AWAYE!
AWAYE!
Awaye! means 'listen up' in the Arrernte language of central Australia. It is produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. It covers music (from the yidaki and gumleaf to techno), arts, spirituality, politics, dance, ...
2009-11-21 Strongbala: making strong men
In the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth intervention continues to have unintended consequences - including a greater focus on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal men. A new program has been launched in Katherine which recognises both the truth and ...
2009-11-21 Strongbala: making strong men
In the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth intervention continues to have unintended consequences - including a greater focus on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal men. A new program has been launched in Katherine which recognises both the truth and ...
2009-11-14 Sisters of Gelam
A new play explores the journey of two sisters from Melbourne to their father´s homeland in the Torres Strait and the post-war migration of their Dutch mother. Sisters of Gelam is about the universal search for identity, interwoven with contemporary and ...
2009-11-07 Larapuna (Bay of Fires)
A magnificent stretch of coastline in north-eastern Tasmania was named the Bay of Fires by a French explorer in 1773 as he watched the smoke rise from campfires lit by the first Tasmanians who knew it as Larapuna. We go on a sound journey along the ...
2009-11-07 Larapuna (Bay of Fires)
A magnificent stretch of coastline in north-eastern Tasmania was named the Bay of Fires by a French explorer in 1773 as he watched the smoke rise from campfires lit by the first Tasmanians who knew it as Larapuna. We go on a sound journey along the ...
2009-10-31 No Place Like Home
Tony Albert is one of Australia´s most collectable artists. His latest series of work No Place Like Home is at least partly inspired by the Wizard of Oz, incorporating a pair of glittery Adidas sneakers, Mexican wrestling masks and riot photography. ...
2009-10-31 No Place Like Home
Tony Albert is one of Australia´s most collectable artists. His latest series of work No Place Like Home is at least partly inspired by the Wizard of Oz, incorporating a pair of glittery Adidas sneakers, Mexican wrestling masks and riot photography. ...
2009-10-24 Will to Live (part 2)
Last year in Adelaide leading scholars from around the world joined with Aboriginal health workers to try and find a pathway for health equality to be achieved within a generation. But while Indigenous health workers welcomed the Federal Government's ...
2009-10-17 Will to Live (part 1)
The global movement to bring about health equality within a generation led in Australia to a grass roots campaign to Close The Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy. The campaign achieved bi-partisan support from Parliament and a 1.6 ...
2009-10-10 Albert's gift (part 2) - The pathfinder
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, we reflect on the life and art of Albert Namatjira. A critical revision of Namatjira's work is underway but has the popular mythology of his life obscured his art and deprived him of his proper place in the ...
2009-10-03 Albert's gift (part 1) - Lola's story
In 1956, Albert Namatjira made an unexpected visit to the Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls Training Home, where Lola Edwards was sent when she was just four years old. Namatjira must have been moved by the experience because on his return to Central ...
2009-09-26 Stone Bros
The new comedy directed by the award-winning filmmaker Richard Frankland, Stone Bros is a light-hearted romp in the Australian outback, more Priscilla Queen of the Desert than Cheech and Chong. Yet the film´s been rated MA15+, because of what the ...
2009-09-19 Last Truck Out/Nurreegoo: one man's art/The Hill live at The Dreaming
Betty Lockyer was born at the height of the Pacific War when the threat of Japanese bombing raids forced the evacuation of Broome. A Kimberley war baby, Betty recalls her childhood in her autobiography Last Truck Out. Ron Hurley was one of the first ...
2009-09-12 Adnyamathanha Womens Choir
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait people the issue of maintaining language and culture is crucial, not only to pass on a strong sense of identity to the next generation but also to gain recognition as the first peoples of Australia. Today's program comes ...
2009-09-05 Deadly brother boy: Sermsah bin Saad
Last year Sermsah bin Saad reached the finals of the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance? Now, he´s heard across the Kimberley on Larrkadi Radio. Also in this program - we meet one of the traditional owners of Croker Island off the Northern ...
2009-08-29 Dreamtime fire/Tiwi sistergirls
For thousands of years Aboriginal people have skilfully used fire to manage their environment. Senior ranger and fire ecologist Dean Yibarbuk from the Kabulwarnamyo community in Arnhem Land talks about the benefits of traditional fire management and ...
2009-08-22 26th Telstra Art Awards
A gaudy, esoteric mixed media work on paper overloaded with Masonic symbology, China blue, gold and Swarovski crystals has won the 26th Telstra Art Award. Danie Mellor´s From Rite to Ritual uses a personal visual language derived from Western art to ...
2009-08-15 Bill Simon - Kinchela boy
On a cold winter's day in 1957, 9-year-old Bill Simon was physically forced into the back of a government welfare officer's car and driven to the notoriously brutal Kinchela Boys' Home near Kempsey, where some of the most sadistic punishments were ...
2009-08-08 A bastard life
Jack Charles reckons he´s had a bastard of a life but throughout his 66 years and despite the plunging lows, he´s kept a sense of humour and a wicked laugh. Uncle Jack has been many things - professional actor, heroin addict, committed thief, prison ...