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Despite a restorative justice approach to sentencing Aboriginal offenders in Canada, incarceration rates continue to rise. Why?
A market garden in Burnie helps feed local families; hairy highland cattle win a beef award; we limber up with tractor yoga classes; and join the Deadly Runners group on Thursday Island.
When the Gurindji walked off Wave Hill station their demands were simple: equal wages, not meagre rations. The fight escalated into the first Aboriginal land claim. Led by head stockman Vincent Lingiari, the strike buoyed the Aboriginal rights movement down south and spurred activism for a generation. A unionist, a historian and an artist reflect on the meaning of Wave Hill.
A market garden in Burnie helps feed local families; hairy highland cattle win a beef award; we limber up with tractor yoga classes; and join the Deadly Runners group on Thursday Island.
About 7,000 historic blood samples, taken from Indigenous Australians in the 1960s and 1970s, have sat untouched at the Australian National University since a moratorium in the 1990s.
We really love having you listen to RN but we need to let you know that we’ll be closing our subject podcasts (don’t worry—we aren’t cancelling any shows). To keep hearing stories and interviews from RN, search for your favourite shows in the ABC Radio App or subscribe in your preferred podcasting app.
Named after an ancient indigenous song form, Tjaabi is a new production which offers a unique glimpse into the living Aboriginal culture of the Pilbara.
The Human Rights Commission will be asked to investigate a series of deaths and potentially fatal misdiagnoses of Aboriginal people within Australia's national healthcare system.
The prevalence of alcohol fuelled violent crime in Alice Springs is a persistent problem for which there is no easy solution.
A young Indigenous thinker says Aboriginal culture is one that 'accepts violence' and a solution to the abuse of women must come from within
Indigenous kids are learning Maths through traditional stories and dance.
The land drew Sue and David Woods to Australia's 'red centre,' to establish Campfire in the Heart as a place of spiritual reflection, while it also also inspired Peter Sculthorpe's music, according to composer and close friend Anne Boyd.
A rite of passage

A rite of passage

2016-08-1308:11

The film Zach's Ceremony is a feature length documentary about a traditional Aboriginal rite of passage - initiation.
In the far south-west of New South Wales we meet a team of environmental rangers who are trying to bring country back to life by coaxing animal populations back, constructing 'fish hotels' to keep the fry safe from predators and protecting cultural heritage sites.
A serious painting for serious times is how the judges describe the Telstra Award winning artwork Tribal Abduction by Harold Thomas - better known as a landscape painter and the man who designed the Aboriginal flag.
The ACT government has announced its plan to be the first state or territory in Australia to celebrate Reconciliation Day as a public holiday.
Is constitutional recognition, without a ‘Treaty’, designed to placate of non-Indigenous Australians with the appearance of change?
The hard lesson learnt by the U.S. Civil Rights movement was that incremental, palatable, largely ‘symbolic’ victories can often act like a pressure-relief valve: easing the burden on the conscience of the white majority, but indefinitely delaying real, substantive justice. Is constitutional recognition, without a permanent settlement or ‘Treaty’ with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, one such palatable measure designed to placate of non-Indigenous Australians with the appearance of change?
When Matthew met Ella

When Matthew met Ella

2016-08-1015:26

Ella Havelka, The Australian Ballet's first indigenous dancer in conversation with Sir Matthew Bourne, the UK's most awarded choreographer.
Imagine if asylum-seekers were welcomed to our shores by an Aboriginal elder rather than security guards at a privately-run offshore detention centre. A production by Western Sydney's Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Tribunal establishes a people's court to decide what happens when we exercise human kindness instead of fear.
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