Videos Search Videos HomeSearch All VideosTopicsSocial Justice VideosLand Injustice videosEducation videosYoorrook for JusticeElder’s Truths VideosNews and StoriesSearch Taungurung artist Uncle Mick Harding Taungurung artist Uncle Mick Harding, director of Ngarga Warendj, talks about the meaning message sticks hold.Jun 23, 2025CultureCultural HeritageLanguageAccountability around the harms caused by the so-called ‘Half-Caste Act’, passed in Victoria in 1886 Gunai, Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung man Alister Thorpe calls for accountability around the harms caused by the so-called ‘Half-Caste Act’, passed in Victoria in 1886.Jun 23, 2025DispossessionAunty Eva-Jo Edwards shares her painful and disconnected experience of being taken into institutions growing up Boon Wurrung/Bunurong, Yorta Yorta, Mutti Mutti woman Aunty Eva-Jo Edwards shares her painful and disconnected experience of being taken into institutions growing up.Jun 23, 2025Child protection systemAunty Muriel Bamblett speaks on the lack of government accountability surrounding massacres and child removals. Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung, Boon Wurrung Elder Aunty Muriel Bamblett speaks on the lack of government accountability surrounding massacres and child removals. She asks why nothing is being done.Jun 23, 2025Child protection systemMassacresGomeroi woman Dr Nikki Moodie shares the importance of Country “All First Nations around the world are purposeful peoples. Teaching the next generation how to care for Country by caring for the stories and the languages that come from land is our purpose. Our purpose is to care for the land and our right to do so has been denied.”Jun 13, 2025Land InjusticeEbony Phillips on the need for systemic change that continues to impact First Peoples families today “Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody has risen.”Jun 13, 2025Child protection systemJarvis Atkinson shares how the lack of support and exclusion in school impacted his life “It really stood out to me how other children, how they were treated compares to how I seen my cousins get treated and how I was treated.”Jun 13, 2025EducationRueben Berg, Gunditjmara, shares the deep connection to the environment and to the land shown by his ancestors and passed down to First Peoples through the generations “Our ancestors worked out you don’t need the whole tree. If you wanted a canoe one choice is you could go and chop down a tree and you could make a canoe, but then there is no more tree left.”Jun 13, 2025CultureNerita Waight shares the strength of First Peoples and ongoing connection to culture, community and Country “Terrible things have been done to us throughout the last 230 years of colonisation”Jun 13, 2025Land InjusticePaul Paton, Monero Ngorigo and Gunai, shares how Country includes family, culture, language, customs and spiritual beliefs “Land is us and we are land. Land is central to what we call Country. Country is part of us and we are part of it…”Jun 13, 2025CultureGunditjmara and Yorta Yorta woman Keicha Day talks about the connection between historical truth and liberation “Having all the facts means not making the same mistakes again. When we say self-determination, I just think of the end goal, which is black joy, but never forgetting how far we’ve come…”Jun 3, 2025HistoryTruth-tellingWollithiga Elder Uncle Henry Atkinson recalls his experiences of racism and discrimination at school “We weren’t allowed to have playtime at the same time as the other kids. We weren’t really encouraged to be good at school…”Jun 2, 2025Education
