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Happy NAIDOC week!
Jul. 8th, 2019 09:33 pm (Okay, I am a bit late. NAIDOC starts on 7th and runs to the 14th)
As Reconciliation week is about acknowledging Australia's past and forging understanding between Australia's first peoples and everyone else, NAIDOC week is about celebrating achievements! Culminating in the NAIDOC awards which bestow recognition (and a dinner plate sized award) on leaders and achievers. These are the winners from this year (and previous years) (and check out the size of the award!):
www.naidoc.org.au/awards/winner-profiles
Now, I don't want to be a downer on this intro to NAIDOC week post, but I am severely ticked off about something.
So on the 1st of the month a new channel was launched, SBS World Movies. It wasn't in the paper TV guide. Normally I use an electronic guide but the TV I have to use at the moment doesn't have that feature working. Anyway, I figure the new channel will be in the new guide for this week. Nope.
My normal internet guide also didn't have it. Then I realised that NITV, the national Aboriginal, Torres Strait, Maori and other first nations people focused channel wasn't on any of these guides either! So shameful.
I like watching NITV but it is a case of 90% of the time there is something interesting on, so I don't normally feel the need for a guide (and my TV at home has an inbuilt guide for it anyway) BUT for NAIDOC they have movies I want to see. So that means I need to know the schedule. BUT NO EASILY ACCESSIBLE GUIDE HAS NITV!!!!!!!!!! I had to dig into the bowels of the SBS website to find a guide for NITV.
Shame on all the guides who don't include NITV (or World Movies)!!! It just highlights how racist you are.
As Reconciliation week is about acknowledging Australia's past and forging understanding between Australia's first peoples and everyone else, NAIDOC week is about celebrating achievements! Culminating in the NAIDOC awards which bestow recognition (and a dinner plate sized award) on leaders and achievers. These are the winners from this year (and previous years) (and check out the size of the award!):
www.naidoc.org.au/awards/winner-profiles
Now, I don't want to be a downer on this intro to NAIDOC week post, but I am severely ticked off about something.
So on the 1st of the month a new channel was launched, SBS World Movies. It wasn't in the paper TV guide. Normally I use an electronic guide but the TV I have to use at the moment doesn't have that feature working. Anyway, I figure the new channel will be in the new guide for this week. Nope.
My normal internet guide also didn't have it. Then I realised that NITV, the national Aboriginal, Torres Strait, Maori and other first nations people focused channel wasn't on any of these guides either! So shameful.
I like watching NITV but it is a case of 90% of the time there is something interesting on, so I don't normally feel the need for a guide (and my TV at home has an inbuilt guide for it anyway) BUT for NAIDOC they have movies I want to see. So that means I need to know the schedule. BUT NO EASILY ACCESSIBLE GUIDE HAS NITV!!!!!!!!!! I had to dig into the bowels of the SBS website to find a guide for NITV.
Shame on all the guides who don't include NITV (or World Movies)!!! It just highlights how racist you are.
