Current Affairs: NAIDOC Week 2018

Australia’s First Peoples are the world’s oldest living civilization dating back some 50,000 years according to a recent genetic study by an international team of academics. The 1788 European settlement resulted in a series of discriminatory policies against the traditional owners of the land with devastating effects on their civil rights and the survival of traditions, culture and languages. Waiyee Yeung has the details.

NITV asked the public to nominate exceptional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in their community for NAIDOC Week 2018 Source: Supplied