Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities
Joining CAAMA radio is Mitch Torres from the Kimberley, Western Australia Remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia’s Kimberley region have announced a global call to action to stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities which are causing people to leave their homelands due to state and federal governments withdrawal of support of basic essential services. People all over Austr...
11m Mar 16, 2015
11m
Nyoongar Refugee Camp holds its ground !
Campers at the Nyoongar Tent Embassy on Perth’s Heirisson Island has been given until midday today (Thursday) to pack up and leave.Last week the Embassy declared the site a refuge for homeless people being displaced from their communities… but W.A. Today reports the City of Perth has arranged for welfare support agencies to visit the camp and offer support to homeless individuals.The paper repo...
3m Mar 12, 2015
3m
First Nations were not militarily weak during invasion
In his new book, The Story of Australia's People, Geoffrey Blainey writes that one of the reasons aboriginal tribes didn’t effectively resist European settlement was that they were militarily weak. Indigenous tribes often fought with each other rather than launch coordinated attacks against settlers. An alternative view comes from expert in indigenous history, Dr Ray Kerkhove, who has done new ...
20m Mar 12, 2015
20m
Jack Charles goes back to Prison in his new play
Castlemaine State Festival: John Romeril and Jack CharlesRadio National - Arts Today 12 March 2015 Going Through is a new production by playwright John Romeril, starring veteran actor; indigenous elder and activist, Uncle Jack Charles. Based on a true story from Jack Charles' time as an inmate at 'Old Castlemaine Gaol,' it premieres at the Castlemaine State Festival on the grounds of the goal...
13m Mar 12, 2015
13m
People to be displaced by homelands closures labelled 'refugees in own land'
National Indigenous Radio 98.9fm - Warren Barnsley The Noongar Tent Embassy in Perth say they want to bring International attention to the Western Australian Government's plans to defund remote communities. The Embassy on Matagarup, or Heirisson Island, has set up a 'refugee camp' to take in displaced Indigenous peoples if communities are closed and people forced off their land. Noongar advo...
1m Mar 07, 2015
1m
Renewal of justice system
ABC Radio - Radio National - Late Night Live While our current criminal justice system is determined to treat everyone 'equally', it does not take into account often enough the disadvantages that may have led the offender to commit the crime in the first place. Russell Marks argues that it is important to ask some fundamental questions about punishment if the reduction of crime and a safer com...
18m Mar 04, 2015
18m
Keeping First Nations people out of prison
ABC Radio National Law Report Addiction, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, loss of culture, a sense of hopelessness, mental health issues. How can we keep indigenous people with these sorts of complex needs out of prison? In our third part of a series the Law Report looks at programs that help keep people out of the criminal justice treadmill in the Kimberleys in Western Australia. Transcrip...
28m Mar 03, 2015
28m
Noongar Embassy - Gary Jagamara message
Gerry Georgatos National Indigenous Radio 3 March 2015 The Nyungah Tent Embassy on Perth's Heirisson Island has been re-established. More than 70 Nyungahs gathered to rebuild the camp site which was demolished by police two years ago. A small delegation from the Embassy has informed police they've reclaimed the Embassy's grounds and also stated they'll use the site as a refuge for the homele...
1m Mar 02, 2015
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“They will not stop until we succumb to a 'White' lifestyle”
– Ray Jackson (CAAMA) 26 September, 2014Social Services and the NSW Police force have been criticised after footage was supplied to Australia’s National Indigenous TV (NITV) showing officers dressed in riot gear, raiding a home to remove multiple children from one family. The President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, Ray Jackson, joins CAAMA Radio broadcaster Mikaela Simpson on th...
16m Feb 27, 2015
16m
Meston's Wild Australia Show
ABC Radio National 'Arts Today' Michael Aird Guests: Photographic historian. Curator, Wild Australia: Meston's Wild Australia Show, University of Queensland Anthropology MuseumMandana Mapar and Photo media artist and curator, Wild Australia: Meston's Wild Australia Show, University of Queensland's Anthropology Museum In the 1890s a ‘troupe’ of Aboriginal people travelled Australia to perform a...
