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Saturday 22 Apr 2017
100 years after a military order revoked a ban on Aboriginal men serving in the so-called Great War, we bring you the stories of four of the men told through their letters home.
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Taungurung linguist Lee Healy shares three words that encapsulate the Taungurung worldview.
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Saturday 15 Apr 2017
A panther stalks the imaginary landscape in the magic realism of Evelyn Araluen's award-winning short story about Aboriginal country and the metaphysical world.
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In Aboriginal communities in Central Australia, English could be the fourth or fifth language people learn. One of the first is Arrernte.
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When John Howard declared that some people held to a negative view of Australian history, he unwittingly created a band.
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Singer-songwriter Glenn Skuthorpe has storytelling in his blood. He's just released his fifth album See My World - the first he's produced himself.
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Saturday 8 Apr 2017
When A.B. Original won the Australian Music Prize, a Murdoch press hack couldn't help themselves - tweeting the least controversial thing about the album.
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Language teacher Tracey Cameron explains how stargazing - and a constellation in the night sky - helped the Gamilaraay people in the hunt for food.
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Despite what you may think, Aboriginal design is not speculative. We ask a panel including two architects, a furniture designer and an urban planner to flesh out some concrete examples of blak design.
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What sets Indigenous drag apart from straight, white, mainstream drag?
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Saturday 1 Apr 2017
How do we define Australian art - and what are its borders? And where do we situate the practice of Indigenous artists in a national context?
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The Dharug language covers much of greater and western Sydney and it gives us some distinctive place names that might be familiar: Parramatta, Yagoona and Wahroonga for example.
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For stand-ip comedian Josh Warrior, nothing is sacred - his vision impairment, his kids and the missteps of fatherhood. And he reckons you're missing something if you can't have a good laugh at yourself.
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Saturday 25 Mar 2017
We track the history of Aboriginal participation at the Venice Biennale - the Olympics of the art world.
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In just sheer weight of numbers of performances and events, Melbourne's Indigenous-led Yirramboi is - to all intents and purposes - a major arts festival.
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We meet a teacher who shares some Guugu Yimithirr - the Aboriginal language that gives us the word kangaroo.
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Saturday 18 Mar 2017
From the forced closure of Aboriginal communities to the trauma of the stolen generations, Ali Cobby Eckermann is not afraid to use her literary voice.
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Language is a time machine for Yugambeh speaker John Graham.
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Racism and empathy do battle in the screen adaptation of the much-loved Australian novel Jasper Jones. But if you blink you could miss the Aboriginal hero in the new film by director Rachel Perkins.
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What does it mean to live off country? For some of us it can present challenges. Choreographed by Mariaa Randall, Divercity explores the complexities of a transplanted life.
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Saturday 11 Mar 2017
The latest genetic research establishes a scientific basis for what's termed 'connection to country'. The key to that research - locks of hair collected by anthropologists last century.
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The Boonwurrung language was once spoken from what is now Melbourne south to Wilson's Promontory.
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The soprano Deborah Cheetham has composed a war requiem - to honour the Gunditjmara who died in defence of their country.
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