriginal leaders at a ceremony at Australia House in London overnight. Cambridge University and the University of Birmingham were among the institutions that returned remains as part of a repatriation process. However, some institutions like the British Museum continue to defy the wishes of indigenous people by refusing to return ances...
3m Oct 15, 2016
3m
First Non Indigenous Overland Walk - Historian Nick Brodie
This virtually unknown story is of fifteen men in 1797 who became the first overlanders on this continent to walk 700 miles through 'country', from Ninety Mile Beach in Victoria to Sydney Cove. The account of William Clark's trek is evidence of the humane and generous treatment of these forlorn interlopers by First Nations Peoples, who ensured the party's survival. ABC Radio National, LNL with...
31m Oct 13, 2016
31m
The Indigenous memory code
Have you ever wondered how ancient indigenous cultures maintain so much information about the thousands of species of plants and animals—without writing it down? Traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines are key to a powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world. It's intricately tied to the landscape and it can be applied in our everyday lives. AUDIO TRANSCRIPThttp://...
29m Oct 13, 2016
29m
Ancient Aboriginal people were world's first astronomers
From the BBC (edited) Were Australia's prehistoric Aboriginal people the world's first true astronomers, predating European and ancient Greek and Indian astronomers by thousands of years? The stunning discovery of what is being called an "Aboriginal Stonehenge", the first of its kind to be found in Australia, could change that continent's history and with it our whole understanding of how and...
15m Oct 12, 2016
15m
Audio: More info on Archibald Menson's Australia West Show
Full audio here: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/02/bay201502191005.mp3 Article: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/02/bay201502191005.mp3
4m Oct 10, 2016
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Tribute to 'massacred' Woolwonga tribe near Katherine
Northern Territory - A ceremony has been held to mark 130 years since almost the entire Woolwonga tribe was believed to have been murdered, with official recognition now paid to its descendants. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion unveiled a plaque to commemorate the tribe from Alligator River, near Katherine. A girl known as 'Jennie' was found to be the only known survivor aft...
1m Oct 09, 2016
1m
John Howard introduced 'Constitution Recognition' to slash Aboriginal Sovereighty
Former PM John Howard announced the idea of Recognition in 2007 because he was worried about the fact that Aboriginal people still maintained their pre-existing and continuing sovereignty over First Nations' territories, lands waters and natural resources.  This was originally bought to his attention some years earlier when PM Robert Menzies, a hero of Howard's, tabled the facts in parliament ...
6m Oct 04, 2016
6m
Aboriginal Activist Wayne Wharton in Neo-Liberal Radio Interview
Sporting star Mundine has come under fire for suggesting players in the AFL and NRL grand finals take a stand and not sing the anthem. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged Australians on 3AW to "come together" over the weekend. Wayne Wharton said he found both the national anthem and flag offensive. "Australia is still a crime scene," he declared. "And many aboriginal people who are locked...
10m Sep 30, 2016
10m
Video game offers new life to ancient Indigenous language
The world's first Aboriginal Australian language video game has put smiles on the faces of Indigenous children who never thought they'd see their culture reflected in a game. Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis and Dr Inge Kral, research fellows with The Australian National University (ANU) School of Literature Languages & Linguistics have worked with the ANU School of Art, and the Research School of Compu...
13m Sep 28, 2016
13m
'Black Mist, Burnt Country' - 60 Years since Maralinga Nuclear tests
A national touring exhibition has opened in Sydney to mark the 60th anniversary of the first atomic test at Maralinga. In total, seven nuclear bomb blasts were detonated between 1956 and 1967 in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia followed by more than 600 'minor tests' Source ABC RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly
7m Sep 27, 2016
7m
Bunuba search for Jandamarra's head in museum archives
As dawn light crept across the Kimberley on April 1, 1897, the hot morning would become seared in Kimberley history.It's the day that Jandamarra was shot dead.The young Bunuba man had led a resistance campaign against white settlement of the West Kimberley for several years; sheep and cattle grazing had expanded, pushing out local Aboriginal people and turning traditional life into turmoil.Ther...
