This resource list is particularly relevant to SACE Stage 2 Aboriginal Studies, bus is also a useful reference for teachers across a number of Stage 1 and 2 subjects.
 

Resource centres and people

DECS Tape Services for dubbing of relevant television programs onto blank tapes, tel: 8377 0339 or search on www.tapeservices.sa.edu.au

PLAIN video services, accessible through the Public Libraries system or to registered borrowers, www.savideoandfilm.plain.sa.gov.au

Aboriginal Education Resource Centre - Libraian
5 Harewood Avenue, Enfield 5085,
tel: 8343 6539, fax: 8343 6515

Find out about local Aboriginal cultural instructors through the Aboriginal Education Coordinator in the DECS District Officers:

• Felixstowe, tel: 8366 8800
• Elizabeth, tel: 8256 8111
• Flinders Park, tel: 8416 7333
• Noarlunga, tel: 8207 3700
• Murraylands, tel: 8532 0700
• Riverland, tel: 8595 2323
• Whyalla, tel: 8645 6568
• Port Lincoln, tel: 8682 3788
• Port Augusta, tel: 8641 6877
• Mount Gambier 8724 5300
• Naracoorte 8762 3099
• Port Pirie 8638 1501

Tauondi Inc., 1 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide provides cultural instructors to schools through their Aboriginal cultural tourism course, tel: 8240 0300 for enquiries and bookings.

Tandanya: Aboriginal cultural institute, Education Officer, 253 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, tel: 8224 3200.

South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, Family History Unit, tel: 8207 7381, Education Officer: tel: 8207 7427

Field trips

Ngarrindjeri

Camp Coorong

PO Box 220, Meningie 5264, tel: 8575 1557, fax: 8575 1448. Accomodation for students, with activites including a museum, basket weaving, bush food, medicine walking trail and other trips. Call centre for prices and further information, or also visit the DECS website www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au/pages/Learners/Camp_Coorong/

Coorong Wilderness Lodge

Hacks Point, tel: 8575 6001, fax: 8575 6041, PO Box 294 Meningie 5264. Provides and a shared kitchenette. Canoe trips available and nature trails. Run by Ngarrindjeri people, George Trevorrow and family. Restaurant has dinner and lunch menus. Call for further information.

Narungga

Yorke Peninsula

For a tour including an overnight bunkhouse camp at Innes National Park. Contact Tauondi for a guide and Shaun at Innes to book accommodation $10 per person.

Adnyamathanha

Flinders Ranges

Camp near Hawker, contact, Pauline Coulthard tel: 8648 4303, PO Box 66, Hawker 5434. Various camping sites available for school groups, with Pauline providing a wide range of possible activities includinig medicine from plants, food preperation, history talks, or other topics as requested. Write for further information.

Igawarta

Adnyamathanha culture camp run by Coulthard family, east of Copley, near Nepabunna in the Flinders Ranges tel: 8648 3737 www.igawarta.com, postal address: Igawarta Copley 5732. Aboriginal Cultural Tours include Adnyamathanha interpretation of the environment, tours to painting sites, tour story sites and learn of their significance. Learn about the importance of the local flora and fauna, bush medicine, taste bush tucker (seasons permitting), listen to stories, learn about Adnyamathanha culture through music, learn about contemporary Adnyamathanha society. Camping or motel accommodation. Horse rides and four wheel drive tours are also available on request.

History

Handouts

Timeline of legislation affecting Aboriginal people

Copy available from Aboriginal Education Resource Centre, tel: 8343 6539. or on website www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au

Role play of Aboriginal history in South Australia

A role play activity based on traditional life and history of five South Australian Aboriginal groups, Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, Adnyamathanha, Kookatha and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara, copy available from Aboriginal Education Resource Centre, tel: 8343 6539, or on website www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au

Role play of Aboriginal history of lower Eyre Peninsula

Copy available from Aboriginal Education Resrouce Centre, tel: 8343 6539. or on website www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au

Role play of Ngarrindjeri history

This is included in the book Ngarrindjeri people and environment: past, present and future, DECS 2001, available from Curriculum Corporation www.curriculum.edu.au or on website www.aboriginaleducation.sa.edu.au

Videos

TS = DECS Tape Services www.tapeservices.sa.edu.au
PLAIN = Public library system www.savideoandfilm.plain.sa.gov.au

Babakiueria - A humorous, satirical role reversal of Australian history, told as a television documentary. Aboriginal viewers find it very funny and it may confuse others until its satire is explained to them. It helps to show it in segments.

