The key messages are: there is some evidence that governments demonstrate ability and willingness to partner in shared decision-making but change is not occurring; accountability is limited; progress is falling short of envisaged expectations.

The original 1990 Satellite Dreaming TV program traced Indigenous media work in Australia to that point and this website takes the story further. Has essays, a timeline and references to media milestones and important works, such as the movies Samson and Delilah (2009) and Sweet Country (2017), and the TV series Redfern Now (2013).

Compiled by Belinda Mason and Dieter Knierim from Blur Projects, this is a photographic exhibition (with accompanying personal stories) depicting dozens of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have served in the Australian Defence Force. The photographs are beautiful, the stories often revealing, but the very occasional references (we found about five from more than 200 people) to First Nations warriors defending Country but not serving in the ADF (that is, references to the Frontier Wars) are guarded and wary. They are, of course, entitled to be that way if that is the feeling of the people speaking. The website has an introduction from Governor-General David Hurley, who notes that 'Australia’s First Nations peoples have a long tradition of serving in the Australian Defence Force'. The Department of Veterans' Affairs is one of eight Supporters of the exhibition.

After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Allison Cadzow, and others reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.

Covers First Nations battles in the first decade or so of the Sydney settlement, around Bathurst, at Pinjarra, WA, and at Battle Mountain, Queensland, as well as Vinegar Hill (convict uprising, 1804) and the Eureka Stockade (1854), their inclusion explained by the sub-title of the book in some printings: 'the black resistance to invasion and the white struggle against colonial oppression'. 'Generations of Australians have been taught that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil. Yet as many as 20,000 black Australians died fighting a war of resistance that lasted for more than a century. Six Australian Battlefields presents an alternative view of history. Through detailed accounts of four great clashes, it confronts the reader with the realities of life on the Australian frontier. And through a retelling of the stories of Vinegar Hill and Eureka it reminds the reader of the central place of resistance in our past.'

Long-running ABC program with First Nations themes, presented by Defending Country Supporter, Professor Larissa Behrendt AO, UTS.