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Arlun McCormack, a young Arrernte man from Alice Springs, tells us his story of the fight he faces every day with substance abuse and how he won that fight.
Five senior Alywarr lawmen, take a 450km trip from their Central Australian community of Ali Curung to visit the sacred sites of a significant Dingo Songline.
The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together. Audrey Napanangka was born at a time when the world was changing for the people in the Central Australian Desert. Settler colonisation was permeating the desert and forced changes and the fusion of two worlds shifted Audrey’s life forever. Today, Audrey raises young people to walk in many worlds, by centering culture, language, and Law in their lives alongside mainstream education. The intimate footage filmed over 10 years in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Yuendumu and Audrey’s Warlpiri country Mount Theo, showcases a heartwarming story about the power of kinship and family in what is known as Australia.
Film maker, Warwick Thornton’s international success has come at a personal cost. He has reached a crossroad in his life and something has to change. He has chosen to try giving up life in the fast lane for a while, to go it alone, on an isolated beach in one of the most beautiful yet brutal environments in the world, to see if he can transform and heal his life.
They were Australia's bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.
A new sketch comedy show from some of the funniest blackfellas in Australia. (Well, they better be.) Following in the footsteps of the 1973 pilot Basically Black, this is the first sketch comedy series written entirely by blackfellas and commissioned by the ABC.
A sketch comedy show by blackfellas. For everyone.
There is a rich and powerful story stitched into a few pieces of coloured fabric of a man whose design created meaning for a nation of people once invisible to the mainland of Australia. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Torres Strait Islander Flag as we journey into the Straits with Bala B to uncover and honour the life and times of his late father – Bernard Namok Senior, the flag’s creator.
Veronica Dobson AM is an Aboriginal scholar. She grew up walking Eastern Arrernte country with her family who hold Ulampe (rain making), Utnerregatye (sacred caterpillar) and other totemic lines. Today, she seeks to bridge Arrernte and European ways of thinking and doing - but there are many challenges.
It's 1999, and Constable Jay Swan, a charismatic young officer arrives at his new station. Fresh from the city and tipped for big things, Jay might be the new copper, but he's not new to this town. His estranged father Jack lives here, as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary.
Easter 2000. As a quarter of a million people prepare to march around the country in an unprecedented show of support for Reconciliation, Jay Swan and Mary Allen attempt to forge a new life together in a fading timber town still mired in racism and denial. With the trial of his father’s murderer now concluded, Jay has promised to put his pain behind him and join Mary on her mother’s Country as they care for Mary’s niece, Anya, and await the birth of their first child. It doesn’t take long, though, for the majesty of the surrounding forests and the deep lake that shimmers at the heart of the town, to take on gothic dimensions…
Robbie is a troublemaker with a heart of gold living in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia, wreaking havoc with his gang of merry boys. They’re in their mid-teens, young enough to get a slap on the wrist by the law, old enough to know better.
On an outback farm ravaged by drought, a single mum and her three kids lives are upended when a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes onto their property, and a wily teenager seizes the opportunity to save the farm and put her fractured family back together.
A period western set on the Northern Territory frontier where justice is put on trial.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL is an eight-episode road series set in Central and South Australia in the 1980s. On a search for the truth behind a family secret, Robyn, a young Aboriginal delinquent, escapes from detention and reluctantly teams up with awkward teenager Gidge. Together they flee her small central desert community on a perilous journey across the outback, finding answers and learning some hard life lessons along the way. Hot on their heels are Maxine, a sex worker whose taxi Robyn stole, and Gidge’s domineering father Robert, a fraudulent preacher.
An Old Fella teaches a Young Fella there are more ways than one to heal the spirit.
What does it mean to be young, disabled and sexual in modern Australia? WE ARE SEXUAL BEINGS digs into the sordid and sometimes painful details as we follow three remarkably different human beings who all happen to share two things in common: life altering spinal injuries and healthy sexual appetites.
It’s an intergalactic tale of rebellion, symbolism and recognition. Made by one of Australia’s leading film-makers, this controversial film asks tough questions about who we really are as a nation by examining the cultural place of the Southern Cross constellation in the Australian psyche.
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