“The Final Quarter” is a 75 minute documentary of archival media footage related to Australian indigenous AFL (Australian Football League) player, Adam Goodes. It was produced by Shark Island Productions and directed by Ian Darling and aired in 2019. The documentary covers the last 3 years of Goode’…
Blog Roll
- The Final Quarter: A Documentary Film Review. I STAND WITH ADAM GOODES
- PAUL KELLY - THE AUSTRALIAN - Uluru Statement deserves respect, but treaty would backfire
- The torment of our Powerlessness
- Survival Day 26 January - Australia's Day of shame
- Clinton's Walk for Justice - Perth to Canberra
- Intolerance & Ignorance: Racism - The Silent Destroyer
- Putuparri and the Rainmakers
- Invasion Day - 26 January 1788
- Native Title
- Artworks by Mirree
- A call for solidarity: Many minds can locate the true pathway
- We do not need to get over it- we are waiting for you to catch up with it!
- First Nations People Ventures to Support
- Songlines and the Importance of Language
- RECOGNISE Aboriginal Sovereignty by Treaty
- PARADISE LOST
- Aboriginal Art Symbols
- Third Call to Action - continue services to Remote Indigenous Communities
- Recognise the Spirit
- What happens when a remote community is closed?
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Blog posts : "Culture"
Intolerance & Ignorance: Racism - The Silent Destroyer
From Blackfulla Revolution
https://www.facebook.com/ourcountryourchoice/posts/697898670350412
29 April 2016
My partner is an incredibly strong man. Resilient, compassionate and calm in the face of much turbulence, stress and hurt.
Some days it gets to him though. It's not that he does …
Putuparri and the Rainmakers
I can't wait to see this movie!
Putuparri and the Rainmakers
Ten years in the making, the film is an extraordinary eyewitness account of the living traditions of Putuparri’s people.
The film spans 20 transformative years in the life of Tom "Putuparri" Lawford as he navigates the deep chas…
Invasion Day - 26 January 1788
Most Australians celebrate Australia Day as the day Australia was founded.
In contrast, Aboriginal people mourn their history and call it ‘Invasion Day’. January 26, 1788 was the date on which Captain Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales and raised the Bri…
Native Title
By definition Native Title is a property right which reflects a relationship to land which is of a spiritual, cultural or historical significance to the claimants. The non-discriminatory protection of native title is a recognised human right.
Some government representatives refer to NT as a 'brid…
Songlines and the Importance of Language
According to Aboriginal cosmology, the great Dreaming Ancestors shaped the earth, its continents, oceans, rivers and its veins of crystals, pigments and minerals. Their activities still resonate in the shapes and energies that bathe the earth and all life processes. These energies are often referr…