Resources

Yuendumu

The CQ: Who Should tell Indigenous Stories program features an engaging forum about the effect of media coverage of Indigenous issues on Indigenous people, the general population and public policy. The issue of Indigenous people having control over the media, on their country is central to the discussion.

Francis Kelly is an Indigenous filmmaker from Yuendumu. The Yuendumu community has controversially sought control over which media covers stories about it. CQ Producer, Claire Absolum, travelled to Yuendumu to talk to Francis Kelly about reporting in indigenous communities.




Journalism Education Resource - CQ: Who Should tell Indigenous Stories

The SBS CQ: Who Should tell Indigenous Stories program features an engaging forum about the effect of media coverage of Indigenous issues on Indigenous people, the general population and public policy. What became apparent during the planning of CQ: Who Should tell Indigenous Stories was the absence of educational resources available for journalism students to understand the effects of media coverage of Indigenous issues.

SBS and NITV are keen to support meaningful discussions on Indigenous issues in the media. To do this, we’ve developed an online tertiary education resource that is freely available to journalism and media teachers and students.

The resource is in .pdf format here.

Add Comment

  • verification image

All submitted comments become the property of SBS. They are moderated, so we reserve the right to edit comments and remove HTML tags. Not all submitted comments will be published. Publication does not mean we endorse the opinions expressed. Please read our terms and conditions for more information.

About the SBS CQ Forum

SBS CQ is a forum series and online resource around media practice, particularly as it relates to Australian cultural diversity. CQ draws on research, commentary and a range of views to take debates further around the ways media reflect, shape and interpret our society.

This special debate – the third in the series – is hosted by award-winning journalist Stan Grant, and poses the question:
Who should tell Indigenous stories?
Guests state that the media fails to cover Indigenous issues in any depth, or that it only focuses on conflict and negativity. The forum discusses how any negative portrayal of Indigenous stories in the media can shape society and affect public policy.

CQ is also an online resource for media students, practitioners and researchers, providing a space for recent research aligned with the topics we cover. Feel free to comment, https://twitter.com/SBS_CQ contribute or contact us: email david.melzer@sbs.com.au

Read More