Occupation: Native

Short entertaining doco takes an inclusive approach to Australia's past, breezily related by Trisha Morton-Thomas with support from (among others) film director/producer Rachel Perkins and writer Bruce Pascoe. In 50 mins it presents a broad sweep of the resilience the world's oldest continuous culture has needed to survive colonisation and what still remains to be achieved. It reveals how the culture of Australia's indigenous peoples was misrepresented and ignored and calls for the full story of Australia's past be taught so that reconciliation can happen. Be prepared to hear the truth of history from those most affected by it. Truly revealing. Why wasn't I taught this at school?!

Whilst Occupation: Native is worth watching as I found it entertaining being a 70yo, 3rd generation Australian. In my life time I have observed this type of so called "Truth Telling" grow from a little thing to the big thing it is now!

A few bleeding hearts started out in the early 1900's to sway a few city dwelling Aboriginals, to stand up for what were some well deserved rights in a changing world. Over the next 70 years having grown in size & strength the movement now includes some remote area aborigines but also includes many that have less than 2% aboriginal ancestry. There are also many now identifying as Aboriginal that have no Aborigine ancestry at all, some estimate these so called "Fake Aborigines" to be between 25% to 33%, this is wrong.

What is also wrong is the narrative that this show presents as being the truth. Whenever the first humanoid came to this continent remains unknown, the claim that over 3% of the population can trace their ancestors entry to this land some 70~80 thousand years ago is illogical. Modern DNA tells us that human entry into Australia prior to 1000 years ago was in at least 3 waves and possibly 15 or more.

This would indicate that many of the current 3% of the population also had ancestors who were invaders who conquered the land and were also guilty of genocide.

There is no doubt all homo sapiens on this planet are distant descendants of the Great Ape so the sooner we ALL accept we're all equal regardless of race colour or creed and live life without racism and bigotry, the better.