ABSTRACT
The diversity of levels and practices in television creates different possibilities for the Aboriginalisation of functions. Aboriginal programming is increasingly becoming Aboriginalised in the sense of being made by Aborigines, with those Aborigines shaping, selecting and controlling most aspects of production. Imparja Television is an Aboriginal organisation operating and owning a regional commercial television licence and Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Productions in Alice Springs is an Aboriginal-controlled television production company dealing with central Australian Aboriginal topics. The emergence in the 1980s of Aboriginal television, Aboriginal programs on television and Aboriginal organisations controlling television services has pur a great deal of pressure upon programming involving Aborigines and Aboriginal subject matter. The Aboriginalisation of crewing, creative direction and management in Aboriginal television is limited by the lack of appropriately qualified people. Inter-Aboriginal televisual communication is designed to facilitate self-determination.
