• First Nations First

  • By: SBS
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First Nations First

By: SBS
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  • Summary

  • Follow stories concerning First Nations peoples and Indigenous Australia, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team.
    Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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Politics & Government Social Sciences
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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

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.