Black magic - Social and political history through lives and experiences of Aboriginal footballers in WA. 1988 55mins PLAIN 718 617

Blood Brothers: From little things, big things grow - About Kev Carmody, Aboriginal singer/songwriter and includes a song about Vincent Lingiari and land rights, 1993. 52mins TS.

Coolbaroo Club - The story of a social club, established in Perth in the 1950s and possibly the only place of its kind in Australia, where Aboriginal adults could meet to dance, sing and have supper, away from stares and restrictions of the wider society. Re-enactments of evenings at the club and interviews, discussion of the permit system and exemption certificates applicable at time. 1997 54mins TS

Exile and the kingdom - Produced with Aboriginal people from the Pilbara region in Western Australia and tells their people’s history from pre-colonial times to the present. 1993 110mins TS PLAIN

First born: The life and times of Jack Davis - Interview with Jack Davis, playwright, actor and poet 1991. TS V26502.

Freedom ride - SBS Blood brothers series, 54 minutes, V311. Charlie Perkins and university students took a bus to country New South Wales to counter racism and highlight issues like Aboriginal children not being allowed into town swimming pools.

Frontier (3 episodes) - Hard hitting documentary series based on Henry Reynolds books about Aboriginal violence on the 'frontier: Mostly eastern states and Tasmania, but also occurred in SA. Sensitive discussion time required for debriefing, otherwise unresolved anger or guilt could result. Helpful to show in small segments. 1996 3x60mins ABC/TS

Harry’s War Award winning short film based on WWII experiences, at home and in Papua New Guinea, of the uncle of the film maker, Richard Frankland. 1999 26 mins PLAIN

How the west was lost - The story of the Aboriginal pastoral workers’ strike in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which started in 1946 and continued indefinitely. Police were unable to break the strike, which began as Aboriginal people were paid a pittance while having to purchase materials and clothing from station owners. The story is told through archival footage and by the old men to the young children around the campfire. 55mins TS

Inside Story: The Fair Go - Winning The 1967 Referendum Politics and law 1999 56 mins TS V655

Koori: a will to win - Recounts the history of a NSW family, their dispossession, how they lived in missions, had their children taken away and are now rediscovering their history and culture. 1991 50mins TS U11023

Lousy little sixpence - The film weaves a moving account of the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights when, in 1909, the NSW Aborigines Protection Board planned to break up Aboriginal communities. Uses archive film, old newsreels and interviews. 1982 54 mins Ronin Films $95.00

Munda Nyringu - Aboriginal perspective of history of mining towns Kalgoorlie, Leonora and Laerton (WA), powerfully narrated by Maureen Watson, with cartoons by Bruce Petty. 1983 47mins PLAIN 722 712

Oceans apart - Blackout series profiles three Aboriginal women who grew up in different worlds; Britta, who is 18, was adopted at birth and raised in Denmark, and is now a radio journalist in Sydney; Margaret, in her mid-30s from Darwin, is now lecturing at university in NSW; and Rosalie, in her mid-50s, who grew up on a reserve near Sydney, is now an administrator for the performing arts at the Australia Council. 1992 30mins TS

People of the lake - The Gunditjmara people of Lake Condah in western Victoria talk about and show aspects of traditional life through to present day. 10 mins Video Education Australasia

Secret country - Documentary by John Pilger which examines the violent, racist history of Australia Use with sensitivity and preferably have students compare it with Babakiueria

Two bob mermaid (Sand to Celluloid series) - A short film written and directed by Darlene Johnson, set in 1957 in a country town. A young Aboriginal girl must choose between the swimming championships and sticking up for her darker skinned relatives, who are not allowed at the pool. 1996 15mins TS

Women of the sun - Series includes Alinta the flame, contact history on the Victorian coast; Maydina the shadow, effects of sealing and missions; Nerida Anderson, walkout from a reserve; and Lo-arna, the 'stolen generation. 1981, excellent overview of Aboriginal history from traditional pre-European contact times to 1980s. 4 x 60mins Ronin Films (school price) 4 for $120

Books and CD Roms

Frontier CD Rom, ABC, www.abc.net.au/frontier

Blood on the wattle, B Elder, Child Associates, 1988.

