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1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 min. 21 sec.) ; 152397193 bytes |
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LEARNING THE RULESAussie Rules football is like religion in some Aboriginal communities. And in Melbourne, Aboriginal youth are getting a chance to chase their dreams. An Aboriginal community youth club, together with the North Melbourne Football Club, have developed an Indigenous Academy. Football might be the means, but the end is not just about sport. "Footy is just the vehicle that drives pretty much the main thing that we want to get across which is healthy living, healthy food, healthy choice", North Melbourne player Daniel Wells tells Living Black. SADDLE UPIndigenous stockmen once showcased their horsemanship on cattle stations around the country. But over the last 50 years, the number of Indigenous station workers has fallen. A unique West Australian training program is helping to change that by showing a new generation of Aboriginal men what it takes to be stockmen. "Although their forebears would have been station hands and been mustering, a lot of them are coming from towns so they've got no experience whatsoever...some of them are bit hesitant and not sure but they pick up the skills very quickly", says their trainer, Boyd Holden. Video journalist Jeannette Francis visited these future stockmen as they learned the good, the bad and the ugly about station life.CAUTIONARY TALESThe rate of injecting drug use is on the rise in the Indigenous community, and it's got experts worried. While they don't know what's behind the increase, what they do know is that sharing needles is the most efficient way of spreading HIV. To date, rates of HIV infection amongst Indigenous people have been the same as non-Indigenous people. But this could change. "We're all very concerned that we may well start having...more Aboriginal people becoming infected proportionately than in the non-Indigenous community", Don Baxter from the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations tells Living Black. Video journalist Kris Flanders reports on the impact of the virus |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-09-05 at 16:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Services for.
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Care of sick animals.
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Cattle trade -- Management.
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Cowboys -- Study and teaching.
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian.
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Western Australia -- Kimberley.
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Streaming video
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Flanders, Kris, reporter
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Francis, Jeannette, reporter
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Grant, Karla, host
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