First Nations warfare with expert Dr Ray Kerkhove
This is a Phillip Adams interview with an expert on First Nations history, Dr Ray Kerkhove, who has undertaken new research on the warfare between First Nations people and the British advancement in Queensland during the 19th century - he has some interesting findings on Nations rallying together across Eastern states to fight the invaders ... and more. 'Latenight Live' ABC RN Wednesday 11 Mar...
18m Jan 15, 2016
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Great Invasion Day speech by Marjorie Thorpe, a Gunnai woman
An excerpt from Marjorie Thorpe's speech at an Invasion Day RallyMarjorie Thorpe is a descendant of the Gunnai and Maar people of VictoriaThanks to 3CR's 'Earth Matters' program for the audio
12m Jan 11, 2016
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Stolen Generations Five generations of family
Cabbage Tree Island is a large, flat, teardrop of sugar cane land on a reach of the Richmond River on the New South Wales far north coast. It is also home to the Njangbal clan of the Bundjalung people, and it is 'country' for former Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council chairwoman Sandra Bolt. In the 1950s and 60s, Mrs Bolt's mother was assiduous in making sure the house was spick and span, and ...
13m Dec 22, 2015
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Megan Davis, 'Recognition' defender getting cold feet
A member of the newly-formed Referendum Council has questioned whether a referendum recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution should be held at all.
6m Dec 07, 2015
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The Squatters' Thesaurus By Geoff Page
TRANSCRIPT The Squatters' Thesaurus By Geoff Page The frontier runs are cleared by language. Myall niggers are dispersed. The Bible and Charles Darwin both declare the sons of Cain are cursed. Two squatters on a front verandah put their feet up to relax and talk of last month's dressing down or proper thumping of the blacks. That lad of mine, one squatter smiles, is much too keen on rushing ...
1m Nov 17, 2015
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Elders to discuss repatriation of Mungo Man
Transcript will be available shortly.
4m Nov 04, 2015
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Uncle Jack Charles: Award and pay up front Taxi !
Jack Charles who was awarded Victorian Senior Australian of the Year in October 2015 but was asked to pay up front for his taxi ride because he was Aboriginal.(pic courtesy of abc.net.au)
10m Oct 30, 2015
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WA Indigenous leaders propose 'healing centres' on old missions as an alternative to foster care
In Western Australia the number of Aboriginal children being removed from their parents has almost doubled in the last five years. Now Indigenous leaders are proposing that children could be looked after by elders on former missions as an alternative to foster care. Lucy Martin reports for ABC RN 'The World Today' 22 October 2015 TRANSCRIPT: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s433...
4m Oct 22, 2015
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First Nations activists fight nuclear waste shipment
The first shipment of Australia's nuclear waste to be returned from reprocessing in France has now left a French port, and will arrive on our shores next month. The return of the 25 tonnes of nuclear waste is putting renewed pressure on the Federal Government to find a location for a permanent waste dump. Natalie Whiting ABC The World TodayRead more + Transcripthttp://www.abc.net.au/worldtoda...
5m Oct 18, 2015
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Palm Islanders welcome compensation over police mistreatment
Palm Islanders have welcomed a Court decision awarding compensation over police mistreatment after the 2004 Palm Island riot. The riot followed a police death in custody and in the aftermath, six police conducted a pre-dawn raid on a home, where they've now been found to have assaulted and falsely imprisoned a couple. Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2015/s4327034.htm
4m Oct 07, 2015
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What's sacred now? - WA Heritage Resgister
Ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula are among more than 1,000 sites the WA government removed or blocked from its Aboriginal heritage register in the last two-and-a-half years. In 2012 the government created a narrower definition of sacred sites. The Supreme Court has thrown out those changes, but the government now wants a single public servant to determine sacred sites. Sarah Dingle...
41m Oct 03, 2015
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Kimberley pastoralist wants Aboriginal rangers to take on bigger firefighting role
A pastoralist from Western Australia is calling for Indigenous ranger groups to take a more active role in preventing and fighting bushfires in the Kimberley, saying the number of fires in the region was "absolutely ridiculous".6809606 Gogo Station development manager Phillip Hams wants rangers under the auspices of the Kimberley Land Council to have a greater focus on combating fires which ra...
5m Sep 28, 2015
5m
The secret women's history of the Tasmanian Tiger
Dr Robert Paddle, a comparative psychologist at the Australian Catholic University, has spent years studying the behaviour of one of Australia's most misunderstood creatures, the Thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. And he is the author of the seminal go-to book on the animal's extinction, The Last Tasmanian Tiger. Lately, Dr Paddle has been researching the untold history of the w...
