<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001AC5" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The landmark documentary series First Australians tells a very different story of our nation. By Sacha Molitorisz.</span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">''BEFORE the Dreaming, the Australian continent was a flat, featureless place, devoid of life," says a woman's ethereal voice, over shots of red desert and rugged coastline. "Then giant beings came down from the sky, came from across the sea and emerged from within the Earth. With their arrival the Dreaming began and life was born... (and) in everything they touched they left their essence, making the lands sacred to those who honour the Dreaming - the first Australians."</span></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">So begins one of the most significant documentary series in the history of Australian television. For the first time, the story of Aboriginal Australia has been condensed into a coherent narrative that begins with the mythological birth of humanity on this continent - the Dreaming that historian Inga Clendinnen calls "that web of stories which holds this great recalcitrant continent within the net of human intelligence" - and ends in the aftermath of Eddie Mabo's landmark native title victory. In seven episodes, it's a series that explores, in the words of award-winning filmmaker Rachel Perkins, what happens when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world's greatest empire....</span></font></font></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001AC5" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#001ac5" style="font: 18.0px Arial; color: #001ac5"><u><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/the-story-of-black-australia/2008/10/08/1223145363254.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/the-story-of-black-australia/2008/10/08/1223145363254.html</a></u></font></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Eugenie Collyer</div><div>Town Linguist</div><div>Diwurruwurru-Jaru Aboriginal Corporation</div><div>(Katherine Regional Aboriginal Language Centre)</div><div>PO Box 871, Katherine 0851</div><div>Ph: (08) 89711233</div><div>Fax: (08) 8971 0561</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>