Past Programs
Indigenous - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - 2008
Nathanael Pepper Read Transcript
25/05/2008
In 1860 Nathanael Pepper became the Moravian Protestant mission's first Aboriginal convert. He would become a symbol of Evangelical Christianity's struggle to convert the indigenous people of Australia.
Daisy Bates, the Great White Queen of the Never-Never Lands Read Transcript
03/02/2008
She was famous in her time as the white woman who lived among the Aborigines, recording their customs, feeding them simple food, and befriending the people she also accused of cannibalism and laziness. But Daisy Bates (1859-1951) was a bundle of contradictions, starting from her religious origins and her anti-Catholic sentiments. Professor in History at Murdoch University, Bob Reece, is her biographer.