19m Feb 21, 2015
19m
American Freedom Riders inspired Australians
ABC RN Phillip Adams 'Late Night Live' Thursday 19 February 2015 In 1961, young married couple Robert and Helen Singleton, joined the Freedom rides to protest against racial segregation in America's south. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on public buses and interstate transport, including at transit stops, was unconstitutional but southern states had ignored this ruling. As s...
30m Feb 21, 2015
30m
Islanders shocked as Australia moves to ban kava
Pacific Islanders in Australia are angry over a federal government move to ban kava. Stefan Armbruster SBS World News 18 FEB 2015 (Transcript from World News Radio) Claims organised gangs of Pacific Islanders are smuggling kava into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities will see the federal government ban the traditional drink in Australia. Existing import limits will be abolished, a mo...
7m Feb 20, 2015
7m
Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava ban
Radio Australia - 20 February 2015 Claims that organised gangs of Pacific islanders are smuggling kava into Aboriginal communities in Australia's Northern Territory could see the traditional Pacific island drink banned. Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava ban (Credit: ABC) Federal Indigenous Affairs minister and Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion says Australi...
4m Feb 20, 2015
4m
Please Bring My Son Home
Aboriginal woman, Beverley Moore Whyman from Mildura is pleading to the Australian government for her son to be returned home from a US Prison. Beverley's son Russell Moore was taken from her at birth, and she has been fighting for her son to be returned home ever since. Russell was adopted by a missionary couple and renamed James Hudson Savage. He was then taken to America by his adoptive par...
7m Feb 20, 2015
7m
Robbie Thorpe - Invasion Day Melbourne 2015
Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe talks about the Invasion Day rally and his thoughts on Invasion Day and his pride in the younger generation stepping up to the challenge of fighting for the rights of first nations people. (Source: SBS Living Black)
6m Feb 20, 2015
6m
Moree remembers Freedom Ride race riot fifty years on
Lindy Kerin reports for ABC/AM 20 February 2015 - Image: Zona Moore was 14 when the Freedom Riders came to Moree - (Pic:Lindy Kerin)------TRANSCRIPT------ MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: An ugly chapter in Australia's race relations will be remembered today in the regional New South Wales town of Moree. Fifty years ago a group of university students led by the late Charles Perkins arrived in Moree and e...
4m Feb 20, 2015
4m
Remote WA Aboriginal communities under threat from funding cuts
Caitlyn Gribbin ABC AM 18 February 2015 MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: There are fears in some of the most remote parts of the country that a government plan to shut Aboriginal communities is already driving people out of them. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities will be closed in the next three years because of a funding shortfall. No decisi...
3m Feb 19, 2015
3m
Tim Wilkey talks to CAAMA
The First Nations Freedom Summit in Canberra has seen Aboriginal Leaders from across the country have come together to share the First Peoples message with parliament. Timothy Wilkey a Ngarrindjeri from South Australia attended the summit representing Aboriginal youth and he talks to Damien Williams on CAAMA radio about his hope to get more young people to take up the fight.
3m Feb 10, 2015
3m
Aboriginal service during wartime
John Maynard provides an overview of his research project that documents and recognises Aboriginal involvement and service from the Boer war through to Afghanistan. He also explains how the seeds of modern indigenous political activism can be traced back to the First World War. Highlights of Serving our Country presented during History week 2014 at the State Library of NSW ABC RN 'Big Ideas'W...
17m Feb 07, 2015
17m
Maralinga - Australia's nuclear waste cover-up
Alan Parkinson is a mechanical and nuclear engineer who lives in Canberra. He has just written a book about the clean up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South Australia. In April 2000 a $108 million clean up of the site was declared a success. However, leaked documents and some experts do not agree and suggest that the legacy of that failed clean up will affect the Australi...
