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Saturday 18 Feb 2017
The oldest voice recordings ever made of an Aboriginal person have been inscribed on the world register of public memory.
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The University of Sydney holds hundreds of objects of Aboriginal material culture - from Yirrkala bark paintings to the pandanus sail of a Yolngu canoe.
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We learn some Anindilyakwa - the language spoken on some of the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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We meet three architects who speculate on the ways architecture and design can embed Indigenous cultures - from residential homes to public buildings.
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Saturday 11 Feb 2017
Vernon Ah Kee's major solo exhibition Not An Animal Or A Plant might have been a retrospective.
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Wiradjuri man Jason O'Neil shares three words that describe the break of day, a way of living that's like a moral code and a term of farewell.
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Who’s Afraid of Colour? is a new exhibition drawn from one of the world's best collections of Aboriginal art.
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Can you imagine a school that covers 48,000 square kilometres?
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Saturday 4 Feb 2017
Every year, students from the University of Melbourne head up the Hume Highway bound for Yorta Yorta country - and a classroom that has no walls.
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For Lou Bennett, the power of language is not so much in individual words but in the phrase.
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Saturday 28 Jan 2017
Imagine you're stranded on a remote outstation in the wet season. Your car is bogged and you're running low on food. Then, the unthinkable happens.
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Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says the ABC has forgotten remote communities with its decision to cut shortwave radio services.
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Saturday 21 Jan 2017
Aboriginal English terms like country, deadly and gammon are part of the wider Australian vernacular. The term 'country' is a startling example of how the Aboriginal use of English has deepened the meaning of some words.
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The idea was simple enough: pick a word from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language and explain why it defies English translation.
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Saturday 14 Jan 2017
How do you make sense of a massacre? That's precisely the question First Nations artists from Australia and Canada had to confront when they were invited to make new work for an exhibition 200 years after the Appin massacre, south-west of Sydney.
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Saturday 7 Jan 2017
The protagonist of ABC TV’s Cleverman is not the first Aboriginal superhero. In the comic universe there’s the mystical Gateway, the dreadlocked Manifold and Batman’s deputy The Dark Ranger who masquerades as a tattoo artist from Saint Kilda.
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Blood is both a substance and a metaphor in a new dance theatre work by Jacob Boehme - the partly autobiographical Blood on the Dance Floor.
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Katie Beckett was raised by her father after her mother died in a head-on collision. It resonates in her play Which Way Home, which unfolds on a road trip from Ipswich to Goodooga in outback New South Wales.
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