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This chapter explores cross-cultural collaboration in media production. Because of the growing number of talented and successful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program makers, First Peoples voices are more present in the media than ever before, but there is still a need for collaboration between First Peoples and non-Indigenous people when producing media. Journalists, producers, writers and students are encouraged to tell Indigenous stories because media can be a powerful tool for social change. The media is also responsible for much of the negative and stereotypical portrayal of First Peoples and culture that perpetuates community racism, and that needs to change. The case study in this chapter is a television program called Noongar Dandjoo. For over 10 years, the program has been a collaborative production with university students, Nyoongar community and the Curtin Centre for Aboriginal studies. It uses action research as a framework to guide students as they work with the community in bringing a Nyoongar media voice to a national public sphere.
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Multi-cam is a term used to describe a production technique which employs three or more cameras simultaneously to record or broadcast a program. It is predominantly a television studio production technique that allows for the live cutting of action.
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In 2007 the Australian federal government, under the leadership of Prime Minister John Howard, introduced new legislation that made changes to law enforcement and welfare provision in the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory National Emergency Response, also known as ‘The Intervention’, was in response to reports of child sexual abuse and the publication of a report called Little Children are Sacred (Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse 2007).
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