In 1999 the first indigenous broadcast television service, government-owned Television Tonga, was established.
The series is part of a recent and encouraging upswell of Indigenous Australian television and film productions.
New Zealand enjoys a state-funded Indigenous broadcaster, Māori Television, the US does not.
But they devoted the greatest part of their efforts to translating the film into indigenous languages in which television shows and films are not ordinarily available.
The most popular new talent Logie winner, Love Child's Miranda Tapsell, used her triumph to call on casting bosses to put more Indigenous people on Australian television.
There has been a long history of indigenous creativity in Australian television, radio and filmmaking.
One of these, Woobinda – Animal Doctor, marked the first appearance of an Indigenous Australian in a television series lead role – not by Dodd, but by a Bindi Williams, playing an adopted son of the show's star.
Indigenous products such as televisions and washing machines that relied on outdated technology suddenly faced competition from globe-straddling manufacturers.
The source consulted for the 1930s does not even mention the existence of stoves or televisions in indigenous houses.
But, Verass explains, "before audiences see Rhonda Jackson lock lips on-screen, we're introduced to Indigenous Australians' sexual agency on television with a close-up of Jackson screaming as a masked male figure aggressively forces himself on her".
The Sapphires, for example, was a landmark moment for Indigenous Australians working in film and television.