15m Feb 02, 2015
15m
Audio: First Nations Astronomy
An interview with Duane Hamacher Australian Society of Indigenous Astronomy Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences and there is evidence that the First Nations people in Australia have been looking to the night sky to learn the 'culture of the stars' for at least 60,000 years. The earliest European records of Indigenous astronomy was in an 1857 essay called 'The Astronomy and Mythology of the...
15m Feb 02, 2015
15m
'Yulu's coal' and the deep implications for the digging of 'Muda' from the ground.
The stunning Northern Flinders Ranges Country belongs to the Adnyamathanha people. 'Adnya' means rock and 'mathana' means people - the Adnyamathana people are ‘the people of the rocks’. Adnyamathanha songs, stories and Law are all part of the Yuramuda. This program is about the journey of one of the major Adnyamathanha Creation Ancestors, Yulu the Kingfisher Man. Yulu’s Coal, explores the trav...
53m Jan 31, 2015
53m
Freedom Movement will return to Canberra next month
Members of the Freedom Movement have announced they'll return to Canberra when Federal parliament resumes next month. Yesterday, hundreds of the movement's supporters marched from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy past police to stage a sit-in at Parliament House. Freedom Movement delegate Michael Anderson (pictured) says the Aboriginal rights struggle has a new lease of life. Mr Anderson says the...
1m Jan 28, 2015
1m
NT Government under pressure to address facilities for teenage prisoners in Darwin
ABC PM - SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The Northern Territory Government is being pressured to address serious concerns about the treatment of teenage prisoners in Darwin. Defence lawyers, youth workers and Amnesty International are angry that underage prisoners have been moved into an old, adult prison. They say the facility is dilapidated and under resourced. Bridget Brennan reports. BRIDGET BRENNAN: ...
4m Jan 10, 2015
4m
Untold Story: Unrecognised Indigenous soldiers
The First Nations Soldiers were equals on the battlefield, but when they returned, they were not given the recognition or entitlements that they deserved. Once forgotten, the Aboriginal and Islander people who went off to fight for Australia in the First World War have been getting increasing recognition a hundred years later. But many of the stories of soldiers who had to hide their true iden...
25m Jan 02, 2015
25m
Changes to teaching First Nations history - SBS
Transcript from World News Australia Radio - SBS (January 2014) There were concerns a review of the national curriculum could re-ignite the so-called history wars about Australia's past. One particular area of contention is how Australian children should be taught about the early interaction - and often conflict - between Indigenous people and European settlers. Christopher Pyne, the eurocen...
5m Jan 01, 2015
5m
Bennelong Sings
Audio source: ABC Radio National 'Hindsight' 2013 marked two hundred years since the death of Bennelong - that well known Wanggal leader and 'ambassador' to the Sydney colony. Bennelong has long been cast as a tragic figure, a traitor to his people, a damaged character from countless Australian histories, novels and narratives. But as more information about him and his contemporaries comes to...
24m Dec 29, 2014
24m
Troublesome Natives rotting in the penal colonies
Indigenous convicts: Khoisan, Maori and Aboriginal exiles - ABC Radio National - Hindsight The convicts left to rot in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) didn't all hail from Britain. There were Australian Aboriginal freedom fighters, South African and even Moari convicts. If you hang the Freedom Fighters (Trouble-makers) you are left with a body (evidence), but if you transport them to a penal col...
54m Dec 29, 2014
54m
Remote closures will lead to trauma: Expert
A leading Western Australian suicide prevention and healing advocate has condemned the state Government's decision to push ahead with the forced closure of up to 150 homeland communities. Robert Eggington (pictured) from the Perth-based Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation is calling on Premier Colin Barnett to reverse his decision. Mr Eggington says any closures will lead to trauma, anger, dysf...
1m Dec 17, 2014
1m
Dennis Eggington: Ethnic cleansing in WA
Proposed WA remote community closures labelled "ethnic cleansing" - National Indigenous Radio Service The CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ALSWA) has described the state Government's decision to close about 150 remote communities as "ethnic cleansing". The WA Government flagged the closure of homeland communities after the Commonwealth shifted responsibility for remot...
