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- In the Aboriginal community of Mt Liebig, about 300km west of Alice Springs, a group of young women talk about the importance of bush food in their culture and its relationship to good health. In contrast, they associate sickness with "takeaway shop food" and describe Alice Springs as a "takeaway town: takeaway food, takeaway grog and takeaway sickness". The women visit the nearby Irantji waterhole with a group of children to teach them how to find and prepare bush foods - bush bananas, bush berries, witchetty grubs, wild honey, and kangaroo. The foods are not only more healthy but are also integrally linked to their own culture and quality of life. Through their personal experiences, the women of Mt Liebig provide insight into the gentle ebb and flow of their community life and the effect that outside influences have on their existence.
- This poignant documentary presents an ordinary day in the life of Ricco Japaljarri Martin, an 8-year-old boy who lives with his foster mom in a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs. Cole's observational approach allows Ricco to narrate his own story, offering a rare glimpse into his perspective that captures his charm, boisterous spirit and fierce intelligence.
- Ernie Dingo traces the importance of languages to Indigenous culture in Australia. There are around 250 Aboriginal languages with 600 dialects spoken in Australia. But it's thought only thirty of those languages are spoken each day, while over one hundred are critically endangered.
- This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
- A cinematic journey into the stories and landscape of the Daly River Region. The viewer is given a vision of the power and beauty the Monsoons bring to the country. The people are one with country and are also aware of the dangers that lurk. Wungung, a young boy out hunting with his grandparents does not listen to their advice, his fate is sealed when he disturbs a little grey spirit. Part of the Nganampa Anwernekehne Series
- Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging through dance and song and all of their artistic expressions. On a trip into the bush around Cockatoo Lagoon near Kununurra, they explain the stories of their Dreaming and of their land, and talk of their own experiences growing up as workers on stations in the area. Each artist talks about why they paint - to teach and to share stories about their country with others in the community and wider afield. The film also observes them working on paintings, each giving her personal interpretation of a loved environment and a living culture. The paintings are all very different in style but all express a life-affirming sense of identity intimately linked to their own country.
- We meet Warumungu elder Leslie Foster, senior Traditional Owner of country around this famous phenomenon south of Tennant Creek in Central Australia. Leslie shares the dreaming stories of the Marbles' creation, speaks of his 28-year struggle to regain rights over this land, and celebrates recent transfer of title over the Devils Marbles to Traditional Owners for shared management with National Parks.
- 'Living Country' observes the campaign by Aboriginal people of central Australia to protect their land and lives from two proposed sites for uranium dump sites. For these people, their land sustains life: the land feeds and heals. Traditional bush tucker has fed generations, the bush supplies medicines, and these traditional homelands hold sacred sites and are the focus of ceremonial rites and dreaming stories. Steve McCormack and his family live 4km from one of the proposed sites on the Tanami Highway, 25km north-west of Alice Springs. They worry about the effect of the toxic waste on their water supply and bush tucker, as well as their own health. At Engawala homestead, 125km north-east of Alice Springs, and 12km from another proposed site, traditional owners Herbie Bloom and Kenny Tilmouth talk about their reliance on bush food. They stress the urgency for everyone to speak up and protest.
- Docu/Drama program deals with HIV/AIDS in the Aboriginal community throughout Central Australia's vast outback.