Banished review – it's the blackfellas who are banished from BBC drama
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This preposterous omission undermines an otherwise worthwhile watch in Redfern Now creator’s racy colonial, blood-and-guts bodice-ripper
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This preposterous omission undermines an otherwise worthwhile watch in Redfern Now creator’s racy colonial, blood-and-guts bodice-ripper
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The New York avant garde transgender singer joins the Martu people of Parnngurr in Western Australia to oppose a uranium mine 80km away
• Antony Hegarty condems genocide of indigenous peoples in Australia and US
When an international mining company surveys the Australian land for minerals it sees few physical impediments.
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‘Important and confronting’ ABC TV drama on hostile early Sydney settlement shows how precisely the past aligns with the present
The Secret River is a two-part ABC television drama that tackles the chilling fundamentals of Australian white settlement: Europeans invaded, slaughtered the first peoples and stole their land.
It is excellent. It is important. It is courageous, confronting television.
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Move may cause headache for Queensland police if those taking pledge insist on using documents issued by Indigenous nation
Queensland police may have regarded it as a rather bizarre, one-off incident when they recently arrested Murrumu Walubara Yidindji while he was driving with a licence and a car registration issued in the name of his north Queensland Indigenous nation.
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This weekend people from all over Australia, black and white, will converge on Myall Creek. The massacre of unarmed men, women and children there has become totemic of the national silence over the frontier wars
Remembering is central to healing the pain of injustice and atrocity.
Indigenous Australians have a way of remembering, the good and the bad, through oral history and art that passes memories down through the generations.
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In Canberra’s Nishi gallery photographs of precious rock art from west Arnhem Land tell an extraordinary story of first contact between the Bininj people and white explorers, hunters and miners
Warddeken ranger Terrah Guymala wards off the cold with a thick fleece and beanie while he walks around Canberra’s Nishi gallery, its walls adorned with photographs of precious rock art from his place, the “stone country” of west Arnhem Land.