Survival in our own land, Christobel Mattingley and Ken Hampton, Wakefield Press 1988. Aboriginal history of several communities and individuals in South Australia

The Ngaanyatjarra of the Gibson Desert, Fighting for Survival series, Heinemann 1998.

Wangkangurru of the Desert, Judy Lucas and Alex Barlow, Heinemann Library, 1997.

Literature

Life stories

Chryssides, Helen, 1993, Local heroes, Collins Dove, Blackburn Vic. Interviews with Ian Abdulla (artist), Stephen Page (dancer), Catherine Freeman (sprinter), Roger Bennet (playwright), Lorraine Liddle (lawyer), Lana Abbott (community worker), Rosalie Kunoth-Monks (actress, nun, grandmother, community leader, Yami Lester (station manager, community leader), Mandawuy Yunupingu (musician, school principal, Galarrwuy Yunupingu (community leader).

Coolwell, Wayne, 1993, My kind of people: achievement, identity and Aboriginality, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld. Interviews with Gordon Bennett (painter), Mark Ella (rugby player), Rhoda Roberts (TV presenter-journalist), Shirley Nirrpurranydji (school principal), Ernie Dingo (actor), Linda Bonson (dancer), Maroochy Barambah (opera singer), Sandra Eades (doctor), Noel Pearson (land rights advocate), and Archie Roach (singer-songwriter)

Crawford, Evelyn, 1993, Over my tracks: a remarkable life, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic. Growing up in western New South Wales in the bush, on missions, working as a drover and having her own family.

Davis, Jack, A Boy’s Life, Magabala Books, 1991 2000. The humorous account of the trials and tribulations of his early years growing up in Western Australia

Dodd, Billy, Broken Dreams, University of Queensland Press, 1992. When he was 18 years old Billy dived into a river, broke his neck and became a quadriplegic. The book tells his story of growing up in the bush, working as a stockman and then building a new life for himself after his accident.

Huggins, Rita and Jackie, Auntie Rita, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994 2001. Rita was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920’s and taken to a mission. Later she lived as a single mother in Brisbane in the 1960’s. This is a story about what it means to be Aboriginal, and a woman, in Australia

Langford, Ruby, Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Penguin, 1988. The story of her early life on a NSW mission, working in Sydney at 15, first child at 17, then living for years in tin huts and bush camps, raising her 9 children and working at fencing, burning off, ring-barking and chopping down trees.

Lennon, Jessie, And I Always Been Moving! The early life of Jessie Lennon, JL/MM, Coober Pedy, SA JB Books, 1996. As a child in the 1920’s and 30’s, Jessie talks of travelling across vast areas of outback South Australia She describes the experiences of her parents working on stations and her own early years of married life.

Tregenza, El., Boundary Lines: Charlie McAdam and family as told to Elizabeth Tregenza, McPhee Gribble Publishers, Ringwood, Vic., NAL Books, 1995. Tells of his experiences of being forcibly taken from his mother as a child and how she overcame the exploitation and abuse that followed. This book recounts the lives of the McAdams’, including an uncle murdered in a 1930’s massacre, and his sons, the AFL footballers, Greg, Gilbert and Adrian.

McDonald, Connie, Ningulla When You Grow Up, Magabala Books, 1996. Connie’s experiences of growing up on a mission in Western Australia and working to establish a career as a teacher. She talks of confronting racism and suffering, and searching for family and identity.

