Aboriginal Way

The new CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) says the organisation will maintain its strong commitment to Aboriginal screen makers as the organisation's current Aboriginal Screen Strategy expires. We speak to Kate Croser and Associate Executive Production Development Attraction and Studios at SAFC, Nara Wilson about opportunities for Indigenous screen makers right across Central Australia

On the show today, join us at the launch of Tarnanthi 2019, the national festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art which has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. We had a chat with artists Robert Fielding, about why an old beat up car became his canvas and with Ryan Presley who has created a "Blood Money Exchange"

Community centre Kura Yerlo is a leading not for profit Aboriginal owned and controlled community organisation. It was located at Largs Bay for 30 years but has recently moved to a new home in Seaton. They have a new space and a new energy, and share with us some of the great things that are happening at Kura Yerlo right now.

Commissioner for Aboriginal Engagement Roger Thomas is leading a State-wide consultation to seek the views of Aboriginal South Australians on ways to improve the working relationship between State Government and Aboriginal nations.

In the 1930s Anthropologist Charles Mountford documented Adnyamathanha people with a series of now iconic photographs held by the South Australian Museum. Eighty years on an Adnyamathanha researcher has taken the photos back to her Adnyamathanha community to uncover personal and complex stories of family, culture and country.

Rebecca Richards is an Adnyamathanha Barngarla woman, an early career researcher at the South Australian museum and a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.

With Aboriginal children significantly overrepresented in care across the nation and in South Australia, the SA Department of Child Protection is undergoing a re-orientation of the way it works with Aboriginal families. It has recently released three policy statements - a Reconciliation Action Plan, Aboriginal Employment Policy and a departmental Aboriginal Action Plan. Significantly the Aboriginal Action Plan adopts the Aboriginal Child Placement Principles, which have been championed by community groups in recent years.

With the launch of the reports, Lucy Kingston spoke to two key Aboriginal staff at the Department of Child Protection - Lenore Bagnara, a Narungga Kaurna woman who is Aboriginal Employment Consultant and Tracy Rigney a Narungga Njarrindjeri woman, who is Director of Aboriginal Practice at the Department.

Today we hear from some artists who are showing their work at the Our Mob exhibition of works by over 80 South Australian First Nations artists. Greg Burgoyne, Linda Bromley and Don Dunstan Emerging Artist Award recipient Sonya Rankine speak to Lucy Kingston about their art practice and how it relates to their personal stories, culture and identity.

On the show today we speak to Shona Read, Executive Director of Reconciliation South Australia, about her time at this year's amazing Garma festival up in East Arnhem Land, as well as the plans Reconciliation SA has for the next few years.

On Aboriginal Way radio this week, we hear about a huge exhbition of art by First Nations South Australian artists that's opening in Adelaide soon - Our Mob. We speak to thriving contemporary artist, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara woman Elizabeth Close for her perspective on the giant annual art show. She first got involved with Our Mob very early in her career and has an exciting new work on show this year.

60% of the state of South Australia now has native title resolved, with remaining claims progressing rapidly through the Federal Court.

With most native title claims in the state likely to be resolved within the next few years, the CEO of SA Native Title Services Keith Thomas discusses how native title supports traditional owners to advance their own goals for their community and country.