A look into the Australia's historical 1967 referendum. The nation was asked to vote whether they supported a law change to include aboriginal rights in the Constitution. It was an overwhelming YES vote and another step towards reconciliation. Fifty years later, a Melbourne-based author is trying to explain the historic changes to children, using the language kids know best - a picture book about friendship.
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Native Affairs – Aboriginal Men’s Movement
Tonight on Native Affairs, we head to remote Central Australia where a men's programme was created to reconnect indigenous youth with their cultural traditions. The Tjilirra Men's Movement has also been endorsed by the legendary Flying Doctors service as a way of helping men deal with mental health.
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“I tried to scrub the brown out of my skin,”- Aussie TV Star
Acclaimed Australian broadcaster Stan Grant has revealed his struggle to embrace his Aborginal culture and admits as a child he tried to scrub the brown out of his skin.
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NewsGroundbreaking indigenous cartoon to launch on Australia’s NITV
A groundbreaking new series exploring indigenous Aboriginal culture, country and language is about to launch on Australia’s NITV. “Little J & Big Cuz” is a contemporary children’s animation series offering a proud and positive view of Aboriginal Australia and the opportunities for learning within it to young Indigenous kids as they prepare for school.
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Australian twist on race relations
An Australian meat campaign has hammed up the country's multicultural society while firmly reminding who the nation's indigenous people are. The campaign features a group of aborigines setting up for a barbeque on a deserted beach, only to be joined by successive groups of different ethnicities.
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Lack of indigenous actors to play Jimmy in Priscilla Musical- Producer
An Australian soap star has questioned the decision from the producers of the musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert to cut the aboriginal characters from the show.
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NZ Rally against American $3.8bil pipeline
New Zealand rallies are being held where Racial Equity Aotearoa challenges all New Zealand organisations to join Standing Rock Sioux tribe's battle to stop a $3.8 billion oil pipeline being run under the Missouri River, in America.
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Māori offer support to whānau of killed Aboriginal teenager
The Māori community in Kalgoorlie is banding together to provide assistance to the family of a 14-year old Aboriginal teenager whose death sparked violent protests in the city. It's been reported that the incident was racially motivated.
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Native Affairs – Culture in a bottle.
A bottle of water that bridges a cultural divide? Yaru water has a unique business model in Australia, using some of its profits to educate Australians about Aboriginal culture.
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Abuse of Aborigines nothing new
An Aboriginal leader says the abuse of young boys in Australian custody is nothing new. Kyle Slabb from the Bunkulung tribe in the Gold Coast is one of the few who isn’t shocked by the disturbing footage released on the ABC network programme, Four Corners, this week.