Nannup, Alice, When the Pelican Laughed, Fremantle Arts Centre Press Narkaling Inc., 1999. Alice courageously tells, with great humour and insight, exactly what it was like growing up as a black woman in Australia Born in 1911, she was taken from her family at the age of 12 and forced to work as a domestic servant. She returned home to her country 64 years later.

Pilkington, Doris, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, University of Queensland Press, 1996. Based on the experiences of 3 girls who in 1931 fled from the repressive life of Moore River Mission and followed the rabbit-proof fence for hundreds of miles back to their homelands.

Pring, Adele, Women of the Centre, Pascoe Publishing, (PO Box 42, Apollo Bay Vic 3233), 1990. Oral histories of 10 South Australian Aboriginal women, who tell stories of walking through atomic bomb test sites, being taken from their mothers, traditional life and punishments, playing cricket for Australia, fighting for the right to work as nurses and the impact of European invasion.

Aboriginal voices: activities and resources for English, DECS, 2000. Contains an extensive list of life stories of Aboriginal people and lots of other annotated resource lists too in other chapters (e.g. poetry, plays, films, fiction, media). Sent to all DECS schools a few years ago, also available from Curriculum Corporation www.curriculum.edu.au

Sykes, Roberta, Murawina: Australian Women of High Achievement, Smith and Taylor, 1996. A collection of very powerful life stories of 34 Aboriginal women from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Gives great insight into how life has been, and is now, for Aboriginal women.

Thompson, Liz, Aboriginal voices: contemporary Aboriginal artists, writers and performers, Simon & Schuster Australia, Brookvale NSW 1990. Interviews, photographs of and examples of work of several Aboriginal people in arts and literature.

Ward, Glenyse, Wandering Girl, Magabala 1987. At an early age, Glenyse was taken from her mother and placed in an orphanage, to later become a worker at a mission. Wandering Girl tells of her experiences at 16, when she was sent from the mission to work as a domestic servant girl for a white family.

Ward, Glenyse, Unna You Fullas, Magabala Books, 1994 as paperback. The story of Glenyse’s days on the mission, the fun and pranks, as well as the longing for family and home. It is also about Aboriginal children looking out for each other as they struggle to conform to the ‘good Christian way’.

Poetry

Aboriginal voices: activities and resources for English, DECS 2000 includes a chapter on poetry including an overview, teaching strategies, poems by several writers and an annotated resource list.

Bellear, Lisa, Dreaming in urban areas, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Q. 1996. Poems about identity, being female, love, living in the city, enjoying life, challenging racism, challenging politicians, feeling happy, melancholy, angry. Refreshing different and challenging.

Brusnahan, Margaret, Raukkan and other poems, Magabala Books, Broome 1992. Urban South Australian Aboriginal mother of many children writing poems about her life, in joy, anger, nostalgia and hope.

Davis, Jack, Black life: poems, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Q. 1992. A wide range of poems about a variety of themes including nature, Aboriginal history and politics.

Davis, Jack, John Pat and other poems, Dent, Melbourne, 1988. Easy to read but powerful poems about a range of themes including deaths in custody to nature and the Dreaming.

Davis, Jack, The first born and other poems, Angas & Robertson, Sydney, 1970 and Jagardoo Methuen, Sydney, 1978. Poems about Aboriginal history, life and politics

Gilbert, Kerry Reed (compiler), Message stick: contemporary Aboriginal writing, Jukkurrpa Books, Institute for Aboriginal Development, Alice Springs 1997. 27 Aboriginal writers (none South Australian), mostly poets. An interesting cross-section of themes and styles.

Gilbert, Kevin, (ed), Inside black Australia, Penguin, Vic. 1988. Anthology of poetry from many Aboriginal writers around Australia, including rural and urban together with biographies.

Koori Mail newspaper and online www.koorimail.com email: admin@koorimail.com PO Box 117, Lismore, 2480, 11 Molesworth Street, Lismore, 2480 Tel: (02) 6622 2666, fax: (02) 6622 2600

Mafi-Williams (ed), Spirit song: a collection of Aboriginal poetry, Omnibus Books, Norwood, 1993. Poems about ties to land, loss of culture and spiritual beliefs; several South Australian writers.

