National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
The theme of NRW 2019 is Grounded in Truth, Walk Together with Courage.
This year the focus is on truth telling and what role it can play in reconciliation.
Source: NRW 2019
Indigenous Australians remain hopeful of support for a voice to parliament, despite the Coalition’s federal election win.
Urged to 'chin up', Indigenous Australians say they will continue to push for a referendum on establishing a voice to parliament - something a Labor government had promised to deliver.
NITV Reconciliation Week SBS TV programming:
Sun 26 May
7.30pm Going Places with Ernie Dingo
8.30pm After the Apology
Mon 27 May
7.30pm Fair Game
8.30pm First Australians
Wed 29 May
7.30pm Vote Yes
8.30pm The Point
Sat 1 June
6.30pm Art and Soul
8.30pm Beneath Clouds
NITV - Social activation
Reconciliation Film Club - Last year Reconciliation Australia, NITV and SBS proudly partnered to launch the Reconciliation Film Club: an online platform that supports organisations to host screenings of a curated selection of Indigenous documentaries from Australia’s leading Indigenous film makers.
Recommended viewing
Films, documentaries and TV programs focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures:
Vote Yes (2014) Director: Nick Waterman
Genre: Short, Drama
Duration: 13 minutes
It's May 27,1967 - Australia's referendum on Aboriginal rights. Two women unite as a family come to terms with the prospect of change.
How to access: Vote Yes can be access via Nick Waterman’s website.
The Fair Go: Winning the 1967 Referendum (1999)
Director: Pat Laughren
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 57 minutes
In Australia in 1967 members of the oldest civilisation in the world were not counted as citizens in their own land, but the times were a changin’. The Fair Go is a story of the ten-year campaign to change the Australian constitution so that Indigenous people were counted in the census and the Commonwealth – not state – had the power to make laws. Narrated by Deborah Mailman.
How to access: The Fair Go: Winning the 1967 Referendum can be accessed via contacting Screen Australia.
Mabo (2012)
Director: Rachel Perkins
Genre: Biography, Drama
Duration: 103 minutes
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia’s national heroes – Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander man who spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
How to access: Purchase Mabo on DVD via the ABC Shop.