15m Sep 22, 2015
15m
'Paperless arrests' in the Northern Territory
ABC Radio National Background Briefing Police in Darwin have jailed nearly 1,000 Aboriginal people under new public order laws that allow detention without an arrest warrant. Following a black death in custody, the coroner said the laws should be repealed because they perpetuate and entrench Indigenous disadvantage. But the NT government is refusing to budge. So have 'paperless arrests' reduce...
34m Sep 22, 2015
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Aboriginal Elder Aunty Jessie Clarke turns 100
Aboriginal Elder Aunty Jessie Clarke from Bordertown (SA/Vic border) turned 100 on 21 September 2015 More than 300 friends and relatives filled the Bordertown Hall on Saturday for an early celebration of the milestone. Aunty Jessie was born at Swan Hill. Her mother was Aboriginal; her father was English. She married an Aboriginal man, Laurie Clarke, and they moved to the Bordertown area wher...
7m Sep 21, 2015
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Turnbull on 'Recognition', Scullion and other First Nation issues
The Transcript MARK COLVIN: Who'll be in charge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs in a Turnbull Government? Senator Nigel Scullion may stay as Indigenous Affairs Minister, but he's in the outer ministry - Tony Abbott always said Indigenous questions were his responsibility inside the Cabinet itself. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Go...
4m Sep 18, 2015
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Slavery in Western Australia - Stolen Wages Shame
Up until the 1970s, generations of Aboriginal workers in WA had their wages systematically stolen over decades, and only a small minority received reparation—just $2,000 in 2012. Sarah Dingle reveals the secret calculations that recommended a much higher sum, and government efforts to minimise payouts. ABC Radio National 'Background Briefing' - See more:- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pr...
41m Sep 09, 2015
41m
WA govt faces potential class action after millions stolen from Aboriginal workers
In Western Australia, the government is facing a potential class action over its controversial Stolen Wages Reparations Scheme. The scheme paid Aboriginal people a maximum of $2,000 in recognition of decades of withheld wages. Now, a Background Briefing investigation has uncovered secret financial modelling commissioned by the Government which suggests the Government owes the workers much mor...
3m Sep 09, 2015
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Bushwalker discovers fossilised remains of prehistoric rainforest in QLD
In Queensland the discovery of the fossilised remains of a 23 million-year-old rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland is shining light on a little understood period of geological history. The fossils were unearthed from a creek bed by a curious bushwalker who took them to the Queensland Museum for analysis.
5m Sep 07, 2015
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NT allows Mining giant to pollute 'country'
The Northern Territory Government is grappling with a looming environmental disaster at one of the world's biggest zinc, lead and silver mines. The McArthur mine is located about 900 kilometres south-east of Darwin in Gulf Country, and is operated by the Swiss mining giant Glencore. Documents released through a Freedom on Information request now reveal though that Glencore is failing to manag...
8m Sep 02, 2015
8m
Macquarie Perceptions: Tim Miller
A contemporary artistic response to Lachlan Macquarie's term as governor of NSW, and the crossing of the Blue Mountains. Artist Tim Miller became fascinated with the expansion of settlement west of Sydney during Macquarie's tenure. What would have been seen by the first European explorers and how their arrival might have been perceived by the local Indigenous peoples? Source: ABC Radio Nation...
11m Sep 01, 2015
11m
Macquarie Perceptions: Keith Dewell
Artistic perceptions of Lachlan Macquarie's time as governor of New South Wales. Australian artist Keith Dewell has a fascination with the human form—his drawings express ways in which the physicality of the human body exposes inner emotion. In a recent exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of Lachlan Macquarie's governorship, Keith contributes an insight into both the Aboriginal and the c...
12m Sep 01, 2015
12m
Joseph Lycett: convict artist
Joseph Lycett was a convicted English forger who was transported to New South Wales in the early nineteenth century. He had a colourful existence in Australia and documented the life of First Nations people of the Newcastle region at that time. - More info and images:- http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/true-light-and-shade-aboriginal-perspective-joseph-lycetts-artartist/6599240
29m Sep 01, 2015
29m
The 1967 referendum myths
There has been considerable misunderstandings about 1967 Referendum both in Aboriginal and mainstream Australians circles. Here is an audio made for SBS World News Radio by Ron Sutton in March 2014
13m Aug 18, 2015
13m
Pat O'Shane: The Difference between Law and Justice
For almost three decades, Pat O’Shane, the fiery daughter of an Aboriginal mother and an Irish father, was one of Australia’s most famous magistrates. In 27 eventful years on the bench, she was frequently under attack, her name never far from the word ‘controversial’ for some of her decisions and public comments. In this interview with Julia Baird on Radio National, Pat, now retired, talks abo...
6m Aug 16, 2015
6m
Federal Judge Exposes Cultural Interference
The Fortescue Metals Group owned by Andrew Forrest have come under fire from a Federal Court Judge for their involvement in supporting certain community members to break away from Traditional protocol in an attempt to free up access to land they wish to mine on. CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation in Western Australia Michael Woodley told Donna Campbell, CAAMA Radio that within Abor...