Roach, Archie, You have the power, Angus & Robertson, Pymble NSW 1994. The lyrics of some of the many songs written and sung by Aboriginal singer Archie Roach including Charcoal lane about Archie's drinking years; Munjana about James Savage; Took the children away about his own life; and Walking into doors which tells men not to be violent to their wives. There are two songs not written by Roach, Down city streets by Ruby Hunter and So young by David Arden. Illustrations by Bronwyn Bancroft. Complements the audio tape of Archie Roach's music Charcoal Lane.

Taylor, Alf, Singer songwriter, Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation, Broome WA 1992. Easy to read, emotional, gentle yet hard hitting poems about nature, love, hope.

Taylor, Alf, Winds, Magabala Books, Broome, WA, 1994. An anthology of poems by Alf Taylor. They are simple to read yet are reflective, personal poems with a combination of sad and happy memories and experience.

Walker, Kath (later known as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, My people, Jacaranda Press, Milton, Q 1970.

Arts

Performing arts

Arrange to see performances during Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Come Out and at other times. Arrange to talk to actors, dancers, writers after their performances.

Books

Aboriginal artists in South Australia, DECS, Adelaide SA 1998. Includes interviews with about 100 Aboriginal artists as well as photographs of them, their work and environments.

Aboriginal art and the Dreaming: teaching about Aboriginal art, craft and design, Department of Education and Children's Services, Adelaide, 1993. Includes strategies for teaching about traditional and contemporary Aboriginal art from different parts of Australia and strategies for students practical art works based on developing symbols to tell stories of importance to the students. Also includes an annotated resource list for other books and videos about Aboriginal visual arts.

Desert Crafts: Anangu Maruku punu, Jennifer Isaacs, Doubleday, NSW 1992. Aboriginal wood craft from the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara lands in Central Australia

Desert Dreamings, D Stokes, Jacaranda Press, Milton, Q 1992. Explains the connections between Aboriginal art and the Dreaming and artwork of central Australia

Dreamings: the art of Aboriginal Australia, Peter Sutton, Viking, Penguin Books, Ringwood Vic 1988. Aboriginal art from Dreaming to present day.

Videos

Aboriginal women artists AFI (Australian Film Institute)

Artists upfront: Frances Rings Frances is a principal dancer with Bangarra Dance Group and is a television presenter.1997 28mins PLAIN

Bedevil (3 short films by Tracey Moffatt) Surreal films of unusual events in Aboriginal memory, including moments of humour. 1993 90mins PLAIN 901 720

Blackfellas Film based on Archie Weller’s novel ‘Day of the dog’, a novel about Aboriginal youth in Western Australia (use with guidance) 1995 98mins TS 15 7 95

Bobtales Animated Dreaming stories from Western Australia 1997 TS

Bran nue dae The story of the making of the first Aboriginal musical, written by Jimmy Chi, telling story of Aboriginal boy's flight from Perth to his homeland at Djaridin in northern WA. Includes extracts from the performance. 1992 59mins TS . V11693

Dreamings: the art of Aboriginal Australia Explanations of traditional Aboriginal art in Central Australia and Arnhem Land. PLAIN 30 mins 1988 PLAIN 903 203

Dreamtime machinetime Interviews with authors Archie Welter and Oodgeroo Noonuccat and artists Banduk Marika and Trevor Nickolls. 1987 52mins PLAIN 702 512

First born: the life and times of Jack Davis Interview with Jack Davis, playwright, actor and poet 1991 TS V26502

Fly, peewee, fly (Sand to Celluloid series) (Issue: Identity) A poignant film by a young Aboriginal filmmaker about a boy, his nanna and a magpie. 1995 10mins TS

Nice coloured girls Three young woman in Kings Cross have a night on the town, exploiting a ‘white’ man in retribution for the past, directed by Aboriginal filmmaker Tracey Moffat use with guidance 1987 16mins AFI $69.00

Night cries A surreal film about an Aboriginal woman and her elderly white mother. 1990 17mins Ronin Films $60

Pilbara Pearl A short film and uplifting outback romance set in the Pilbara of WA by Aboriginal film maker 1998 10mins Australian Film Institute

Radiance: coming home means different things to different people A film by Aboriginal film director, Rachael Perkins, about three Aboriginal women reunited to grieve, laugh, reconcile and celebrate following their mother's funeral. Rated M. 1998 83 mins Ronin Films

Round up A cross-cultural, humorous and moving short film by Aboriginal film maker, Rima Tamou, about country stockmen out of place in the city. 1996 16mins Australian Film Institute

Saturday night, Sunday morning A short film by Aboriginal film maker, Rima Tamou, based on Archie Weller’s short story about a teenage girl being taken hostage, and her dysfunctional relationship with her father. Recommended with guidance.1999 26mins PLAIN 12 11 99

Sylvia Blanco (Six Australians series) Documentary about Sylvia, a dancer and dance teacher. 1985 25mins TS PLAIN 607 614

The quest of Jimmy Pike Jimmy was born in the WA desert, worked on stations, learnt art skills in prison and became well known as an artist before moving back to the desert, where he lives and paints, inspired by his land and his Dreaming. 1989 51mins PLAIN TS 704 525

Urban Aboriginal artists AFI (Australian Film Institute)

Wind A short film by Aboriginal film maker, Ivan Sen, set in 1857, about Jess, a young 'black tracker, and his elderly sergeant, in a remote area, who encounter an old Aboriginal man accused of murder. 1999 33mins PLAIN 12-11-99

Women of Utopia Batik art on silk or cotton is the style of Aboriginal women at Utopia Station in Central Australia PLAIN

Issues

Journals

Koori Mail newspaper and online www.koorimail.com email: admin@koorimail.com PO Box 117, Lismore, 2480, 11 Molesworth Street, Lismore, 2480 Tel: (02) 66 222 666, fax: (02) 66 222 600

Books

A brief history of the laws, policies and practices in South Australia which led to the removal of many Aboriginal children: We took the children: a contribution to Reconciliation, Andrew Hill, Family and Community Services, SA 1997.

A talent for tourism: stories about Indigenous people in tourism, Commonwealth Department of Tourism, Canberra 1994.

Bringing them home: a guide to the findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS, Canberra 1996.

Countering racism: Using a critical approach in teaching and learning contexts to explore portrayals of Aboriginality, Department of Education, Training and Employment, 2001.

Face the facts: some questions and answers about Immigration, refugees and Indigenous affairs, Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner 1997, or contact Equal Opportunity Commission, 30 Wakefield Street, Adelaide SA. tel: 1800 188 163, tel: 8226 5660.

Outback Ghettos: a history of Aboriginal institutionalisation and survival, Peggy Brock, Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Vic.

Racism and Reconciliation: Racial vilification laws; Mabo; Reconciliation process, Ed Kaye Healey, The Spinney Press, 1994.

Racism no way: a guide for Australian schools, www.racismnoway.com.au website and book, CESCEO (Conference of Education Systems Chief Executive Officers, NSW Department of Education, 2001.

The stolen generation: their stories: Including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, ed Carmel Bird, Ramdom House, Milsons Point NSW 1998.

Towards Reconciliation: activities for Reconciliation Week, Department of Education, Employment and Training (sent to all schools in 1999).

Videos

A little life (Issue: deaths in custody) A documentary about the life of 19 year old Ricci Vicenti, who was on remand for stealing $75 worth of groceries and was shot dead by guards as he attempted to escape custody. His story is told in a positive way through his mother and foster mother,1987. 48mins PLAIN 710 820

Aboriginal Studies: 6. Family And Kin (Issue: stolen generation) Aboriginal extended kinship systems & family ties have survived although often in a modified form through two centuries of dispossession, discrimination, urbanization, and traumatisation due to the removal of children from their families. An Open Learning program. 27mins 1991 TS

Australian rules (Issue: racism) based on the book Deadly Unna, use with guidance from Aboriginal Education Unit teaching notes, tel: 8343 6528

Behind The News - The Stolen Generation (Issue: stolen generation) Aboriginal children taken away from their parents, 25 mins 1995 TS

Best kept secret (Issue: stolen generation) Archie Roach's life story told through reenactment and song, 1992 30 mins TS

Black magic (Issue: racism and sport) Social and political history through lives and experiences of Aboriginal footballers in WA. 1988 55mins PLAIN 718 617

Black river (Issue: deaths in custody) stars the Aboriginal opera singer Maroochy Barambah in a tragic opera with the theme of Aboriginal deaths in custody. It is extremely intense and features some excellent special effects and dance. 1994 63mins TS

Blood Brothers: From little things, big things grow, (Issue: land rights, identity) About Kev Carmody, Aboriginal singer/songwriter and includes a song about Vincent Lingiari and land rights 1993 52mins TS

Bringing Them Home (Issue: stolen generation)The investigation into the stories of the Aboriginal 'stolen generations'. The abuse suffered by many children in institutions and foster homes 29 mins 1997 TS

Compass: Stolen Children (Issue: stolen generation) Compass examines the role of Churches and Missions in separating Aboriginal children from their families 30 mins, 2000 TS

Coolbaroo Club (Issue: racist legislation) The story of a social club, established in Perth in the 1950s and possibly the only place of its kind in Australia, where Aboriginal adults could meet to dance, sing and have supper, away from stares and restrictions of the wider society. Re-enactments of evenings at the club and interviews, discussion of the permit system and exemption certificates applicable at time. 1997 54mins TS

Emu possum we want them back (Issue: environmental sustainability) Shows how Pitjantjatjara people and scientists are working together to monitor endangered species. 1997 30mins TS

Four Corners - Payback (Issue: customary law) Looks at how the white criminal justice system seeks to involve aboriginal tribal law in the punishment of serious crime. Payback is the spearing through the thigh by family members after murder has been committed. 45 mins 1994 TS

Four Corners - Sick At Heart (Issue: Aboriginal Health, Housing) In the week the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody releases its report, Four Corners looks at the tragic circumstances outside jail that result in premature death. Aboriginal health is a national disgrace and Australia stands condemned 49 mins1991 TS

Inside Story: The Fair Go - Winning The 1967 Referendum (Issue: racist legislation) Politics and law, 1999. 56 mins TS V655

Inside story: the human race (Issue: Reconciliation) A 500km walking race in Western Australia between an Aboriginal man in his 70s, a German man in his 50s, and an American athlete in his 30s.1997, 57 mins TS

My spirit is black (Issue: identity) A fair skinned, urban, Aboriginal, young man, his life, identity and work with the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre in Sydney.1991 20mins TS V22

Rabbit proof fence (Issue: stolen generation) Two girls taken from their family, escape the children's home and walk 1200km back home, dodging the Aboriginal tracker and police.

Sacred sites (Issue: sacred sites, land rights) Explores effects of Aboriginal laws relating to sacred sites and includes information about offshore sites, 30 mins 1985, PLAIN 721 109

Stolen Generations (Issue: stolen generation) Indigenous filmmaker, Darlene Johnson draws on personal stories to describe the experience of Australia's Stolen Generations. Historians Henry Reynolds and Marcia Langton discuss claims about forcibly removal of indigenous children 55 mins 2000 TS

True stories: Who killed Malcolm Smith? (Issue: deaths in custody) Malcolm has spent his life, since childhood, in and out of institutions. 1992, 51mins TS

Tudawali (Issue: cross cultural exploitation/misunderstanding) Ernie Dingo stars in this film based on the lives of the Aboriginal actors who starred in the feature film Jedda. 1987, 50mins PLAIN 710 822

Two bob mermaid (Sand to Celluloid series) (Issue: racism) A short film written and directed by Darlene Johnson, set in 1957 in a country town. A young Aboriginal girl must choose between the swimming championships and sticking up for her darker skinned relatives, who are not allowed at the pool. 1996, 15mins TS

Yolngu boy (Issue: identity) Three youths in Arnhem Land are living in two cultures. This film explores how they deal with this.

Prepared by Adele Pring, DECS. Copyright SACE Board of South Australia