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Tagged: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history

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First Australians: They Have Come to Stay - Life before contact, Episode 1
Narrator Rachel Perkins re-tells stories from the Dreamtime and historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, historian Professor Janet McCalman and writer Bruce Pascoe of...
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First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race - Vote YES for Aborigines, Episode 6
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) has fought for the rights of Aboriginal people to be recognised in line with other civil rights movements...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The wrong fence
Mr Neville (Kenneth Branagh) tells the police inspector (Roy Billing) that the three escaped girls must be following the rabbit-proof fence north, to their home. He devises a plan to catch them,...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: Mr Neville says no
At the Moore River Aboriginal settlement, Molly (Everlyn Sampi) is called out of the assembly to be inspected by Mr AO Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the Protector of Aborigines. Mr Neville checks the...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The stealing of children
As Constable Riggs (Jason Clarke) arrives, Maude (Ningali Lawford) realises he has come to take the children. They run, but Riggs cuts off their escape route and seizes the children one by one. He...
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Archie Roach: Preserving Musical History
Archie Roach talks about the importance of preserving Australia's audiovisual and sound heritage at the NFSA. In 2019 Jan Müller, CEO of the NFSA, said: ‘We are honoured to have received a deposit of...
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Liyarn Ngarn: Pat Dodson on Archie Roach
This is an excerpt from the documentary Liyarn Ngarn, featuring renowned English actor Pete Postlethwaite, Patrick Dodson and Archie Roach, who also wrote the soundtrack. Patrick is a Yawuru man. At...
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Lousy Little Sixpence: Like one big family
Two people removed from their families as children to enter into servitude, Margaret Tucker and Bill Reid, speak of their experience growing up. Historical footage shows children placed in missions....
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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - 'We'd have to start to get political', Episode 7
Narrator Rachael Perkins gives national and international political context to the times of Edward Koiki Mabo. A voice-over, derived from Eddie’s diaries and the recollections of his family, give...
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First Australians: Freedom For Our Lifetime - A 'final solution', Episode 3
Historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation describes the Protection Board as the real enemy of Aboriginal people, particularly in relation to the Half-Caste Act developed by the...
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

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