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Deep Dive: Ian Darling, Michael O'Loughlin, Tanya Hosch and Fran Kelly on The Final Quarter
Director Ian Darling, ex-footballer Michael O’Loughlin, and AFL Inclusion and Social Policy Manager Tanya Hosch discuss the Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter and racism in sport with ABC's...
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A Short History of Indigenous Filmmaking
Within a generation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers have become a vibrant presence in the centre of filmmaking in Australia.
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The Final Quarter Q&A
In July 2019 the NFSA hosted a screening of director Ian Darling’s documentary The Final Quarter, about the events that provoked heated public debate and the retirement of champion AFL player Adam...
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Deadly Sounds: Nicky Winmar
Listen to this short segment of Deadly Sounds, a weekly one-hour Indigenous radio program featuring interviews with special guests and music by Indigenous artists. Hosted by journalist, actor and...
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Awaye!: Archie Roach – Louis is me and I'm Louis
Archie Roach, in conversation with Daniel Browning for the Indigenous ABC Radio National program AWAYE!, talks about Louis St John Johnson. Louis was a young Aboriginal man who was brutally murdered...
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Wrong Kind of Black
This series is based on the life of Boori Monty Pryor, a Birri-gubbah-Kunggandji-Kukuimudji man from Townsville. It revisits his time as a young man in the 1970s living in Melbourne then Perth, as...
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Archie Roach: Singing About Social Justice
Archie Roach's passion for social justice comes across in songs like 'Louis St John' - about the racially motivated murder of a young man and 'Beautiful Child' about Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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Louis St John
This excerpt from the documentary Liyarn Ngarn introduces Louis St John Johnson – a young Aboriginal man who was brutally murdered at age 19 by two white youths. Later the murderers admitted that...
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Archie Roach: Ruby Hunter Recording ‘Louis St John’
This clip of home movie footage shows Ruby Hunter recording vocals for the song 'Louis St John' from the 1997 album Looking For Butterboy. Archie wrote the song about the racially-motivated murder of...
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From Sand to Celluloid - Two Bob Mermaid: ‘Swimmin’… that’s for white fellas’
Aboriginal kids cling to the fence that keeps them out of the pool area. In the pool, Koorine (Carrie Prosser) races a young girl (Megan Drury). They talk about being like Dawn Fraser and Esther...
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