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Desert Healing
The community wanted to recognise this painful event which had burdened them for more than seventy years. National Sorry Day presented an opportune time for this to take place. The video is an excellent resource for any group interested in issues of reconciliation and the healing of painful memories. It demonstrates clearly that while the events of the past cannot be undone, healing can indeed happen when people of goodwill work together. Read a letter sent to Mary Darkie Napurrula, one of the elders of the Kutjungka community, that was inspired by the video, and Mary's response. View the teaching notes prepared to accompany Desert Healing in conjunction with Lore of the Land.
Desert Healing recieves UN Commendation
The national awards were presented at a dinner at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne. They recognise media efforts to promote peace and resolve conflict. Fraynework Multimedia recieved a special commendation for Desert Healing which was a finalist in two categories, Best Television and Promotion of Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Desert Healing - Finalist at the Atom 2000 Awards
"The Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) has been promoting the use of media in education for over twenty years, and in which time, the ATOM Awards have evolved into a prestigious annual event. Awards are presented to productions which entertain, inform, enlighten and most importantly educate" - Karen Koch, ATOM Awards Executive Officer.
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Desert
Healing tells the story of what took place when the people of
the Kutjungka Region, South East Kimberley, gathered to recognise
the deaths of their relatives in a massacre that occurred at Purrkuji
(Sturt Creek Station) circa 1922. 
View
the Smoking ceremony
Outstanding
journalism during a landmark year for debate on aboriginal reconciliation
was honored at the 2nd presentation of the United Nations Association
of Australia annual Media Peace Awards announced Friday October
20.
Desert
Healing was a finalist in both Best Secondary School Resource
and Best Indigenious Production in the Atom 2000 Awards held on
Saturday the 20th of May.
Desert
Healing has been recommended as a resource for the Jubilee Year
in the Summer 1999 edition of Compass (vol. 33 no. 4). The Compass
list of 4 Jubilee titles was prepared by Br Trevor Dean CFC, Executive
Officer of Adelaide, South Australia's, Jubilee 2000 Committee.
The recommendation gives further public recognition to this powerful
and moving story which has been acclaimed across the country by
those who have seen it.
