Sovereign Union

Gary Foley 'in a past life' was a well known throughout Australia and beyond as an Aboriginal activist that didn't mince his words. Dr Gary Foley is now an academic, writer and actor. In a lead up to his 2014 Melbourne University lecture, 'Tangled up in black' he speaks with Jonathan Green from ABC's Radio National.

Part 1

Delegates at a bush meeting by the Yule River Representatives from Pilbara Aboriginal communities vote to reject the proposed changes to the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act.

'The Wire' interview with Simon Hawkins - CEO, Yamtji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation - September 2014 Western Australia paved the way for Australia in the issue of Aboriginal heritage. But now, it's making a huge backflip. The state passed the nation’s first laws to protect sites of Aboriginal Heritage. The Government of Western Australia has proposed amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act, whic...

Murrumu Walubara Yidindji in a frank, informative and inspiring conversation with Michelle Lovegrove - SBS Living Black Radio 30 September 2014

ABC - AM - Michael Brissenden Across Australia female imprisonment rates have doubled in the last decade and Indigenous women account for almost the entire increase. That's the shocking finding of new research conducted by criminologist Professor Eileen Baldry, who's labelled the situation appalling and scandalous. The first Indigenous magistrate in New South Wales, Pat O'Shane, says handing out r...

John Paul Janke from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs with the story of a 19th century tintype photo of a young Aboriginal woman. Source: ABC TV 66 Canberra  -

Mick's eyesight must have got worse if he hasn't seen the growing skepticism regarding the CON-stitution recognition farce by many First Nations people. He fronted up for the the Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Broome with a lot of hoo har on the topic 'The Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Australian Constitution as an Act of Recon...

The Victorian Government has bought another 27 shipping containers to house the growing number of prisoners in the state's jails. There will be 18 new shipping containers, or prefabricated buildings known as dongas, at Fulham Correctional Centre in Gippsland and another nine at the Marngoneet Correctional Centre near Geelong. AUDIO: More shipping containers to house Victoria's prisoners (The World...

Not a real Book Review, but rather an interview with the author Larissa Behrendt about the book. How much do you know about Australia's indigenous culture? Michael Pavlich speaks to Prof Larissa Behrendt, author of "Indigenous Australia for Dummies" she's also a barrister and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. Recorded in July...

In the early 1800's, when a fourteen year old French cabin-boy Narcisse Pelletier, who was abandoned by his captain and crew to die beside a dried up waterhole on Cape York but was rescued by the Uutaalnganu Aboriginal people. He also lived for seventeen years with them near what is now Lockhart River, going far out to sea in canoes with tribe members, hunting dugong, ray and turtle. He only left...

Bruce Pascoe feels a visceral urge to write. His latest novel is a story about solitude, mateship and dying set in the Victorian bush. It's hero is that most reviled of introduced species - the fox. But his forthcoming work of non-fiction Dark Emu challenges what can only be described as a startling lack of intellectual curiosity about Aboriginal agriculture.

CAAMA Radio broadcaster Mikaela Simpson caught up with Mr Pascoe to discuss his discoveries, which date back to the first European explorers and their interaction with the First Nations Peoples. Bruce Pascoe joined the Mildura’s Writers Festival to talk about his latest book Dark Emu. The book challenges the idea that the first Australians were hunters and gathers, claiming this label was invented...

Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly The centuries-old notion that pre-European Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers who did not farm the land they occupied is under further challenge. A new book by award winning indigenous author Bruce Pascoe draws on the diaries of early explorers to provide evidence that Aboriginal people across the continent were sowing, harvesting, irrigating and stori...

Sam Watson interviewed by Tim Cox on 612 ABC Brisbane Last week was NAIDOC Week, and you may have heard us talking here on Breakfast about formal recognition for Indigenous soldiers. But what do you think about recognition for the dealths of Aboriginal people during conflicts between them and white settlers? A UQ academic has said that more than 65,000 Aboriginal people died in Queensland alone be...

Ngarluma elder and park ranger Geoffrey Togo explains that it is on sacred land, steeped in culture and tradition. "It's very spiritual in lots of ways for us," he says. "Basically, I've been brought up to look after the place, with all the rest of the Ngarluma people."

Verica Jokic reports on ABC Radio National -10 July 2014 For almost a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous Australians were forced to work for pastoral stations, missions and government reserves for little more than pocket money. Some have called it legalised slavery and are now fighting to recoup stolen wages. . Between the 1860s and the 1970s, Aboriginal people of all ages were taken from th...

Unprecedented legal action has begun in Perth, with the family of a murdered indigenous woman suing the WA Police service and the State Government for negligence. Andrea Pickett was stabbed to death by her estranged husband in Perth in 2009 after he repeatedly breached restraining orders. An inquest in 2012 found that police had failed to investigate or act on the multiple breaches. Andrea Pickett...

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks wins Human Rights Award! 2014 - Caama Radio News http://caama.com.au/rosalie-kunoth-monks-wins-human-rights-award

Howard plans constitutional recognition of Aborigines 11 October , 2007 - Reporter: Gillian Bradford MARK COLVIN: The Prime Minister has tonight announced a new agenda on reconciliation. John Howard says if re-elected the Coalition will hold a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the preamble of the Constitution. For more on the Prime Minister's speech, I'm joined now from Canberra -...

Gerry Georgatos, Correspondent - National Indigenous Radio New South Wales – A tent embassy at North Lismore has gathered to protect a sacred plateau from a property development of over fifteen hundred houses. Bundjalung Wyia-bal elder Mickey Ryan says the Department of Planning hasn't consulted on sacred sites and cultural heritage and he's lodged a writ in Court to prevent the development. Mr Ry...

In the Anangu Pitjintjatjara Yangkunjatjara (APY) lands in northern South Australia, traditional health knowledge is alive and well, and working in a contemporary setting. ABC AWAYE program - Presented by Rhianna Patrick Image: Ngangkari healers Rama Simpson (left) and Cyril McKenzie More at: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/

Aboriginal health may be high on the policy agenda, but traditional Aboriginal healers hardly rate a mention in Australia’s official health policies. Annie Hastwell meets an Italian researcher who is determined to raise their profile and bring them into the mainstream. From the ABC AWAYE program - Read More: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/first-nation-healers-working-keep-traditional-m...

On the 18 June 2014 - Damian Williams from CAAMA Radio speaks with Paddy Gibson, Senior Researcher from Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning