Karla Grant Presents - Season 2

Season 2

Episodes

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

Learning On Country: Maningrida Camp

Lousy Little Sixpence Remastered

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Too Many Captains Cooks
Between Cook discovering Australia and Aboriginal people discovering Cook, there are clearly various historical truths.
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