Karla Grant Presents - Season 2

Karla Grant Presents - Season 2

Season 2

Network
DatesAug 26, 2024 - Jan 20, 2025
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Episodes

Learning On Country
Season 2Episode 230 min

Learning On Country

Take a journey through the NT top end to discover how traditional culture and knowledge is being incorporated into remote schools to create a twoway learning mode

Aug 26, 2024
Learning On Country: Maningrida Camp
Season 2Episode 330 min

Learning On Country: Maningrida Camp

Sep 2, 2024
Lousy Little Sixpence Remastered
Season 2Episode 460 min

Lousy Little Sixpence Remastered

Sep 9, 2024
Cracks In The Mask
Season 2Episode 530 min

Cracks In The Mask

The mysterious Torres Strait Island turtleshell masks collected last century are unique and 
irreplaceable, yet none are now left in the 
hands of traditional owners. They are all in 
foreign museums.

Sep 16, 2024
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
Season 2Episode 625 min

Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

Directed by Tracy Moffatt and shot entirely in a studio, this is the haunting story of a middle-aged Aboriginal woman who nurses her white mother.

Sep 23, 2024
Karla Grant Presents: 'Bread and Dripping' and 'Yorky Billy'
Season 2Episode 740 min

Karla Grant Presents: "Bread and Dripping" and "Yorky Billy"

Bread and Dripping
Four women recount their lives during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s. Tibby Whalan, Eileen Pittman, Beryl Armstrong and Mary Wright describe their struggles to survive and maintain families when faced with widespread unemployment, evictions and hardship.
The film makes extensive use of archival footage and photographs from the 1930s to 
present a unique insight into the lives of women in Australia. Made in 1981, the documentary has been restored from 16mm original film materials.
Yorky Billy
This film by Kim McKenzie is a portrait of a disappearing way of life in the Northern Territory outback. At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the NT, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as "Yorky Billy") reflects on his life. 

Sep 30, 2024
Mparntwe: Sacred Sites
Season 2Episode 830 min

Mparntwe: Sacred Sites

A look at the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe in Central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of urban expansion.

Oct 7, 2024
Vote Yes For Aborigines
Season 2Episode 930 min

Vote Yes For Aborigines

Looks at the 1967 referendum, where over 90% of voters agreed that Aborigines be counted in the census, effectively acknowledging Aboriginal people as citizens within their own country.

Oct 14, 2024
Takeover
Season 2Episode 1030 min

Takeover

Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government.

Oct 21, 2024
The House-Opening
Season 2Episode 1150 min

The House-Opening

House-opening ceremonies in a contemporary Aboriginal community combine elements of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and European cultures in dealing with death.

Oct 28, 2024
Vacant Posession
Season 2Episode 1230 min

Vacant Posession

A haunting drama about personal and public loss, about white ownership and Aboriginal dispossession, and about the difficulty of reconciliation. 

Nov 4, 2024
Angels Of War
Season 2Episode 1330 min

Angels Of War

The experiences of the Indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea during World War Two, when 2 million foreign soldiers fought battles on their land. 

Nov 11, 2024
The Last Of The Nomads
Season 2Episode 1430 min

The Last Of The Nomads

 The moving story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia.

Nov 18, 2024
The Coolbaroo Club
Season 2Episode 1530 min

The Coolbaroo Club

A look at an Aboriginal-run dance club that welcomed all races equally after World War II, and saved Aboriginal people from many of the discriminations.

Nov 25, 2024
Singing Country: Loren Ryan
Season 2Episode 1635 min

Singing Country: Loren Ryan

Proud Gamilaraay woman Loren Ryan is a musician, Aboriginal culture teacher, and now a trainee reporter with ABC New England North West. 

Dec 30, 2024
Too Many Captains Cooks
Season 2Episode 1730 min

Too Many Captains Cooks

Between Cook discovering Australia and Aboriginal people discovering Cook, there are clearly various historical truths. 

Jan 20, 2025

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