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Returning: Awaken

Indigenous current affairs programme returns to NITV next week talking to grassroots community members from around the nation.

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Current affairs programme Awaken, hosted by Stan Grant, will return to NITV next week featuring discussions on the proposed closures of Aboriginal communities, the current policies on child removal and the Indigenous education gap.

The first episode is guest-hosted by executive producer Catherine Liddle.

Episode One: Talking Country
Opening the series, Catherine Liddle talks to grassroots community members from around the nation about the innate link between Indigenous people and their country and the remarkable lengths that they will take to protect it. Guests include, Nelson Biendurry, the man who started the SOS Blak Campaigns to stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, Barbara Shaw, a former candidate for the Northern Territory Seat of Lingiari, award-winning filmmaker Curtis Taylor and Tauto Sansbury, winner of the 2015 NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award.

9pm October 21st on NITV.

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