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This video gives people the chance to ask the awkward and naive questions

You can't ask that

The Marella (Emu Man) Songline, from the Djugan Country.

Songlines

SBS - Footprints

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Who We Are: Country

Reconciliation Australia

This snippet from Wirriya Small Boy, is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco.

Wirriya

We listen to their stories as they prepare their camp: stories rich in knowledge of the place and its history.

Crookhat and the Kulunada

Nganampa Anwernekenhe

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Tnorola

Nganampa Anwernekenhe

Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

First Australians

Episode 1: They have come to stay

It is a myth that the first Australians were eradicated in Tasmania.

First Australians

Episode 2: Her will to survive

The threat of extinction hovers over the first Australians of Victoria.

First Australians

Episode 3: Freedom of our lifetime

Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

First Australians

Episode 4: There is no other law

Jandamurra - he trades in his status as a police tracker for his own people.

First Australians

Episode 5: An unhealthy government experiment

A mass political movement helped win constitutional rights in 1967.

First Australians

Episode 6: A fair deal for the black race

The struggle for land rights and one of its heroes is Eddie Koiki Mabo.

First Australians

Episode 7: We are no longer shadows

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Who We Are: Culture

Reconciliation Australia

Otto Campion Bulmaniya tells the story about serpent dreaming.

Dark Science

From SBS: Wirridji

A group of women travel from the Pilbara through to Kiwikurra.

Songlines

Wardbukkarra is the story of creation as told by the Bininj people.

Songlines

Wurray is a Dreamtime character. He is one of our "makers".

Songlines

Sheba Dignari travels to teach the younger generation about the brolga.

Songlines

Goorrandalng: Brolga Dreaming

Naji is a songline recorded as part of the songlines on screen project.

Songlines

Daniel Walbidi visits the traditional homelands of his family for the first time.

Desert Heart Segment

Jimmy Edgar shows us some nature bush honey from the tree in his traditional lands surrounding Broome.

Custodians

Yarruwu - Broome

The story of Putuparri, who was raised on a cattle station and educated in the western world.

Putuparri and the Rainmakers

This years NAIDOC theme is Because of Her We Can honours strong woman past and present who have shaped people to be who they are today.

Because of her I can

Beryl Carmichael is an elder of the Ngiyeempaa tribe in New South Wales. Her land has many large inland lakes which she explains their stories.

Custodians

Joseph Edgar is a traditional owner of Karrajarri tribe in The Kimberleys. His people are salt water people who rely heavily on the coast.

Custodians

Bidyadanga, The Kimberley's

Jeffrey Lee is a traditional owner of the Djok Clan in the Kakadu National Park. He has just recently saved his land from being mined by International mining giants.

Custodians

Jack Charles shares his story of survival and harship as a member of the stolen generations.

Stolen Generations

The Healing Foundation

Utopia (2013) is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.

Utopia

by John Pilliger

Talkabout Walkabout invites the audience into Australian Aboriginal Walkabout as a spiritual pilgrimage, dispelling myths of walkabout as a divergence from responsibility.

Talkabout Walkabout

Casting from a Yolngu family at Bremer Island and Yirrkala. The Marika Clan.

Yonglu People

Pampila Hanson Boxer was born in Old Cherrabun Station, south of Fitzroy Crossing, in 1941.

The Dreamcarver

A Portrait of Pampilla

This filmed Welcome to Country is performed by Wurundjeri Elder Colin Hunter Jr. at the confluence of the Yarra River and Merri Creek.

Welcome to Country

Jock Zonfrillo travels to the Kimberley in far north Western Australia to learn what the Nyul Nyul community traditionally eat and how they prepare it.

Orana

Women Living Off The Lands, is a bush foods documentary filmed in Ngurulpila with women and children from Wingellina Community.

Women Living off the Lands

Hand signs are a bedrock of everyday communication in Aboriginal communities.

Marumpu Wangka!

Nayuka Gorrie is calling on Australia to “sign the lease, pay the bond”, and draw up a treaty with Aboriginal Australians.

Why We Want A Treaty

Is Australia really a multicultural safe haven of equal opportunity? Or is racism more prevalent than ever before?

IQ2 Racism Debate

Anyone who has ever lived in a remote Aboriginal community understands the importance of hand signs as a bedrock of everyday communication.

Hand Talk

Stephen Oliver unpacks Aboriginal identity and being a First Australian in this country.

Stephen Oliver

NAIDOC Awards 2015

Touching short film from Beyond Blue about how racism leads to mental health problems in Indigenous Australians.

Indigenous People

Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

First Australians

Episode 1: They have come to stay

It is a myth that the first Australians were eradicated in Tasmania.

First Australians

Episode 2: Her will to survive

The threat of extinction hovers over the first Australians of Victoria.

