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Saturday 02 August 2008
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Baryulgil is a tiny Aboriginal town in northern New South Wales. The giant James Hardie Industries mined raw, white asbestos for 36 years in Baryulgil until the late 1970s. The residents breathed in the toxic dust fumes and washed in asbestos-polluted water. Tailings were even deposited in roads. In the late 1990s the bulldozers moved in. Produced by Awaye!'s Lorena Allam in 1997, 'Burying Baryulgil' is a story about people who risked their lives to make a safe future for their children.
Saturday 26 July 2008
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An extraordinary story of cultural survival. It's the story of the Gija people of the north-east Kimberley and their struggle to keep their community and culture alive. It's also the story of one man's life. Timmy Timms was truly a great leader by anyone's measure. When he was buried at Bow River in February 2001, tributes flowed from around the country to recognise the achievements of a truly great Australian. 'Red Mob Wangka Man' is a program full or rare recordings of cultural ceremonies previously off-limits to non-Aboriginal people.
Saturday 19 July 2008
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In the summer of 1965, a group of Sydney University students led by a young Charles Perkins boarded a bus bound for far north western New South Wales. Their task? To draw national attention to the deeply entrenched racism and segregation that existed in towns like Moree and Walgett. ABC journalist John Cassidy joined the freedom riders as a reporter, embedded with them on the bus. He produced a fly-on-the-wall documentary which, at the time, the ABC declined to broadcast.
Saturday 12 July 2008
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Back in 1971, when school teacher Geoffrey Bardon took up a post in the Central Australian desert community of Papunya, he was oblivious to his future role in the Western Desert art movement. His simple admiration of the styles and stories behind the traditional art forms of Papunya was the catalyst for an industry now worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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