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Quenten Agius, Kim Mavromatis
King William IV recognised the continued rights to land for Aboriginal people in South Australia's founding document, the Letters Patent, in Feb 1836. The first ever Aboriginal rights granted in Australia's colonial history. Rights to the land, to…
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Warren Foster, Stuart Cohen
Kuringal re-enacts the 1883 gathering of First Nations people at the top of Doctor George Mountain, on NSW's Far South Coast, for a Kuringal ceremony also known as a men's initiation ceremony. The gathering brought more than 130 First Nations people…
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Michael Longbottom
Originally started in 1930 as an "all-blacks" team when racial division was rife, this footie club later embraced people from many nations around the world.
Footie games have become a vital part of the La Perouse community ("La Pa" for the locals).…
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Trevor Graham
Land Bilong Islanders follows Queensland's Supreme Court to Murray Island, the centre of a legal battle which forever altered relationships between black and white in Australia.
Murray Island, or Mer, lies to the north of the Australian mainland.…
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Gary Hamaguchi
The documentary Larapinta shares its name with the oldest river in the world (also known as The Finke River), which runs through the heart of Central Australia.
How do we live in harmony with the environment and what can we learn from the land’s…
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David MacDougall
Link-Up Diary explores the consequences of the New South Wales government’s long-term practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents and raising them in “white” environments. The film takes the form of a personal journey by the…
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Eddie Martin
In 1968, Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose became the the first Indigenous world bantamweight boxing champion when after 15 rounds he defeated Fighting Harada in Tokyo. He returned home to a hero's welcome by a crowd of 250,000.
Lionel is a very lucid…
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Fran Dobbie
Domestic abuse is a dark shadow that lives in the heart of Australian society, affecting individuals, families and neighbourhoods. In regional, rural and remote Australia, whole communities can be affected.
In this powerful short film, this often…
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Martin Mhando
"Liyarn Ngarn", in the Yawuru language of the West Kimberly region around Broome, means "Coming Together of the Spirit". Liyarn Ngarn represents a thirty year long mission of Indigenous leader and Yawura man, Patrick Dodson, to bring about a lasting…
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Steven McGregor, Danielle MacLean
Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky creates a new songline for 21st century Australia, a fresh look at the Cook legend from a First Nations' perspective.
The songline tells of connection to country, spirituality, resistance and survival and features the…
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Beck Cole
Teenager Jessie Bartlett Nungarrayi takes us on a journey from Alice Springs to the ancestral homelands of her Pintubi grandmothers where the old ladies propose to teach her about relationships with men – the lore of love, traditional way.
With her…
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Alec Morgan
When Lousy Little Sixpence was first screened it caused shock and disbelief in Australia because viewers couldn't believe what they were seeing.
Lousy Little Sixpence tells the story of five children, now Elders and representatives for an entire…
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Curtis Levy
Made at the request of the Aboriginal people of Mornington Island, Lurugu was the first of five films made by Curtis Levy for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,…
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Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Four years in the making, this animated film documents the song-cycle of the Goolarabooloo people, along the path of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail which was established in 1987 by Goolarabooloo Elder Paddy Roe, and stretching from Broome up through…
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Rachel Perkins
Mabo is a telemovie that chronicles Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo’s ten-year battle with the High Court to overturn the concept of terra nullius and recognise native title in Australia.
At the heart of the struggle is the tender love story of…
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Trevor Graham
A man ahead of his time, Eddie Koiki Mabo, left an indelible legacy to the people of Australia, reshaping the landscape and opening up possibilities that many never dared dream of. The gentle spoken individual behind one of the most important…
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Kim McKenzie
Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the Festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and…
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Richard Jasek
Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of creative trailblazing, as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for this important $100,000 prize.
In a story that spans the globe from Europe to…
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Beck Cole
Making Samson & Delilah shows the fascinating story behind the making of one of the most acclaimed Australian films.
A director, a producer, two teenage actors, a small crew and six weeks in the desert. Throw in an observational documentary…
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Curtis Levy
Gustav Malbangka and his family lived at Hermansburg Mission in central Australia. Like many other people, they wish to leave the social problems of the congested settlement behind them and return to their traditional land at Gilbert Springs.…
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Jessie Boylan
Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia.
Maralinga was subject to 12 major nuclear…