• First Nations First

  • By: SBS
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First Nations First

By: SBS
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  • 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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Politics & Government Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Why is Australia taking so long to sign a formal treaty with First Nations peoples?

    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
  • Record incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians prompt calls for community-led solutions

    Record incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians prompt calls for community-led solutions
    Nov 13 2024
    New data from the New South Wales government suggests there's a record number of Aboriginal adults in custody in the state. Advocacy groups are calling for community-led solutions nationally to combat the over-representation of Indigenous adults and children in custody.
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    6 mins
  • Remembering one of the darkest chapters in Australian history

    Remembering one of the darkest chapters in Australian history
    Nov 12 2024
    This is the legacy of Rottnest Island, now a popular tourist destination off the coast of Perth - thousands of First Nations men and boys sent to suffer or die on a prison island in horrific circumstances. Descendants of those who were imprisoned there have now come together to commemorate the island's traumatic past and celebrate the resilience of their people.
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    4 mins

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