First Australians

Episode 3: Freedom of our lifetime

Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

First Australians

Episode 4: There is no other law

Jandamurra - he trades in his status as a police tracker for his own people.

First Australians

Episode 5: An unhealthy government experiment

A mass political movement helped win constitutional rights in 1967.

First Australians

Episode 6: A fair deal for the black race

The struggle for land rights and one of its heroes is Eddie Koiki Mabo.

First Australians

Episode 7: We are no longer shadows

The story of Putuparri, who was raised on a cattle station and educated in the western world.

Putuparri and the Rainmakers

Daniel Walbidi visits the traditional homelands of his family for the first time in Wirpna.

Desert Heart Segment

Jack Charles shares his story of survival and harship as a member of the stolen generations.

Stolen Generations

The Healing Foundation

Utopia (2013) is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.

Utopia

by John Pilliger

Talkabout Walkabout invites the audience into Australian Aboriginal Walkabout as a spiritual pilgrimage, dispelling myths of walkabout as a divergence from responsibility.

Talkabout Walkabout

This video gives people the chance to ask the awkward and naive questions

You can't ask that

The Marella (Emu Man) Songline, from the Djugan Country.

Songlines

SBS - Footprints

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Who We Are: Country

Reconciliation Australia

This snippet from Wirriya Small Boy, is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco.

Wirriya

We listen to their stories as they prepare their camp: stories rich in knowledge of the place and its history.

Crookhat and the Kulunada

Nganampa Anwernekenhe

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Tnorola

Nganampa Anwernekenhe

The struggle for land rights and one of its heroes is Eddie Koiki Mabo.

First Australians

Episode 7: We are no longer shadows

Stories about communities, history and cultures in contemporary Australia.

Who We Are: Culture

Reconciliation Australia

Otto Campion Bulmaniya tells the story about serpent dreaming.

Dark Science

From SBS: Wirridji

A group of women travel from the Pilbara through to Kiwikurra.

Songlines

Wardbukkarra is the story of creation as told by the Bininj people.

Songlines

Wurray is a Dreamtime character. He is one of our "makers".

Songlines

Sheba Dignari travels to teach the younger generation about the brolga.

Songlines

Goorrandalng: Brolga Dreaming

Naji is a songline recorded as part of the songlines on screen project.

Songlines

Stephen talks about discrimination and his life as an Aboriginal Australian

Human Movie Segment

Jimmy Edgar shows us some nature bush honey from the tree in his traditional lands surrounding Broome.

Custodians

Yarruwu - Broome

The story of Putuparri, who was raised on a cattle station and educated in the western world.

Putuparri and the Rainmakers

Daniel Walbidi visits the traditional homelands of his family for the first time in Wirpna.

Desert Heart Segment

Casting from a Yolngu family at Bremer Island and Yirrkala. The Marika Clan.

Yonglu People

Pampila Hanson Boxer was born in Old Cherrabun Station, south of Fitzroy Crossing, in 1941.

The Dreamcarver

A Portrait of Pampilla

This filmed Welcome to Country is performed by Wurundjeri Elder Colin Hunter Jr. at the confluence of the Yarra River and Merri Creek.

Welcome to Country

Beryl Carmichael is an elder of the Ngiyeempaa tribe in New South Wales. Her land has many large inland lakes which she explains their stories.

Custodians

Joseph Edgar is a traditional owner of Karrajarri tribe in The Kimberleys. His people are salt water people who rely heavily on the coast.

Custodians

Bidyadanga, The Kimberley's

Jeffrey Lee is a traditional owner of the Djok Clan in the Kakadu National Park. He has just recently saved his land from being mined by International mining giants.

Custodians

Jock Zonfrillo travels to the Kimberley in far north Western Australia to learn what the Nyul Nyul community traditionally eat and how they prepare it.

Orana

Women Living Off The Lands, is a bush foods documentary filmed in Ngurulpila with women and children from Wingellina Community.

Women Living off the Lands

Anyone who has ever lived in a remote Aboriginal community understands the importance of hand signs. These are meant not only for the hearing impaired, but are a bedrock of everyday communication.

Marumpu Wangka!

Nayuka Gorrie is calling on Australia to “sign the lease, pay the bond”, and draw up a treaty with Aboriginal Australians.

Why We Want A Treaty

Is Australia really a multicultural safe haven of equal opportunity? Or is racism more prevalent than ever before?

IQ2 Racism Debate

Hand signs are a bedrock of everyday communication in remote Aboriginal communities.

Hand Talk

Stephen Oliver unpacks Aboriginal identity and being a First Australian in this country.

Stephen Oliver

NAIDOC Awards 2015

Touching short film from Beyond Blue about how racism leads to mental health problems in Indigenous Australians.

Indigenous People

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