1m Dec 12, 2014
1m
World Indigenous domestic violence conference in Cairns
MARK COLVIN: For the first time in Australia, Indigenous women from around the world are meeting this week, to talk about domestic violence in their communities. The shocking rates of domestic violence in Aboriginal families, is mirrored in communities in New Zealand and North America. A Global Indigenous Domestic Violence conference in Cairns has heard that Indigenous victims won't speak up,...
3m Dec 09, 2014
3m
Sisters on the Inside, Babies on the Outside - The Wire
Breastfeeding is important for the development of a child. But what happens when the mother is in prison. Recently an Aboriginal boy was born to a mother who was a prisoner in Queensland. Ideally the mother could have her child with her, but purpose-built cells are few.The pair were separated and the mother was not given a breast pump so that she could provide milk to the child from prison. Sup...
4m Dec 03, 2014
4m
Truganini - In her Freedom Fighting days
One of the most familiar names in the story of Australian colonisation is that of the Tasmanian Aboriginal woman 'Truganini'. But for most people the story begins and ends with a single, very famous photo, along with a label describing her simply as the last of the full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines. Not only was that label deeply misleading, we now know that Truganini's life is one of the most s...
55m Dec 01, 2014
55m
Victoria's forgotten war - The Freedom Fighters'
Five of the last Tasmanian Aboriginal people were shipped to the Victorian mainland to help the 'Aboriginal Protector' civilise the blacks - instead they gave the settlers such a fright, burning their houses and their money etc, that many of the settlers families left their 'stolen properties' and moved closer to Melbourne for protection. After a major hunting spree with mobs of police and sett...
44m Dec 01, 2014
44m
Abbott urged to try harder on engaging with Indigenous Australians
The Social Justice commissioner Mick Gooda has tabled his 2014 report calling on the Prime Minister and his Government to try harder to engage with Indigenous communities. He's also joined with the Law Council of Australia in labelling the rates of Indigenous people in jail as a national crisis. Both have called on the Government to introduce specific justice targets in efforts to close the gap...
5m Nov 28, 2014
5m
Phillip Adams interview on the Freedom Summit
Phillip Adams from ABC 'Late Night Live' interviewed Tauto Sansbury, Michael Mansell & Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the 2014 Freedom Summit in Alice Springs - Image by Gerry Georgatos
40m Nov 27, 2014
40m
Campaign to stop jailing mentally ill without conviction grows
ABC PM with Mark Colvin THE TRANSCRIPT MARK COLVIN: A national campaign to stop mentally disabled people being jailed without a conviction is gaining momentum. The Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign estimates more than a hundred people are in that predicament around the country and about half of them are Indigenous Australians. Lawyers, academics and justice and welfare groups met in Me...
4m Nov 22, 2014
4m
WA protesters: Aboriginal Heritage Act changes
Audio report from Anna Vidot ABC PM - Katrin Long and staff reporters A petition with more than 1,600 signatures protesting against planned changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act has been presented to Western Australia's Parliament. They presented the petition to the Opposition's Aboriginal Affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt and Nationals member for the Pilbara Brendon Grylls. Port Hedland Nyamal e...
3m Nov 22, 2014
3m
Elders hope France repatriation deal can be precedent
Indigenous elders have welcomed a new agreement between France and Australia on the repatriation of Indigenous remains. Michael Kenny - World News Radio 20 NOV 2014 (Transcript from SBS World News Radio) Indigenous elders have welcomed a new agreement between France and Australia on the repatriation of Indigenous remains. They say they hope it sets a precedent for similar agreements with ot...
