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Indigenous Rights & Land Rights
* Warning: Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are advised that these programs may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement - The legality of British conquest. Loss of rights and paternalism. Activism in 1960s to present day, including Tent Embassy, black power, increasing sophistication and the reaction of authorities. The importance of Mabo is highlighted.
Mabo (movie) - Marking the twentieth anniversary of the historic High Court decision, Mabo is the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo - the Torres Strait Islander who, despite leaving school at 15, spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Invasion (480 Mabo ep.1) - 5 episode series ( 480 Mabo 20th anniversary special also available)
In 1788 Britain legally claimed Australia to be terra nullius - a law whereby Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land. The move dispossessed hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of their land, culture and spiritual connections. It also sparked a battle that would continue through generations and shape what Australia is today. (From ABC TV program guide).
The Freedom Riders : Australian and American Civil Rights - 15 m - The USA Civil Rights Movement 'Freedom Rides' used civil disobedience to great effect. They also influenced the Freedom Ride in Australia which involved Sydney University students going by bus through rural NSW and challenging segregation in businesses and communities. This program explores the Freedom Ride as part of a wider push by Aboriginal Australians to engage in activism and social reform across the nation.
The Freedom Riders : Australian and American Civil Rights - 15 m - The USA Civil Rights Movement 'Freedom Rides' used civil disobedience to great effect. They also influenced the Freedom Ride in Australia which involved Sydney University students going by bus through rural NSW and challenging segregation in businesses and communities. This program explores the Freedom Ride as part of a wider push by Aboriginal Australians to engage in activism and social reform across the nation.
The Sapphires (movie) - Four talented singers, from an Aboriginal mission, are discovered by an unlikely talent scout. Plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes, The Sapphires grasp the chance of a lifetime when they’re offered their first real gig – entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Within a comic framework, it talks about the obstacles they have to overcome as Aboriginal people.
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1967 Referendum - Civil rights activist Faith Bandler describes a long and well-organised struggle for the referendum and the reasons for it.
Charles Perkins Campaigns for Aboriginal Rights - Why was 1967 a turning point in the struggle for legal equality and the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
The Wave Hill Walk-Off: More Than a Wage Dispute - Visit Wattie Creek at Wave Hill station in 1968. It is two years into the historic strike known as the 'Wave Hill walk-off' led by the Aboriginal Elder Vincent Lingiari. I
Websites
Websites
Indigenous Rights - The fifteen years from the late 1950s to the early 1970s was a time of unusual collaboration between black and white activists in Australia. Alliances were formed between Aboriginal Australians motivated to help their people and white Australians wanting to redress the injustices suffered by dispossessed peoples in the building of the Australian state.
Indigenous Rights - The fifteen years from the late 1950s to the early 1970s was a time of unusual collaboration between black and white activists in Australia. Alliances were formed between Aboriginal Australians motivated to help their people and white Australians wanting to redress the injustices suffered by dispossessed peoples in the building of the Australian state.
Stolen Generation
Videos
Videos
Australian History: Part 2 - 23 m - Chapter 4 The Stolen Generation
Missions, Settlements and Reserves 28 m - We see how well defined, complex and fascinating the Aboriginal kinship system was and still is today.
White Australia Has A Black History - 22 m - An overview covering: the coming of the Europeans, wars, massacres, disease and dispossession, missions, reserves, racism, population decline, stolen children, political activism, land rights, native title and culture.
Stolen generations - 52 m - Indigenous filmmaker Darlene Johnson draws on personal stories and commentary to describe the experience of Australia's stolen generations.
Rabbit-Proof Fence - 89 m - In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek to return to their home. Based on the book Follow the rabbit proof fence by Molly's daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara.
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