TAGGED: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history
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This 1994 documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area.

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This clip shows historical photographs and drawings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and townships are intercut with contemporary images of Brisbane.

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The NFSA pays tribute to the legacy of documentary filmmaker Ian Dunlop OAM (1927–2021).

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In this excerpt from Art + Soul Episode 3: Bitter and Sweet, Mervyn Bishop talks about his most famous photograph – Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically pouring sand into th

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the first raising of the Aboriginal flag in July 1971, proud Kamilaroi yinarr (woman) Cheree Toka writes about what the Aboriginal flag means to her.

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This news story from Nine News in 1997 outlines the copyright case that recognised artist Harold Thomas as the designer, and therefore the copyright owner, of the Australian Aboriginal flag.

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Listen to a Q&A with director Stephen Maxwell Johnson about his revisionist Western High Ground, set in Arnhem Land during the frontier wars.

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NFSA Indigenous Connections manager Tasha James conducts a Q&A with High Ground director, Stephen Johnson at Arc Cinema, Canberra in March 2021.

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This is probably the film’s most controversial scene, as well as the most harrowing, partly because it’s different to the way Doris Pilkington Garimara describes her abduction in the book.

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Director Pat Fiske shares her story about the making of the landmark documentary Australia Daze.