29K views · 666 reactions | “It is a difficult pill to swallow as First Peoples to yet again have to ask others to respect us, our place, our culture, our families in this country when we know we have been here well over 60,000 years.” Senator Malarndirri McCarthy - Northern Territory used her first speech in the Senate to call for “a vision for the north” and consider the Northern Territory as the seventh state of Australia. | SBS News | Facebook

15K views · 251 reactions |  Do you remember? On this day in 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy began televised hearings investigating the U.S. Army. Did you watch?   America in Color: The 1950s. For more, follow Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation. https://bit.ly/3pNech8 | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook

Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose name has become synonymous with the anti-Communist panic of the 1950s, was born on November 14, 1908. | American Experience | PBS