Awaye! - Full Program Podcast

Two talented storytellers discuss their work. Plus we hear from the New South Wales/Queensland state border amidst COVID lockdowns.

Today, Claire Coleman discusses her new book that blends the personal with the political, looking at the ongoing process of colonialism in Australia.

A new documentary is revealing the hard truths of Australia’s criminal justice system, and we hear how COVID-19 is affecting Wilcannia in western New South Wales.

This month marks the 55th anniversary of the Wave Hill Walkoff — when Vincent Lingiari led more than two hundred Aboriginal stockmen and domestic workers walked off the Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory. 

Writer, poet and educator Jazz Money discusses the poetics of Indigenous languages, Gamilaroi theatre maker Megan Wilding on her award-winning play GAME. SET. MATCH.

The winners of the country’s longest running art awards for Indigenous artists have been announced.

Dr Larissa Behrendt and debut filmmaker Tiriki Onus are flipping the colonial lens to discover what happens when you view stories through a First Nations’ lens.

Today, we meet Sydney Opera House’s new head of First Nations programming — Beau James — and hear what they hope to bring to this very exciting and challenging role.

Today, from art and architecture, to film and science — Indigenous cultures are not “terra nullius.”

Today, we return to the high country and the headwaters of the biggest rivers in south-eastern Australia for a ceremony that until 2019 hadn’t been performed in generations.

The NAIDOC theme of Heal Country is a challenge as much as a statement. And country is not just our part of the world, it’s the nation itself.

Associate Artistic Director Frances Rings takes us backstage at Bangarra's SandSong, and Australian Museums Unsettled is uncovering truths.

Wiradjuri dancer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher Daniel Riley is the first First Nations Artistic Director to lead a non-Indigenous dance company in Australia — he shares what's led him to this moment.

Richard Bell has always wielded the paintbrush like a megaphone, to speak truth to power.

Lou Bennett has won the prestigious Red Ochre Award for a lifetime of outstanding achievement.

It’s been 26 years since Deborah Mailman and Wesley Enoch’s play The Seven Stages of Grieving debuted.

In the third episode of ABC Indigenous’ podcast Thin Black Line violence erupts as Brisbane’s frustrated Murri community march on police headquarters.

We bring you the second episode of Thin Black Line, a six-part investigation into one of the most controversial deaths in custody — that of 18-year old Daniel Yock.

This week we look at the war legacy of one family and how bravery and sacrifice didn’t count for a lot once they returned home.

When Dark Mofo put out a sickening call for the blood of First Nations people for an artwork it sparked outrage and condemnation. We talk to the Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who has tried to constructively engage with the festival and its parent institution MONA for the past seven years - and she tells us why she’s walking away. And former Queensland Police officer Ronnie Gorrie on her memoir Black and Blue.