13m Sep 26, 2016
13m
'Not a Riot in Kalgoorlie - Anger is the voice of the people': Local First Nations broadcaster
Debbie Carmody, an Anangu woman is First Nation radio broadcaster in the Goldfields region explains that 'anger is the voice of the people'. She talks about the deplorable history of racism and injustices in Kalgoorlie.. In examples of Kalgoorlie racism, Debbie said: 'Kalgoorlie had the highest NO vote in the 1967 referendum' and 'In the 2000 Olympics the people booed Kathy Freeman when she cr...
14m Sep 23, 2016
14m
Dr JIM Green - Nuclear Waste Dump Updates
Dr Jim Green an expert on the Nuclear industry in 'Australia', provides us with an update on the Nuclear Waste dump proposals and other related matters. The first plan is for a 'NATIONAL' Nuclear Waste dump on sacred country in the Flinders Ranges which is being driven by the Federal government. There is a separate proposal which is led by the South Australia government on the same lands that...
15m Sep 17, 2016
15m
"I want things to start improving for our mob": Carnarvon mans walk for justice
Clinton Pryor is concerned for his people and aboriginal communities. He wants the Federal Government to listen to their cry for help and he's doing that by walking to Canberra from WA. "Why the heck are our people living in poverty out in communities and they get away with mining the land and making billions of dollars", he said. Mr Pryor is stopping into aboriginal communities along the way...
8m Sep 13, 2016
8m
Aboriginal ear health is at emergency levels in NT and beyond
This audio report from ABC PM with Mark Culvin Ear, nose and throat specialists have declared war on one of the most preventable and treatable conditions undermining the wellbeing and learning of Aboriginal children - serious ear disease. Brisbane-based ENT surgeon Chris Perry, president of the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, said the chronic problem was not factor...
4m Sep 13, 2016
4m
First case of mesothelioma in former student at asbestos mining town
ABC PM Radio report
7m Sep 08, 2016
7m
Report shows prisoner David Dungay died after being held face-down and sedated
They murdered my son and must be accountable for it ABC PM Report
6m Sep 08, 2016
6m
New Labor Government ready for Treaty: CAAMA Radio
With Paul Wiles CAAMA Radio Michael Gunner, the Alice Springs born and bred Territorian who returned Labor to Government after only one term in Opposition says he is prepared to negotiate with local Aboriginal people about a Treaty and that it will be a critical agenda item during his first term of government. Mr Gunner who has already visited a Top End Aboriginal community since being sworn ...
9m Sep 08, 2016
9m
WA's stolen wages shame
In Western Australia the government is facing a potential class action over its controversial stolen wages reparations scheme, which paid Aboriginal people a maximum of $2,000 each after decades of wages withheld by government, child labour, and in some cases slavery. Now a Background Briefing investigation has uncovered secret financial modelling, commissioned by government, on just how much ...
41m Sep 06, 2016
41m
25 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Jon Faine ABC 747 'The conversation hour (Excerpt) with Karly Warner, Ruth Barson, Benson Saulo and Julian Cleary Karly Warner is the Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, and Chair of the Administrative Law & Human Rights Executive Committee at the Law Institute of Victoria. She also sits on the Aboriginal Advisory Council at Lander and Rogers...
34m Sep 05, 2016
34m
Archaeologist date First Nations stone houses in Wandjina country at 9000 years
Researchers from the University of Western Australia have discovered what they believe to be the earliest "houses" in Australia dating back to almost 9000 years. Prof. Jo McDonald is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at UWA and the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies. Her interests include rock art and information exchange, engendered rock art studies, arid zone ro...
7m Sep 05, 2016
7m
Chained Noongar mans family distressed and want answers
On Friday Nathan Khan, aged 30, appeared at the Midland District Court and collapsed during his hearing before being escorted out of the court room by guards Despite attending the hearing with Mr Khan, his family was not notified of his transport to hospital until hours later and were then left to their own devices to locate which hospital he had been sent to. The family then arrived at the h...
1m Aug 24, 2016
1m
American born astrophysicist: ' Aboriginal knowledge is a different way of thinking'
Dr Duane Hamacher, Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre in Melbourne says Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander astronomical and geological knowledge and traditions needs no validation from western science..
11m Aug 24, 2016
11m
Astrophysicist says Aboriginal cultural knowledge needs no validation from western science
CAAMA Radio An American born astrophysicist working in Australia has used National Science Week to share the significance of Aboriginal cultural knowledge which he says other scientists often fail to understand.... because it is a totally different way of thinking. Dr Duane Hamacher...Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre in Melbourne says Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande...
