Limit search to available items
Streaming video

Title Media nomads / written and directed by Donna Ives ; produced by Rod Freedman
Published Acton, Australian Capital Territory : National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 2002

Copies

Description 1 online resource (26 min.)
Series Australasian video online
Everyday brave
Summary Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this content may contain images or names of people who have since passed away. Bill and Mick Thaiday are father figures in indigenous broadcasting. They've travelled about like a couple of nomads for almost two decades, developing Aboriginal radio stations in remote areas of Australia and sharing their knowledge. Both Bill and Mick have a passionate belief in the importance of Aboriginal culture being reflected in the media, and how this can reinforce the Aboriginal sense of identity and strengthen the process of self-determination. The brothers grew up on Palm Island in the 1950s under the Aboriginal Protection Act, with the sound of curfew bells a part of their daily life. The place was run like a prison but Bill remembers how the radio could take their minds away from the harsh restrictions and injustice of everyday life. After a strike in 1957, the family was moved off the island when their father was branded a troublemaker. Bill worked on the railways for several years in his teens but, as the years passed, the two brothers drifted into alcoholism, sharing bottles of cheap wine in a Townsville park. Then, in early 1980, someone asked a newly sober Bill to go to an indigenous media conference in Alice Springs-- and to bring a friend. Bill picked up Mick from the park and they flew to Alice, not knowing that their lives would change forever. Media Nomads is the story of two brothers who have overcome many obstacles and who, with their families, have made more than a few personal sacrifices to bring an invaluable gift to indigenous communities. They have created their own opportunities and followed their own vision to fulfil a goal. Their aim is to give a voice to Aboriginal people where their parents and grandparents had none
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed November 17, 2014)
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this content may contain images or names of people who have since passed away
In English
Subject Thaiday, Mick
Thaiday, Bill
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
Radio broadcasting.
Radio.
radio (telecommunication system)
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
Radio broadcasting.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Ives, Donna.
Freedman, Rod.
Miller, Lydia.
Film Australia (Organization)
National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)