12m Aug 11, 2015
12m
Nowhere to go for the Homeless - Adelaide
2014 Audio Report: Over the last three years the support for homeless people with drug and alcohol issues in South Australia has been cut significantly.ICHAG, the Independent Community-Wide Homelessness Administrators Group has released a report describing this crisis and calling for the government to take immediate action.Backing this report is Shelter SA, and their executive director, Dr Alic...
6m Aug 07, 2015
6m
South Australia's first Indigenous female fire-fighting team forms
A group of women in a remote Aboriginal community in South Australia's APY Lands have formed the state's first indigenous female fire-fighting team. For cultural reasons women in Mimili can't work with the men in the Country Fire Service brigade in the town. However with the men often out of community on cultural business and other help so far away the women decided to get trained up so they co...
5m Jul 23, 2015
5m
Open up Sturt National Park to dingoes, say University of Sydney scientists (ABC Rural)
Researchers are calling for the dog fence to be moved as an experiment that looks at ways to protect threatened native species and increase biodiversity. The aim is to let dingoes breed up in Sturt National Park, near Cameron Corner, in far north-west New South Wales, so researchers can study the role the canines play in arid lands. University of Sydney researcher Dr Thomas Newsome said the a...
6m Jul 21, 2015
6m
AUDIO: Extreme racist groups move out of the shadows
New South Wales Police have named the rise of white supremacist groups as one of the main threats to social cohesion in Australia. Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas said a number of organisations fitting that description are moving out of the shadows. "Racist groups who have in the past worked under the radar, coming out, spreading hatred, particularly on the far-right," he said. Mr Kaldas...
4m Jul 18, 2015
4m
Audio 2 - Kukenarup massacres memorial WA SE
The Official Opening of the Kukenarup memorial on the site of WA SE Report and image by Tara De Landgrafft - ABC Rural Kokenarup massacre: In 1880, a family group of approximately 30 First Nations people were massacred about 15 kilometres from the Ravensthorpe in Western Australia's south west region. One account states that John Dunn, a farm worker, attacked and raped a young Nyoongar girl a...
7m May 26, 2015
7m
Audio 1 - Kukenarup massacres memorial WA SE
The Official Opening of the Kukenarup memorial on the site of WA SE Image: Noongar elders and sisters Carol Petterson and Roni Grey Forrest at the Kukenarup memorial Kokenarup massacre: In 1880, a family group of approximately 30 First Nations people were massacred about 15 kilometres from the Ravensthorpe in Western Australia's south west region. One account states that John Dunn, a farm wor...
12m May 26, 2015
12m
Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland’s frontier killing times
Radio National - Big Ideas 11 July 2013 The killing times. Cairns-based historian Timothy Bottoms has drawn a new map of Queensland, that places many more sites of massacres of Aboriginal people into the story than have ever been acknowledged before. And while he argues that this is a story of deep silences, what he demonstrates is how public and discussed these killings were in the nineteenth...
54m May 25, 2015
54m
Audio: 'How would you like to be me?’
'How would you like to be me?’ was a forum held in Adelaide in May 2015, aiming to shed a light on the everyday experiences of First Nation peoples around Australia. Here we have Caper, Aboriginal rap artist, Michael Ghillar Anderson, Sovereign Union founder and Jeff McMullen, journalist and activist Other speakers at the forum were included Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Alison Anderson, Tauto Sansbu...
6m May 24, 2015
6m
Mr Koowarta's case: forty years of the Racial Discrimination Act
Part one in a two-part series marking 40 years of the Racial Discrimination Act. Mr Koowarta's case could have been the end of our first human rights law.
25m May 20, 2015
25m
Elder: Lifestyles of people living remotely
Kintore community elder Irene Nangala says Tony Abbott doesn't understand the lifestyles of Aboriginal people living remotely - Ms Nangala said she moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the 1980s. Kintore is 500 kilometres west of Alice Springs and around 50 kilometres from the Western Australian border.
3m May 17, 2015
3m
‘Sacred’ title eroded from ancient Indigenous art
Audio file: Ninah Kopel 'The Wire' The Burrup peninsula is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of rock art. It was once considered sacred by the Western Australian Government. Now only select areas are considered sacred. There are more than 2,400 registered Aboriginal sites on the Burrup Peninsula, but with ancient art covering the whole region, deregistered areas mean sights of ...
4m May 15, 2015
4m
Elders concerns over closing homelands
A group of Aboriginal elders is concerned that moves to shut some remote communities in Western Australia will set a precedent for other parts of the country. After months of speculation the WA Premier Colin Barnett yesterday outlined major reforms to the ways communities are funded. He says Indigenous people will be consulted, but less viable settlements will eventually close. As Natalie Wh...
