NITV honours National Reconciliation Week 2017 with special programming line-up
19 May 2017
News Release
NITV will be honouring National Reconciliation Week 2017 with an extensive programming line-up and a broad scope of national on air coverage. This year also marks the 50th year anniversary of the 1967 Referendum on 27 May, and the 25th anniversary of the Mabo decision on 3 June; both significant milestones will be highlighted in NITV's week of specialised programming.
Reconciliation Week is marked annually from 27 May - 3 June and acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. The week initiates an effort to break down the barriers between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, aiming to build positive and respectful relationships.
NITV Channel Manager, Tanya Orman said As we reach milestone anniversaries this year the channel delivers an extra special slate of content that acknowledges the achievements of our reconciliation journey, how far we have come as well as highlight the challenges still ahead of us as a nation.
2017's theme for National Reconciliation Week is Let's take the next steps'.
Leading up to and during Reconciliation Week NITV has curated a selection of programming reflecting on the themes of forgiveness and unity.
News & Current Affairs:
The Point presenter, Natalie Ahmat and NITV News will be in Central Australia from the 22-26 May to bring viewers coverage from the Referendum Council Gathering in Mutitjulu. Coverage will be aired nightly on NITV News Monday - Friday at 7.20pm and The Point at 9pm Monday - Thursday.
On Friday 26 May, The Point Special will include coverage of the closing ceremony and outcomes of the Referendum Council Gathering.
The Point will be live from Townsville on Friday 2 June with a cross to Torres Strait Islands ahead of nationwide Mabo Day celebrations.
Premiering on NITV:
From the Western Frontier - Premiering
Season 3, Episode 1, Monday 22 May 7.30pm
Back for its third season, From the Western Frontier features the work of emerging Indigenous Western Australian writers and directors. This third instalment examines the legacy of the Stolen Generations policies through the eyes of young Aboriginal women.
In this episode, prominent Nyungar artist Sandra Hill helps her granddaughter Meeka find her cultural identity.
Young and Black - Premiering
Wednesday 24 May, 8.30pm
Presenter, Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to four prominent Australians as they unpack the uncomfortable truths of being an Indigenous millennial. Laura asks personal and taboo questions about identity, racism, sex and everything in between.
From talking kissing cousins and stereotypes with comedian Nakkiah Lui, to life as an aspiring Liberal politician, and a sister's struggle to save her brother from the hell of Don Dale.
50 years after the birth of the reconciliation movement, this generation of Indigenous youth were supposed to inherit a very different Australia - but what has changed, and whats still the same?
Carry the Flag - Premiering
Monday 29 May, 8.30pm
Commissioned by NITV this powerful documentary tracks the creation of the Torres Strait flag and the significant story stitched into a few pieces of coloured fabric. The design of Bernard Namok Snr created meaning for a nation of people once invisible to the mainland of Australia.
29th May 2017 is the 25th anniversary of the day that the flag was officially presented to the people of the Torres Strait. It is a father/son story. Bernard is our guide, pride mixes with sadness at the loss of his father but the rise of the Torres Strait Island flag.
Special Program Highlights:
Case 442
Sunday 21 May, 7.30pm
Frank Byrne was forcibly removed from his mother Maudie at the age of five, after 60 years, Frank finally found her amongst the patient case records of Perth's Claremont Mental institute where she was incarcerated and eventually buried in a pauper's grave.
Case 442 intimately follows Frank's painful struggle and the final laying to rest of his mother. An emotionally moving story highlighting an unbreakable mother-son bond and why government removal policies have left so many Australians like Frank with a scarred and fragmented identity.
Message from Mungo
Sunday 21 May, 8.30pm
Lake Mungo is an ancient Pleistocene lake-bed in south-western New South Wales, and is one of the world's richest archaeological sites. Message from Mungo focuses on the interface over the last 40 years between the scientists and the Indigenous communities who identify with the land and with the human remains revealed at the site. This interface has often been deeply troubled and contentious, but within the conflict and its gradual resolution lies a moving story of the progressive empowerment of the traditional custodians of the area.
The film tells a new story that has not been represented in print or film before, told entirely by actual participants from both the science and Indigenous perspectives. It was made over an eight year period and included extensive consultation with members of the Indigenous communities at Mungo.
Lousy Little Sixpence
Monday 22 May, 8.00pm
A 1983 Australian documentary which details the early years of the Stolen Generations and the struggle of Indigenous Australians against the Aboriginal Protection Board in the 1930s.
In Australia in 1909, in the state of New South Wales, the Aboriginal Protection Board planned to break up Aboriginal communities by forcibly removing their children and hiring them out as servants to white employers.
In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight, the Aboriginal Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, this documentary weaves a moving accou
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NITV honours National Reconciliation Week 2017 with special programming line-up
