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Tagged: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history

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Q&A with High Ground Director, Stephen Maxwell Johnson
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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Art + Soul: Bitter and Sweet – Mervyn Bishop
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 the hand of traditional...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: Peter Gabriel's score
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. The book’s...
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Virtual Whadjuk: A Cultural Experience in Virtual Reality
This clip is a brief excerpt from the Virtual Reality experience, Virtual Whadjuk (2019) by Periscope Pictures.  Virtual Whadjuk is a time machine that strips away the city highrises and transports...
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First Australians: Unhealthy Government Experiment - Apology, Episode 5
Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the apology to the Stolen Generations given by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008. Interwoven are the personal experiences of Sue Gordon AM of...
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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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