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Paul Keating's speech to launch the Year of the World's Indigenous People - 'Redfern Address'.

"In the early 1990s Paul Keating's Labor government put Aboriginal reconciliation high on the agenda, establishing the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 1991 then following up the High Court's Mabo decision in 1992 with native title legislation in 1993. In December 1992, Keating launched Australia's program for the International Year of the World's Indigenous People with this now famous address to a largely Indigenous crowd at Redfern Park in Sydney" (Source: abc.net.au).

Paul Keating's Redfern address.

Ningla A-Na: Hungry for our Land

"Ningla A-Na documents the activism of the Black movement in south-east Australia in the 1970s and shows how the activists changed the direction of the movement both nationally and internationally" (Source: Australian Screen).

http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/ningla-a-na/

First Contact

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Episode 1

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