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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aboriginality is a key issue facing all Australians but it is an exceedingly complex one and potentially divisive. The focus on Aboriginal identity in this program aims to stimulate deeper understanding of Aboriginality, the attitudes of non-Indigenous Australians towards Indigenous people, racism in Australia (both individual and institutional) and the changes needed in attitude and action to achieve justice. To weave these issues into a coherent...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Following World War Two, one of the largest mass migrations in history took place. More than five million people came to Australia, transforming it into the most multicultural country on earth. However, this was never meant to be. For much of the 20th century, successive Australian governments pursued a policy of deporting and barring entry to any race of people they considered undesirable. This was known as the White Australia policy. Admission Impossible...
4) Plagued
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Conceived, written and narrated by award-winning broadcaster Dr Norman Swan, this four-part series investigates the relationship between history, destiny and disease. Every era has its new diseases. AIDS is not the first and it won't be the last. Our history and our destiny are shaped by our diseases. Filmed in the UK and Europe, Australia, the USA and Asia, the series looks at the origins of disease, epidemics, the interaction between our immune...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This season, the women of Melbourne Phoenix Netball Club will again put their personal lives and other careers on hold and train to exhaustion at least six times a week for the love of their sport and a shot at glory. These players are the best in the world yet, in an era of multimillion dollar sporting competitions, the clubs in the National Netball League operate on shoestring budgets and are run largely by volunteers. Despite fielding one of the...
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