4m May 10, 2015
4m
Alice Springs: governments likened to 'vigilante groups'
A group who've dubbed themselves the 'Alice Springs Volunteer Force' have threatened violence against Aboriginal youth on social media. Aiming to recruit volunteers with firearm experience, the group proposes to crack down on the town's young offenders through vigilante-style action. Blair McFarland from the Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service says the group is deluded and only represent...
1m May 08, 2015
1m
Understanding Australia's rich and diverse Indigenous languages
Felicity Meakins, a senior researcher says awareness about Australian Indigenous languages is very low, and that most Australians have little idea about the extent of linguistic diversity across the country. Felicity is a research fellow at the University of Queensland - More about this story here: https://theconversation.com/some-australian-indigenous-languages-you-should-know-40155 From Radi...
12m May 08, 2015
12m
Bruce Pascoe and Karen Dorante shared conversation - on 'Let’s Talk'
Author of the book ‘Dark Emu – Black Seeds : Agriculture or Accident?” The book argues the idea that the first Australians were hunter gatherers has been invented to undermine Aboriginal people. "My message to my own people," he says, "is the rest of the country's not going to change if we don't stick up for our culture; and our culture was one where we had an agricultural economy." "If we s...
44m May 05, 2015
44m
A history of indigenous activism
The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League is the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. Now, the remarkable history of its activism has now come to light. Historian Richard Broome has gathered stories from former and current members and compiled them in a book called 'Fighting Hard'. He joins Patricia Karvelas in The Drawing Room along with actor and director Rachel Maza, who has a pe...
15m May 02, 2015
15m
Homeless rate of 7% in the Kimberley
From CAAMA Radio - Western Australia’s Kimberley region continues to see rising levels of homelessness with a new report claiming seven per cent of the region’s predominately Aboriginal population is currently homeless. Gerry Georgatos a long time human rights campaigner and suicide prevention researcher based in Western Australia says the current extent of homelessness in the Kimberley demons...
7m Apr 28, 2015
7m
Herbert Bropho Still Standing Strong
The Nyoongar Refugee Camp on Matagarup (Heirisson Island) Perth, Western Australia. in Western Australia again faces forced removal. Over the last few months talks of closures of remote communities in Western Australia has forced many Aboriginal people from across the state and the Country to join together in Perth to show their support to the people that will be homeless if the closures conti...
5m Apr 28, 2015
5m
Our bodies carry the sacred stories of country – Rosalie Kunoth Monks.
A respected Central Australian Aboriginal Elder has rejected the suggestion that Aboriginal women exposing their bodies during ceremony is offensive. Rosalie Kunoth-Monks a Arrernte and Alyawarra woman told CAAMA Radio that Aboriginal women’s breasts are not considered to be as sexual objects in Aboriginal culture and that they carry and posses power and ancient Law.
3m Apr 21, 2015
3m
SA leaders: community closure concerns
Mark Colvin ABC - Natalie Whiting reporting. - Indigenous leaders in South Australia are calling for a guarantee that remote communities in the state won't close as a result of funding cuts. Crisis meetings were held in the state over the weekend, and leaders are calling for an urgent meeting with the State Government. The West Australian Government has suggested closing some communities as a ...
4m Apr 02, 2015
4m
USA Media: Dr Binoy Kampmark - Abbott and Aboriginals
USA MEDIA - This Audio is especially edited by Sovereign Union just to address Abbott and First Nations Peoples issues, especially The Homelands and the Carmichael Mine. KPFK, Pacifica in Southern California discusses these First Nations issues in Australia with guest Dr. Kampmark, who teaches within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program at RMIT University in Melbou...
7m Mar 28, 2015
7m
David Lans from the remote community of Kintore, Northern Territory
Originally from Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, David Lans moved to Kintore, 520 kilometres west of Alice Springs, in a bid to gain employment in nearby mines and start his own earthmoving business. He is keen to help the people of Kintore become self-sufficient. "I'm looking to do some community work as well, in parks and gardens, building a community centre an...
8m Mar 24, 2015
8m
Community closures: Thousands protest across Australia
ABC RADIO (PM) -TRANSCRIPT DAVID MARK: Thousands of people have turned out at rallies and marches across Australia to mark Close the Gap Day. The national event aims to highlight the discrepancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians in life expectancy, employment and education. This year the focus has been on the idea flagged by the Western Australian Government and echoed by the...
5m Mar 21, 2015
5m
Warren Mundine pretends concern on homelands
Warren Mundine wants answers on Indigenous Advancement Strategy funding decisions Lindy Kerin reported this story on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:15:00 Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes)| MP3 DOWNLOADELEANOR HALL: When the Prime Minister's chief adviser on Indigenous affairs meets Tony Abbott this afternoon, he says he'll have a few things to get off his chest. Warren Mundine says he wan...
1m Mar 18, 2015
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