Message Stick

Message Stick - Remember Finnis

This episode follows two people's journey back to a part of their past. Arabunna elders, Laurie Stuart and Ken Buzzacott, revisit Finnis Springs station, 30kms west of Lake Eyre (Bundoo Bunta) south...

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Message Stick - Spoken Word

Four Poets take part in an intimate recital sharing their works and experiences as Indigenous People. Traditionally Indigenous people are story tellers; it's their way of passing on History and Cultu...

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Message Stick - Something to Celebrate

Presenter, Miriam Corowa hosts Message Stick's 10th birthday celebrations, in a show featuring some of the most memorable moments and inspirational characters from the past ten years. In keeping with...

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Message Stick - Boxing for Palm Island

Palm Island, 65 kilometres from Townsville, has a bad history with kids. Most have entered a cycle of dysfunction, drugs, alcohol and violence by the age of 15. Governments have attempted to break the...

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Message Stick - Uncle Max

"The more I give… the more I keep" is the philosophy of Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, a Yuin elder from Narooma on the South East Coast of Australia. People come to his workshops from around the wo...

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Message Stick - Tombstone Opening

People deal with grief in different ways and in Torres Strait Island culture, a tombstone opening and unveiling symbolises the point where sorrow meets happiness. In this program, reporter Nancia Guiv...

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Message Stick - Saibai Island Home

Saibai Island in the Torres Strait is so far north it's only four kilometres from Papua New Guinea. Message Stick follows a group of students from NAISDA Dance College, near Sydney, as they travel to...

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Message Stick - Professor, The

Professor Marcia Langton has had a much publicised career. She is known for her work in several academic fields and as an advocate for indigenous rights, social justice, and Indigenous artistic expres...

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Message Stick - Meeting Ms Right

Meeting Ms Right is a whirlwind day-in-the-life expose of Dr Anita Heiss. She's fabulous, she's glamorous and she knows how to match her wit and intellect with her designer shoes. When she's not too b...

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Message Stick - Many Tongues, One Voice

In the first years of settlement in Australia there were more than 250 recorded Indigenous languages. In just 220 years that figure has dropped dramatically and only nine languages are considered safe...

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