Episodes

  • New project challenges Australia's colonial-lens historical views

    New project challenges Australia's colonial-lens historical views
    Nov 22 2024
    A new million-dollar project from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University is compiling the largest ever documentary history of Australia from an Indigenous perspective. Ngura Ninti, which means 'knowing home', is the first of its kind and aims to challenge the common understanding of Australian history as told through a colonial lens.
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    8 mins
  • Why is Australia taking so long to sign a formal treaty with First Nations peoples?

    Why is Australia taking so long to sign a formal treaty with First Nations peoples?
    Nov 22 2024
    For generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have called for a formal treaty or treaties to recognise their sovereignty. Now, formal negotiations have begun in Victoria to establish the nation's first-ever treaty between a state and its First Nations people. But other countries including Canada, New Zealand and the United States began signing treaties centuries ago, so what's taken Australia so long?
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    10 mins
  • Record incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians prompt calls for community-led solutions

    Record incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians prompt calls for community-led solutions
    Nov 13 2024
    New data from the New South Wales government suggests there's a record number of Aboriginal adults in custody in the state. Advocacy groups are calling for community-led solutions nationally to combat the over-representation of Indigenous adults and children in custody.
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    6 mins
  • Remembering one of the darkest chapters in Australian history

    Remembering one of the darkest chapters in Australian history
    Nov 12 2024
    This is the legacy of Rottnest Island, now a popular tourist destination off the coast of Perth - thousands of First Nations men and boys sent to suffer or die on a prison island in horrific circumstances. Descendants of those who were imprisoned there have now come together to commemorate the island's traumatic past and celebrate the resilience of their people.
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    4 mins
  • Lawyer warns NT policies on legal aid are 'catastrophic, unsustainable, untenable, and dishonest'

    Lawyer warns NT policies on legal aid are 'catastrophic, unsustainable, untenable, and dishonest'
    Nov 4 2024
    As the new Northern Territory government implements the tough-on-crime policies that helped bring them to office, access to legal aid is being cut back sharply, raising concerns vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be left to defend themselves in court.
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    9 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles

    INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles
    Oct 24 2024
    Senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her protest during the King's visit to Canberra. She says her calls for a treaty have garnered international attention, and has furthered the national conversation. But the headlines remain squarely on her eligibility as a senator. Listen to her full interview with SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson about the controversy.
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    14 mins
  • Tiwi people hold healing ceremony for bereaved US families

    Tiwi people hold healing ceremony for bereaved US families
    Sep 26 2024
    A traditional healing ceremony has been held in Darwin for the families of three US Marines who died during a training exercise over the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory. Around two dozen personnel were on board an Osprey aircraft when it crashed on the remote Melville Island, north of Darwin, in August last year.
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    3 mins
  • The laundry service that's changing lives for good

    The laundry service that's changing lives for good
    Sep 26 2024
    A free community laundry service has seen encouraging results in reducing the prevalence of skin infections and scabies in remote Northern Territory communities. Untreated scabies infestations can lead to dangerous secondary infections, which can then be a factor in causing rheumatic heart disease.
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    7 mins