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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - 'Campaign of fear', Episode 7

Father Frank Brennan, Eddie’s daughter Gail Mabo of the Meriam and Manbarra Nations and Donald Whaleboat of the Meriam Nation, talk about Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo and the outcomes of the trial. Narrator...

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First Australians: We Are No Longer Shadows - Discriminatory legislation, Episode 7

Narrator Rachel Perkins and Father Frank Brennan explain legislation brought in by the Queensland government to quash Mabo’s land claim. Barrister Bryan Keon-Cohen QC and historian Professor Marcia...

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First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race - 'A bullet doesn't know what colour you are', Episode 6

The Second World War interrupts the fight for Aboriginal rights and many Aboriginal men go to war. Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nations, Professor Bain Attwood and Richard Frankland...

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First Australians: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race - Aborigines' Advancement League, Episode 6

Historians Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation and Professor Gordon Briscoe of the Maraduntjara Nation discuss the situation of Aboriginal people in south-east Australia in the 1930s...

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First Australians: Unhealthy Government Experiment - 'No thought for the mothers', Episode 5

Sue Gordon AM of the Yamatji Nation describes her experience of being removed from her family and what is recorded in her file. Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation attempts to understand his...

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First Australians: Unhealthy Government Experiment - The killing times, Episode 5

Author Steve Kinnane of the Miriworng Nation sets the historical context of the clip. Western Australian police are reacting to calls from cattle farmers to enact revenge for loss of stock at the...

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First Australians: They Have Come to Stay - 'Can you imagine?', Episode 1

On 25 January 1788 the First Fleet enters Sydney Harbour. Narrator Rachel Perkins and historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation convey the Indigenous point of view of this event...

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First Australians: They Have Come to Stay - 'A genuine relationship', Episode 1

Narrator Rachel Perkins and interviewees Emeritus Scholar Inga Clendinnen and Associate Professor James Kohen impart the story of a cross-cultural relationship between Lieutenant Dawes and Aboriginal...

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First Australians: Her Will to Survive - 'It was the best thing to do', Episode 2

It is 1830 and European settlement has begun in Tasmania. Narrator Rachel Perkins sets the scene for the resulting inter-racial tension and violence dubbed the Black War, the harsh world Truganini is...

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First Australians: Her Will to Survive - A new science, Episode 2

This clip is set after Truganini and George Robinson have moved the remaining population of Indigenous Tasmanians to Flinders Island. Professor Lyndall Ryan explains the scientific rationalisation of...