Past Programs
Youth - 2008
What comes after Sorry?
11/10/2008
It has now been nine months since Kevin Rudd apologised to the members of the Stolen Generations. While this symbolic event was very important for Indigenous Australians, Professor Larissa Behrendt of UTS maps out what needs to be done next to help communities build strength, good health and education.
In this wide-ranging speech given at a public forum at UTS, she examines the NT Intervention and other government initiatives, to look at what works and what doesn't.
We also hear from David Cole, manager of the Balunu Foundation in Darwin. They work with young at-risk Indigenous people, giving them a sense of purpose and pride.
'The name Balunu comes from the Luritja language of Central Australia. The word Balunu means creation and this is what we are about: the creation of strong youth, strong culture, strong leaders, for a strong future by breaking negative cycles and creating positive ones.'
Intervention blues
19/04/2008
You'd be forgiven for thinking the Commonwealth intervention had reached into the north-western New South Wales town of Walgett, where youth allowance and Abstudy payments can be quarantined under a scheme designed to lift school attendance rates.
Nick McClean travels to Walgett to hear from parents and elders.
Also, we sit down with Jacinta Numina, a printmaker whose work is inspired by the awelye, or ceremonial body lines.
Something from the vault - the sparkling wit Anita Heiss performs her poem 'Token Koori' and we replay a speech the writer Alice Walker gave to a literary conference in New York in 1984, after her novel 'The Colour Purple' won the Pulitzer Prize.
