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First Australians

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Produced over six years and premiering in 2008, this series traces two centuries of Australian history from the perspective of the continent's Indigenous peoples. Episodes move from the first contact between the Eora people and the British at Sydney Cove in 1788 through the frontier wars in Tasmania, the fight for land and survival in Western Australia, and the twentieth-century campaigns for civil rights that led to the 1967 referendum. Interviews with Aboriginal elders and historians sit alongside colonial records, paintings, and photographs, reconstructing events largely absent from earlier Australian history, including massacres, forced removals, and the destruction of language groups. Figures like Bennelong, who was taken by Governor Arthur Phillip to bridge the two societies, and later Indigenous leaders who organized against dispossession, anchor the narrative in individual lives rather than abstraction. The series was built alongside a companion book and a website of over 200 additional mini-documentaries, and it treats colonization as a continuing story rather than a closed chapter.