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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures


National Sorry Day

National Sorry Day

Miniclips: Australian Celebrations and Commemorations

National Sorry Day is held on 26 May to encourage us to reflect on the mistreatment of First Nations people in Australia. This Miniclip uses European settlement and the Stolen Generation to highlight the grief, suffering, and injustice...Show More
Off Country

Off Country

Off Country follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar. From inside the boarding house, on the sports field...Show More
Maralinga Tjarutja

Maralinga Tjarutja

Surviving aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength, the Maralinga people fight to retain their country. These lands have been home to the Maralinga people...Show More
Christian Missions and Indigenous Australia

Christian Missions and Indigenous Australia

Colonising Australia (1788–1901)

Colonisation was not only about taking land and resources for imperial powers, but also about seeking to convert, or ‘civilise’, indigenous people to European ways of thinking. This video explores the impact of Christian missions on the...Show More
Impact of Colonisation on Indigenous Australians

Impact of Colonisation on Indigenous Australians

Colonising Australia (1788–1901)

When the British invaded the Australian continent in 1788, it ended a way of life that had existed for more than fifty thousand years for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This video explores the profound impact of European...Show More
International Women's Day

International Women's Day

Miniclips

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on March 8 – but why is this day important? What does the day signify? This Miniclip explores the origins of women’s suffrage throughout Australia’s modern history including the granting...Show More
Long-Term Impacts

Long-Term Impacts

Miniclips: The Gold Rush

The gold rush began just over 60 years after Europeans arrived to Australia, but how did this decade transform the cultural, political, environmental, and economic threads of the nation? Ronan takes viewers through the construction of...Show More
Who, When, Where and Why?

Who, When, Where and Why?

Miniclips: The Gold Rush

How did the Australian gold rush begin in 1851? Who kicked it off? Where did it occur, and why is gold so valuable? Join Ronan, an Irish digger come to try his hand at striking rich, as he explores the beginning of gold fever in Australia...Show More
Australia Goes to War

Australia Goes to War

World War I

As a dominion of the British Empire, it was inevitable for Australia to be drawn into the First World War. This video explores Australian attitudes towards enlistment during WWI and how these changed over the course of the war and highlights the...Show More
Bennelong

Bennelong

Bangarra Dance Theatre

Woollarawarre Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora, from the Port Jackson area in Sydney. With extraordinary curiosity and diplomacy, Bennelong led his community to survive a clash of cultures, and left a legacy that reverberates through...Show More
Naa Muru Gurung: 'To See A Path for Children'

Naa Muru Gurung: 'To See A Path for Children'

This inspiring film celebrates the courage and resilience of those who, for over a century, have fought for the right of Aboriginal children to public education. It traces the journey from when discrimination, prejudice and outright racism...Show More
Reg Saunders: Aboriginal War Hero

Reg Saunders: Aboriginal War Hero

World War II: Australian Experience

Australia was at war, yet although Indigenous Australians were considered unfit to fight, plenty enlisted, including Reg Saunders who fought in the Mediterranean and New Guinea, becoming the first commissioned Aboriginal officer. This frank...Show More
NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week

Miniclips: Australian Celebrations and Commemorations

NAIDOC Week is an annual celebration full of fun and festivities. But what exactly is the purpose of NAIDOC Week? And what is the history behind it? This Miniclip explores the events that led up to the formation of NAIDOC, how the Day of Mourning...Show More
Modern Australian Cuisine

Modern Australian Cuisine

Australian Food Story

What a feast! Australians eat a huge diversity of food. Join animated friends Norman and Miranda as they tempt us with tasty morsels about the many influences on modern Australian cuisine – geography and climate, a plateful of Indigenous and...Show More
Connection to Country

Connection to Country

This is a compelling look at the world’s oldest continuous culture, a culture whose sacred sites are older than any of the world’s most famous monuments. Connection to Country follows a group of Indigenous people from the Pilbara as they...Show More
Indigenous Knowledge and Practice of Sustainability

Indigenous Knowledge and Practice of Sustainability

Miniclips: First Nations Histories and Cultures

This Miniclip explores the importance of seeking out and listening to Indigenous views about sustainability, derived from continued custodial responsibility to Place and Country, when developing strategies to effectively manage our environments....Show More
The Freedom Riders: Australian and American Civil Rights

The Freedom Riders: Australian and American Civil Rights

Rights and Freedoms

The USA Civil Rights Movement ‘Freedom Rides’ used civil disobedience to great effect. They also influenced the Freedom Ride in Australia which involved Sydney University students going by bus through rural NSW and challenging segregation in...Show More
Paul Keating at Redfern

Paul Keating at Redfern

The Power of Speech

A persuasive speech aims to convince audiences of the speaker's position. Ethos, Pathos and Logos - or appealing to an audience’s values, emotions and logic – are commonly used. In 1993 Prime Minister Paul Keating delivered a speech in...Show More
The Drover's Boy

The Drover's Boy

'The Drover's Boy' is a 'hybrid' blend of music, documentary and drama. The story is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. It was not uncommon for a...Show More
Beyond Australia

Beyond Australia

The Art of Australia

In the third installment, Beyond Australia, Edmund Capon explores how, since the 1960s, Australia and its art went global. Transformed into a migrant nation, Australia's dependence on Britain ended and artists played a huge role in shaping the...Show More
Coming of Age

Coming of Age

The Art of Australia

The second episode, Coming of Age, explores how Australia identity evolved in the 20th century and how modern art down under struggled to emerge. As modern artists expressed both the dreams and the demons of this new nation, they met with decades...Show More
Strangers in a Strange Land

Strangers in a Strange Land

The Art of Australia

Strangers in a Strange Land tells the story of how art helped European settlers come to terms with an unfamiliar land, and how ignoring 60,000 years of indigenous culture, they saw the place through a distorted European lens, until a uniquely...Show More
The Future Ancients

The Future Ancients

Poems by Luka Lesson

'The Future Ancients', written and produced by Luka Lesson. In the future the history books will study us our cities will have been renamed our languages slanged into something new and this moment will one day be ancient The future...Show More
The Secrets of the Kimberley

The Secrets of the Kimberley

The Kimberley is one of the most ecologically diverse areas of the world. Its marine ecosystems are amongst the world's most pristine. At 424500 square kilometers the Kimberley is bigger than Italy or Germany and it has over 3000 uninhabited...Show More
Patyegarang

Patyegarang

Bangarra Dance Theatre

Choreography by Stephen Page Produced by Bangarra Dance Theatre in 2013. As the colonial fleet arrived on Eora country in the late 18th Century, Patyegarang befriended the colony’s timekeeper, Lieutenant William Dawes, gifting him her language...Show More

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