• First Nations First

  • By: SBS
  • Podcast

First Nations First

By: SBS
  • Summary

  • Follow stories concerning First Nations peoples and Indigenous Australia, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team.
    Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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Episodes
  • A "national shame": landmark Northern Territory inquest shines light on DV
    Nov 25 2024
    The Northern Territory Coroner has handed down her findings into the killing of four Aboriginal women by their partners. After a year-long inquiry, Elisabeth Armitage has painted a bleak picture of 'relentless violence' against women and children, with frontline agencies overwhelmed and underfunded. She has now made 35 recommendations calling for change.
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    6 mins
  • New project challenges Australia's colonial-lens historical views
    Nov 22 2024
    A new million-dollar project from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University is compiling the largest ever documentary history of Australia from an Indigenous perspective. Ngura Ninti, which means 'knowing home', is the first of its kind and aims to challenge the common understanding of Australian history as told through a colonial lens.
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    8 mins
  • Why is Australia taking so long to sign a formal treaty with First Nations peoples?
    Nov 22 2024
    For generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have called for a formal treaty or treaties to recognise their sovereignty. Now, formal negotiations have begun in Victoria to establish the nation's first-ever treaty between a state and its First Nations people. But other countries including Canada, New Zealand and the United States began signing treaties centuries ago, so what's taken Australia so long?
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    10 mins

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