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Watch – short videos
- Ask Away! (2021) – Tasmanian Aboriginal people talking about identity, stereotypes, health, and truth and history in Tasmania
- Connection to country – Tasmanian Aboriginal community talking about the importance of Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area for their culture
- Traditional Burning Practices in the Huon Valley
- Learning palawa kani (Behind the News)
- This Place (ABC TV): The longest river in Tasmania has 3 Aboriginal place names
- The Needwonnee Walk (Tasmania)
- Palawa kipli – bushfoods in lutruwita – (4th episode on the list)
- Sea Country – a Great Southern Reef film exploring Tasmanian Aboriginal connection to kelp forests
- Shelley Reys AO, “Deliver an Acknowledgement of Country that really means something”
- Dion Devow, “Through the eyes of a Black Australian”
- Sheila Humphries, “My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild”
- Apology to the Stolen Generations (2008) – short version
- Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Redfern Speech, December 1992
Watch – documentaries
- The Australian Wars (SBS) – Episode 2 focusses on Tasmania.
- The First Australians (SBS) – Episode 2 focusses on Tasmania.
- Stuff the British Stole (ABC) Series 2 episode 4 – Girl And Her Doll: In 2022, a tattered black doll was sent from Britain to the First Nations people of lutruwita/Tasmania, carrying with it a devastating story of a stolen child.
- Black Man’s Houses (1992) – The descendants of Tasmania’s Aboriginal people search for the lost graves of their ancestors opening old wounds in the community and prompting a new look at racism and Aboriginal resistance.
- ABC Compass – Changing Tides
- I Was Actually There: Series 1 Nicky Winmar – A moment on a footy field where Nicky Winmar, a proud Noongar man, called out racism.
- Insight: Season 2022 Episode 34 – Indigenous identity
- The Final Quarter (2019)
- The Australian Dream (2019)
- Apology to the Stolen Generations (2008) – full official video from Parliament House
- Chelsea Watego – The Power & Possibility of Black Knowing (2024)
Listen
- Uluru Statement from the Heart, read by Pat Anderson, Stan Grant, Adam Goodes, Ursula Yovich and Troy Cassar-Daley – Spotify / YouTube
- Noel Pearson 2022 Boyer Lectures
- Archie Roach: Turning Spirit into Song (ABC, 2019)
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) podcasts
- Deadly Story – podcasts
- History Victoria podcasts
- Yarn in the Community podcasts
- Awaye! podcast
- The Urban List podcasts
- Blak Nation Podcast conversations – cultural safety in the workplace
- A.B. Original – 26 January (song – *language warning*)
Read
- Pathway to Truth-Telling and Treaty (2021)
- Senate Inquiry – Missing and murdered First Nations women and children (2024)
- Samantha Faulkner (ed.), Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
- Anita Heiss (ed.), Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
- Chelsea Watego, Another Day in the Colony
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- Ziggy Ramos, Human? A Lie That’s Been Killing Us Since 1788
- H Reynolds and N Clements, Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
- Final Report of the Referendum Council (2017) – background to the Uluru Statement from the Heart
- Bringing Them Home – Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1997) – Chapter 6 focusses on Tasmania
- Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991)
Amplify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices
- Tune into SBS NITV or read the Koori Mail, National Indigenous Times and IndigenousX for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander news, current affairs and entertainment
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led peak bodies
- Coalition of Peaks – list of members
- Health – NACCHO
- Education – NATSIEC and NATSIHEC
- #RaiseTheAge – national campaign to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility
Be a respectful ally
- Inform yourself on how you can be a respectful ally to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people through the resource Decolonising Solidarity
- Learn how to be an active bystander if you witness racism
- Learn about and implement anti-racism in your workplace, school, or community organisation