17s Aug 24, 2016
17s
NT Election Candidate Banned From Selling In First Nations Communities
1m Aug 23, 2016
1m
Q&A Star Stories - National Film & Sound Archive
36m Aug 22, 2016
36m
Star Stories Q&A Museum Contemporary Art
18m Aug 22, 2016
18m
Nuclear Waste Update + by expert Dr Jim Green
Dr Jim Green is an expert on all matters nuclear and a national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth. Here he provides us with an update on all things nuclear on this continent and worldwide. An interview on 3CR Radioactive Program 20 August 2016
14m Aug 20, 2016
14m
Call to include First Nations Healing practices in Public Health Services
A panel of Indigenous health experts and tradition healers gathered at the University of Sydney for a discussion about the integration of Ngangkari (traditional Aboriginal healers) into traditional western practices. This forum aims to close the health gap for Indigenous Australians by raising awareness of the need for culturally appropriate medical treatments.
5m Aug 19, 2016
5m
Youth Affairs Director speaks out against Cleveland Detention Centre
Extract of Radio National interview with Siyavash Doostkhah, Director of Youth Affairs Network Queensland 19 August 2016
6m Aug 19, 2016
6m
'Beyond Blue': Dump Kennett over Don Dale comments
Jeff Kennett Redneck ex Victorian Liberal Premier and chairman of 'BeyondBlue' said the ABC Four Corners report highlighting the inhumane treatment of youth at the Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre was biased and destroyed the reputation of Adam Giles. Robert Eggington, head of Nyoongah trauma support service Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, says Jeff Kennett’s position at BeyondBlue is now...
1m Aug 17, 2016
1m
Adam Giles on Incarceration & Detention criticism - May 2016
The Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles has defended his Governments efforts to reduce the rate of Aboriginal incarceration which last year stood at 86% of those in Territory prison and 96% of those in juvenile detention . Speaking on CAAMA Radio Mr Giles rejected criticism from the left and says his Governments ongoing efforts to reduce rates of recidivism are being applauded across ...
15s Aug 08, 2016
15s
Tackling Indigenous incarceration rates: Mervyn Eades
The journey from childhood disadvantage, to juvenile detention, to adult prison, is the life story for so many. And it was Noongar man Mervyn Eades' story too, until his 30s. Then Eades set about devising a training program to help prisoners find work upon their release, and to help stop Aboriginal youth from entering the prison system. The success of his Perth-based program, called Ngalla M...
7m Aug 04, 2016
7m
Adam Giles down in Poll: Here's the in's and outs of the ducks arse 'ole
Territorians are scheduled to go to the polls on August 27 and a MediaReach poll commissioned by the NT News suggests a majority of them have lost confidence in the Giles Government's ability to manage youth detentionA week after the Prime Minister announced a Royal Commission into the Northern Territory juvenile detention system, the poll suggests the Territory's Chief Minister Adam Giles coul...
5m Aug 04, 2016
5m
Scullion & NSW arguing over paying for Custody Notification Service
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has blasted the NSW government over its refusal to fund the Custody Notification Service. In December the Commonwealth committed $1.8 million dollars to fund the hotline for another three years, but Senator Scullion argues the state government should be fronting the cost. The CNS is delivered through the Aboriginal Legal Service and provi...
1m Aug 03, 2016
1m
Mansell: Mick Gooda Too Close To Government
A First Nation’s lawyer has raised questions about the ethics of the appointment of social justice commissioner Mick Gooda to the role of royal co-commissioner. Palawa man Michael Mansell said past appointments of Mr Gooda to sit on government appointed committees such as the expert panel on constitutional recognition and the Referendum Council indicates a relationship between the government a...
1m Aug 02, 2016
1m
Professor: The massive number of Aboriginal people in detention without conviction
Queensland law professor Kerry Carrington says she applauds the Prime Minister for appointing an Aboriginal commissioner but that the national statistics on juvenile justice suggest a broader inquiry is needed. Professor Carrington has been looking at youth justice for many years. She told Eleanor Hall she is particularly concerned about the massive numbers of young people who are in detention ...
8m Aug 02, 2016
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