Radio highlights

Issue 

@9point = Indian Pacific — Peter Mares presents the last part of the series on modern Japan's attitude to World War II, The Japan That Can Say Sorry. Also, a special feature on the 50th anniversary of Indonesia's independence: Indian Pacific talks to surviving members of the group accused of launching the coup that precipitated Suharto's bloody takeover in 1965. ABC Radio National, Saturday, 8.05am, August 19.

@9point = "That's My Country ... ": Shared History or Contested Ground — Anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnographers, historians and geographers have all attempted to "map" the connections between indigenous Australians and the land. But Aboriginal people have also mapped and marked their country continuously with paintings, dances, stories and ceremonies — commemorating associations with places which do not fit easily into the official criteria for assessing significant attachment to land. What happens when a place embodies important historical or cultural values to different groups of people, when a site of value to indigenous people has also become important to successive generations of non-Aboriginal people? ABC Radio National, Sunday, August 20, 2.05pm (repeated Thursday, August 24, 2.05pm).

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