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Representing Australia’s Aboriginal languages in fictional television
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the representation of Australian Aboriginal languages in fictional television series, using ‘textual tracing’ to analyse their treatment across screenplays/scripts, dialogue, English subtitles/closed captions, and post-production scripts. The data consists of recent ‘mainstream’ series that cater to mixed audiences on Australian public broadcasters (ABC, SBS).
Australia's secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. It contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and potentially offensive terminology when referring to First Nations people. The 1967 referendum is celebrated for its promise that First Nations people of Australia would be counted. But when they were, many white experts decided the Aboriginal population was growing too fast—and took steps to stop this growth.
Friday essay: ‘too many Aboriginal babies’ - Australia’s secret history of Aboriginal population control in the 1960s
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. It contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and potentially offensive terminology when referring to First Nations people. The 1967 referendum is celebrated for its promise that First Nations people of Australia would be counted. But when they were, many white experts decided the Aboriginal population was growing too fast – and took steps to stop this growth.
Invasion Day Special - Aboriginal Tent Embassy 50th anniversary activist speeches, alpine Indigenous language revival, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service discusses self-determination, systemic racism, ending deaths in custody and protest rights
Content warning for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations listeners: This broadcast contains the voices and names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have died, and references to suicide, trauma and deaths in custody.
Sacred landscapes: snow and the high country
How do the places we love shape our sense of the sacred? Dr Jonica Newby and Professor Jakelin Troy take us into the coldest regions of Australia, deepening our understanding of the spiritual importance of snow. Professor Jakelin Troy is a Ngarigo woman from Australia's alpine regions in NSW and Victoria, the Director of Indigenous Research at the University of Sydney, and a linguist. Ngarigo woman, Professor Jakelin Troy, skiing in Thredbo.
First contact between Aboriginal people and the British of the First Fleet.
Keri Phillips: Hello, welcome to Rear Vision. I'm Keri Phillips. On 26th January 1788, the ships of the First Fleet started unloading the first of more than a thousand people—convicted criminals, officers, marines, women and children—who would set up camp in what became the city of Sydney. How we remember this date has become the subject of debate but it's not the subject of this program.
Dr G Yunupingu died a needless death after a life of inhuman treatment. We must work harder to close the gap
With the passing of Dr G Yunupingu, Australia has not only lost a monumental musical talent but tragically also one of the greatest ambassadors for the cause of our Aboriginal languages. We can no longer say his full name, because this is the Yolngu way. But his legacy to the world is an achingly beautiful body of music in Yolngu Matha, the language of his country, Elcho Island in north-east Arnhem Land. Yolngu Matha is the name of a group of languages and dialects.
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