3m Nov 21, 2014
3m
Lex Wotton Interview November 2014
Radio National 'Drive' program on 19 November, 2014 Picture: Lex at G20 - Deaths in Custody March - Speaches
9m Nov 20, 2014
9m
WA chief justice says Indigenous interpreting services must be expanded
There are fears that a West Australian Government decision to scrap funding for an interpreting service could deny justice to some Aboriginal people in the Kimberley. The Kimberley Interpreting Service helps Aboriginal people navigate the technical English of police interviews and the courts. And the state's chief justice says Government should be increasing funding for Indigenous interpreter...
4m Nov 18, 2014
4m
Get them off their homelands and into the mines
The 3 Stooges: Marcia Langton, mining magnate Twiggy Forrest and the Coalition Parliamentary Secretary, Alan Tudge hatch a plan for the employment of First Nations people. A key player in the Abbott Government review into Aboriginal and Islander employment says both incentives (Mining Companies) and disincentives of the welfare system (First Nations people) are in their plans. Alan Tudge, who ...
11m Nov 13, 2014
11m
First Nations health service contests claims of ice use in remote communities
A First Nations health service in South Australia says claims of an ice crisis in remote Indigenous communities are overblown and could harm the fight against drugs. The APY Lands in the far north-west of South Australia, the Nganampa Health Service covers eight remote clinics and the director says if the drug ice was being widely used in the region, the clinics would probably know. 12 Novembe...
3m Nov 12, 2014
3m
Audio: Pastor Geoffrey Stokes on homelessness and Mining
Archives: National Indigenous Radio - "Now people are just going back into the corrugated irons that they came out of in the '50s and '60s. Concerning their policies, we're going backwards." Pastor Stokes from the Kalgoorlie region in Western Australia, is also calling for unity amongst Indigenous people to improve their standing in Australian society. He has lashed out at Australian governme...
10m Oct 30, 2014
10m
Book: Joseph Lycett's Art - Phillip Adams Interview with author
Prof John Maynard's book, 'True Light and Shade' is based on the incredible paintings by convict artist Joseph Lycett (See cover photo above). Lycett captured many intimate landscapes featuring the First Nations peoples lives during the settlement of New South Wales, especially within the vicinity of Newcastle. He brings to life the rich cultural life of the peoples that belonged to the land an...
17m Oct 30, 2014
17m
Keischa Haynes-Jamieson reveals part of her life at the National day of Action, Canberra
Keischa Haynes-Jamieson reveals part of her life at the National day of Action, Justice for Ms Dhu, Canberra - Introduced by Lara Pullin
10m Oct 24, 2014
10m
Calls for sacking of curriculum reviewer ABC/AM Report
There are calls for the man who reviewed the national English curriculum to lose his University of Sydney job over emails he sent to colleagues that are considered racist and misogynistic. The university is investigating whether Professor Barry Spurr's emails are a breach of the school's code of conduct. The Opposition wants the Education Minister Christopher Pyne to explain whether the curricu...
4m Oct 16, 2014
4m
2 of 2 - Ghillar Michael Anderson with Shane Mortimer on Radio 2XX
Sovereignty Union Founder Ghillar Michael Anderson speaks about many things relating to First Nations Sovereignty, past plans, present and the future. Source: Sovereign VoicesBroadcaster Shane Mortimer on 2XX FM Canberra - 10 October 2014
20m Oct 16, 2014
20m
1 of 2 - Ghillar Michael Anderson with Shane Mortimer on Radio 2XX
Sovereignty Union Founder Ghillar Michael Anderson speaks about many things relating to First Nations Sovereignty, past plans, present and the future. Source: Sovereign VoicesBroadcaster Shane Mortimer on 2XX FM Canberra - 10 October 2014
21m Oct 16, 2014
21m
Remembrance day at WA's Wadjemup (Rottnest Island)
First Nations people from across Western Australia will travel to Rottnest Island, or Wadjemup, to remember their ancestors who were brought there in chains. The island's former prison, 19 kilometres from the Perth coastline, incarcerated thousands of people from as far as the Kimberley, Pilbara, Western Desert and across Nyungah lands. It's believed at least 370 and possibly up to 700 men an...
1m Oct 15, 2014
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