Digital resources tagged with ‘communities’

Aboriginal People Make a Canoe and Hunt a Turtle

Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory is the home of coastal Aboriginal People. On the beach it's time to play out one of the dramas of daily life - the return of the hunters.

An Australian Wedding, 1968

Powerhouse Museum Curator Dr Kimberley Webber looks at how collections bring to life Australian stories in museums.

Anna Naupa on Vanuatan heritage

Ni-Vanuatu writer and historian Anna Naupa discusses different views of South Sea Islander labour trade history.

Australian South Sea Islanders Discover the Past

Joe and Monica Leo are the descendents of ni-Vanuatu who helped build Queensland's sugar industry.

CAAMA & Indigenous Broadcasting

A broadcast studio at Radio Redfern in the late 80s. Christina Spurgeon talks about the importance of providing media services to remote Indigenous communities to the culture, identity and language of Aboriginal Australians.

Closing Day at BHP's Newcastle Steelworks

Two thousand steelworkers collect their final paychecks and walk out of Newcastle's BHP steelworks for the last time. Men break down and cry. Many have laboured here all their working lives.

Community TV

The role of community television in general and its role in training TV personalities.

Dreamings, Through Indigenous Art

Indigenous art is like topographic mapping of land and culture. Michael Nelson Tjakamarra works at painting concentric circles which represent sacred sites.

Family Life in Geelong

In a typical 60s family a mother works to get dinner ready as the children come home after school. After Dad arrives home from work in the Holden, Mum serves traditional roast lamb and three vegetables.

Helping Children in War-Torn Countries

Moira Kelly begs for funds from international charities to bring children from war-torn Albania to Australia for medical treatment. One of the children almost dies, but the results are worth the risks.

Indigenous Health Workers

Indigenous people, particularly those from remote communities, fear seeking medical attention. Joan Winch, an Indigenous health professional, set up a health worker training college for Indigenous health workers.

Journalist's Diary of a Conflict

Veteran ABC journalist, Sean Dorney, looks back on his time in Papua New Guinea covering the Bougainville crisis.

Lowitja O'Donoghue - The Stolen Generation

Lois O’Donoghue was born in 1932 in a remote Aboriginal community. She never knew her white father and, at the age of two, was taken away from her mother, who she was not to see for 33 years.

Mining Bougainville

Gregory Kopa, a Bougainville villager describes how he felt when geologists started to look for copper on Bougainville in the 1960s.

Online Communities

ALTOS - an online chat community based in Germany - provided a 'world without borders' for its members.

Overview of Australian broadcast media

Stuart Cunningham gives an overview of core broadcast media.

Pensioners Working Part-Time at a Co-Op

Some people experience retiring like hitting a brick wall, finding it hard to live on such a dramatically reduced income. "Beehive" is a Seniors employment co-operative where pensioners can work to earn a few dollars without affecting their Social Security payments.

Rosalie Kunoth Monks - Social Work

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is an actor, ex-nun and Aboriginal activist.

Rosalie Kunoth Monks - Speaking Out

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks is an actor, ex-nun and Aboriginal activist.

SBS Charter

John Safran, Megan Spencer and Scott Goodings discuss the nature of programming at SBS.

The Forgotten People

The Indonesian province of Papua has a turbulent history and rich culture. Yet it remains largely unknown.

The Songlines

Various clan groups extending across the land were linked by networks of songs containing aspects of cultural heritage, mythology and identity.

Trade Routes

Australian ‘prehistory’ is the time before written language was used to record information. Culture was passed from one group to another, and from one generation to the next, in oral form, ceremonial dance, and through rock and bark visual art.

Tuning in to the ABC

The archival clip shows the ABC network as it was in the 1955. Tim Bowden reflects on the power of ABC broadcasts to unify states and cities across Australia.

TV Soap Opera

TV soap operas have the ability to reflect Australian society and culture and connect people through the shared memory of watching a television show.

Under One Roof - The Chakos Family

Come and have dinner with the Chakos family – four generations of Greek Australians with a love of life, celebration, ritual and food.