'Us old people today should be ashamed of ourselves. I'm sorry, my great, great grandchildren: the way things are going I don't think we'll have very much to offer you. I apologise for that.' We caught up with Uncle Bob in May 2009 and took the opportunity to ask him 3 questions: 1. Have you seen any improvements since the Australian Government's Apology (to the Stolen Generations)? 2. What do yo do to maintain your culture; and how can people become part of indigenous culture? 3. In light of the current crises we face - environmental, financial etc - how do you see us progressing into the future? 4. (bonus question): what role can the media play in helping the situation? Filmed by Sheryl and Felipe of PluginTV with TheJuiceMedia. The video is split into two parts for YouTube. About Uncle Bob: [from the Kanyini Website: http://www.kanyini.com/subject.html]: Bob Randall was born in 1934 at Middleton Pond on Tempe Station in the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. He is a member of the Yankunytjatjara people and one of the listed traditional owners of Uluru. His mother, Tanguawa worked as a housemaid at Angus Downs cattle station for Bob's father, station owner, Bill Liddle. At a young age, Bob was taken away from his mother under government policy, whom he never saw again. Bob: 'I was institutionalised because I didn't wear clothes or live in a house. In that natural way of living, there was no need for me to have anything other than what I had.' Bob was sent to the Bungalow Telegraph Station in Alice Springs, which was the receiving home for Indigenous children from Central Australia. Bob: 'They gave me clothes to wear and put me in a house - I didn't like it.' As a young child, Bob was moved north to the Croker Island Reservation in Arnhem Land. He remained at the reservation until he was 20, working at various jobs, including as a carpenter, stockman and crocodile hunter. While still a teenager, he married Amy, a member of the Amadjera Tribe who had also been stolen from her family. In the mid-1960s, the family moved to Adelaide, where Bob completed a welfare residential worker's course. Bob: 'A lot of our kids were being locked up in jail at this stage and I thought I would like to help them.' In 1970, Bob helped establish the Adelaide Community College for Aboriginal people and lectured at the college on Aboriginal cultures. He began to gain recognition for his songwriting in the early 1970s, when his song, 'My Brown Skin Baby [They Took Him Away]' caught the attention of an ABC journalist, David Roberts. This led to the ground-breaking ABC documentary of the same name, which won the Bronze Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and focused national and international attention on the issue of separation. Bob also appeared in the documentary films Buried Country (produced by Film Australia) and Secret Country by John Pilger. His work with Aboriginal communities has taken many forms. He served as the Director of the Northern Australia Legal Aid Service and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander centres at the Australian National University, University of Canberra and University of Wollongong. He continues to present his cultural awareness programs at schools and other institutions and in workplaces. His life-long efforts were recognised in 1999 when he was named 'Indigenous Person of the Year' at the 1999 National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC) awards. In 2004 Bob was inducted in the NT music hall of fame for having written such classic songs as Brown Skin Baby and Red Sun, Black Moon about the Coniston massacre. Bob is also the author of two books: his autobiography "Songman" and a children's book 'Tracker Tjginji" which was part of the 2004 Sydney Writer's Festival. Check out the trailer for the film Kanyini - well worth a watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoAE2...

The Juice speaks to Les Malezer just after his delivery of the 2009 Mabo Lecture in Melbourne on June 3rd. We asked him a few questions about the road ahead for Australia and Aboriginal Land Rights. Here are some of the key juicy points made: 1. The Australian Government is under certain human rights obligations which it is not fulfilling. --Especially so since it signed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/declaration/assembly.html 2. There is a need to depart from the Native Title process and to go back to focusing on Land Rights: "We have to forget about using the Native Title process; it's not working. Lets insist upon a land Rights process, like the one we started in 1985 with the Hawke Government, when they promised us National Land Rights Legislation." 3. The Government must start focusing on OUTCOMES rather than processes- for instance, setting quotas aside (eg 5% of the State) for Aboriginal land. The system must cease putting claimants through bureaucratic hoops. It must instead address the obligations it has towards Aboriginal peoples -- ie: restitution of land. 4. Treaty is the way to go to address the unresolved Australian situation. It establishes the principles of Rights. The UN Declaration provides a platform to allow Aboriginal Peoples to make their own governments and treaties-- Treaty: "We may as well get people used to the word" 5. Human rights obligations and International pressure, rather than public pressure, are needed to push Government to form treaties. It is then the Governement's job to explain to Australians why it is necessary to make such treaties. Unfortunately, due to noisy lawn tractors operating on the pitch, parts of the interview have been edited out :( Filmed at the MCG, Melbourne. Robbie Thorpe's website: http://www.treatyrepublic.net

The dalai lama addresses The Parliament of World Religions,hosted on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people, in Melbourne, Australia: 3-9 December, 2009. The Dalai Lama talks about the common principles of all religions; the importanance of the role of Indigenous People, the Environmental crisis, the role of religion in the 21st century...

The Australian Government just released this advert about its child imprisonment and torture programs in its jails and offshore detention centers, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. ☛ Support us in making new Juicy videos: https://www.patreon.com/TheJuiceMedia ☛ Demand the Australian Government ratifies OPCAT (Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture) by joining this petition: www.amnesty.org.au/OPCAT ☛ FAIR USE is claimed for materials used in this video for purposes of satire and parody ☛ CREDITS * Written by Giordano Nanni & Luke Pearson - @LukeLPearson @IndigenousX * Voiceover by Lucy * Thanks to Benna Coyne, Adso, Jake, Lucy, Dbot and Asher for input & valuable feedback; and to Damian for guest "Authorised" voice! * Talking heads animations by Luke (Arf), check out his other bork: https://www.youtube.com/user/DuckIsPresident ☛ TRANSLATIONS - Russian translation by Anonymous - Serbian translation by Tamara - Spanish translation by Vitama - Dutch translation by Jonas Maebe - German translation by FL-Bremen - Portuguese translation by Vitor - French translation by Julie Chatagnon If you would like to translate this video into your language, please email us: http://http.thejuicemedia.com/contact ☛ SUPPORT THE CREATION OF NEWS VIDEOS: * Become a patron of the Juice on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheJuiceMedia * Donate via Flattr, PayPal, or Bitcoin: http://thejuicemedia.com/support * Bitcoin address: 1HMPK1zFCLopAvNEvR3aehFU1tSvHeWkTS