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First Contact
Season 2 , Episode 2Part 2 of 3. A three-part Australian series exposing the lack of awareness and division existing between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. -
First Contact
Season 2 , Episode 3(AO) Part 3 of 3. A three-part Australian series exposing the lack of awareness and division existing between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. -
First Contact
Season 2 , Episode 1Part 1 of 3. Journalist Ray Martin and six Australian celebrities with very conflicting opinions about the nation's indigenous peoples embark on a life-changing journey . -
First Contact
Season 1 , Episode 2The group arrives on Elcho Island where around 2,500 Aboriginal people live in some of the most deprived conditions in the western world. The six are shocked but in amongst the helplessness, there’s hope. Next in Alice Springs, Ray Martin directs the travelers to join a night patrol service which helps the drunk and vulnerable. It’s not long before tempers flare. Emotions are then pushed to the limit as the group meet women struggling with addiction and share their own life traumas. For one of the six, the journey into Aboriginal Australia becomes all too much to take… Next stop is the Pilbara where a very different side of the mining business will be revealed. -
First Contact
Season 1 , Episode 3After almost three weeks immersed into Aboriginal Australia, the group is about to face their most confronting experience yet. They are taken to Roebourne Regional Prison to discover what life is like on the inside. Coming face to face with Aboriginal prisoners splits the group in two. Ray Martin arrives at the prison and the final leg of the journey begins. The destination is Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley – a town once ravaged by the horrors of alcohol, domestic violence and suicide. But that was before local Aboriginal women fought back to save their community. By journey’s end, the group is left to reflect on their epic adventure into Aboriginal Australia. -
First Contact (2014)
Season 1 , Episode 1The six participants are brought to the heart of Aboriginal Australia - Uluru. Waiting for the group is award winning journalist, Ray Martin. Ray reveals to the group that they will spend the next 24 hours hosted by Aboriginal families in a place where more Indigenous people live than just about anywhere else in Australia – Sydney. The outspoken Aussies have their views challenged on everything from welfare to Aboriginal identity.
