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Explore powerful stories at the intersection of history, culture, and music—from Aboriginal cricket pioneers and war heroes to legendary albums by Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Gurrumul. This blog dives deep into First Nations resilience, iconic protest music, and untold truths that shaped Australia and the world. Engaging, thoughtful, and unapologetically real—where powerful voices from the past meet today's social conversation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this page contains images and names of deceased persons.
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Music Spotlight | 'Gurrumul' — Dr G. Yunupingu (2008)
There are albums that entertain you. There are albums that impress you. And then, very rarely, there is an album that does something you can't quite explain — that reaches past your ears and lands somewhere deeper. 'Gurrumul' is that kind of album. Dr Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a man of the Gumatj clan of northeast Arnhem Land. He was born blind, and yet as a child he taught himself guitar, keyboard, drums and didgeridoo — feeling his way through music the way others mig
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2 days ago2 min read
3 June, marks one of the most significant days in Australian history.
It begins with a man called Eddie Koiki Mabo. Eddie was born in 1936 on Mer — Murray Island — a small jewel of land in the eastern Torres Strait, homeland of the Meriam people. He grew up knowing exactly who he was, where he came from and where he belonged. His family's connection to that land wasn't something that needed to be proven. It was simply true. It had always been true. Then one day in 1974, while working at James Cook University in Townsville, Eddie sat down with l
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5 days ago3 min read
Music Spotlight | BRIGGS.
Some artists make music. Briggs makes history. And he's been doing it so consistently, so fearlessly, for so long, that it's easy to forget just how much ground this bloke has covered. Adam Briggs — born and raised in Shepparton, Victoria — is a proud Yorta Yorta man, and he wears that identity literally: the name of his people is tattooed on both forearms. "So every time I rock the mic," he's said, "people know that I am representing." That says everything about where he's c
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May 303 min read
Garma Festival.
Every August, something happens in the Top End that most Australians never get to see — and it's honestly one of the most extraordinary things this country has to offer. It's called Garma Festival...and our radio team will be heading there this year. The word "Garma" itself is a Yolŋu Matha term for "two-way learning process" — a place where freshwater and saltwater meet, where old and young, Yolŋu and balanda (non-Indigenous people) come together as one. That philosophy isn'
Groote Broadcasting
May 292 min read
National Reconciliation Week.
National Reconciliation Week starts today. And this year, the message is simple: All In. Not some of us. Not when it's convenient. Not just during the one week a year when it appears on the calendar and organisations put up a poster in the lunchroom. All of us. Every day. All in. National Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May to 3 June every year — and those two dates aren't chosen randomly. They mark two of the most significant moments in this country's history. On 27 May 196
Groote Broadcasting
May 272 min read
World Football Day.
Football has always been more than a game. Anyone who's ever kicked a ball around with family, or watched a community come alive around a match, already knows that. It connects people across language, across culture, across everything that usually divides us. Right now, with the FIFA World Cup 2026 just weeks away — the biggest tournament in history, spanning Canada, the United States and Mexico — the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has done something quietly extraordinary. They've a
Groote Broadcasting
May 252 min read
Artist Spotlight: William Barton.
He grew up on a cattle station outside Mt Isa, picked up a didgeridoo at age seven, and somehow ended up performing at Westminster Abbey, Anzac Cove, and the Beijing Olympics. That's William Barton, and his story is something else entirely. For anyone who hasn't heard of him — you're about to want to fix that. William started learning the yidaki from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people. It wasn't a formal lesson. It was a handover
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May 233 min read
Bees are running the world.
Bees are basically running the world. Quietly. Without a salary. Without a single complaint. Just buzzing around doing the most important job on the planet while we largely ignore them. Here's the thing most people don't realise. Around 75% of the world's food crops depend at least in part on pollination. Mangoes. Watermelons. Almonds. Avocados. Coffee. Gone without bees. No bees. No breakfast. It really is that simple. And here's where it stops being fun. Wild bee species re
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May 202 min read
Artist Spotlight: Ziggy Ramo
An award-winning musician, writer and producer of Wik and Solomon Islander heritage, Ziggy Ramo has become one of the most fearless and important voices in contemporary Australian music. Through hip hop, soul, spoken word and razor-sharp storytelling, he’s built a body of work that confronts racism, identity, history and healing — without ever losing sight of humanity. What makes Ziggy stand out is his ability to balance power with vulnerability. One moment he’s delivering bl
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May 161 min read
Groote Eylandt is one of Australia’s most extraordinary island escapes.
Remote, rugged and deeply connected to ancient culture, Groote Eylandt is one of Australia’s most extraordinary island escapes. Located in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the Northern Territory coast, this wild and beautiful island is home to the Anindilyakwa people, Traditional Owners whose connection to the land and sea stretches back thousands of years. Their culture, language, art and storytelling remain a living part of everyday life on the island, giving visitors a rare opp
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May 131 min read
65,000 years of unbroken connection to Country.
When Aboriginal people were already living, cooking, making tools and painting on the walls of rock shelters across this continent — the pyramids of Egypt were still 60,000 years from being built. Rome didn't exist. Neither did Greece. The entirety of what we call Western civilisation hadn't yet formed as a concept. First Nations Australians were here. Not just surviving. Flourishing. The evidence isn't mythological — though oral traditions carry their own profound authority.
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May 112 min read
Artist Spotlight: Alan Dargin.
He started at age five, with a hundred-year-old instrument and a grandfather's hands guiding his own. Born in Wee Waa, New South Wales in 1967, Dargin began learning the didgeridoo at age five from his grandfather, who passed down the instrument as a treasured family heirloom — cut from a variety of bloodwood tree that has since gone extinct. Those early lessons weren't just music lessons. They were a transmission of culture, story, and identity across generations. The didger
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May 92 min read
Cinco de Mayo.
Today, May 5th, is one of those celebrations that's travelled so far from its origins that most people celebrating it couldn't tell you what it actually commemorates. And that's kind of the story of Cinco de Mayo in a nutshell. It's not Mexican Independence Day. That's September 16th. What today actually marks is the Battle of Puebla — May 5th, 1862 — when a smaller, under-resourced Mexican army pulled off a stunning defeat against French imperial forces who were considered v
Groote Broadcasting
May 51 min read
We are now LIVE at 5.00am!
New broadcasting times are now in effect and don't forget the sensational sista's Amathea and Jaslyn will be starting their new Daily Show soon! Stay tuned.
Groote Broadcasting
May 41 min read
'The Loner' by Vic Simms.
Some albums are polished in studios. Others are forged under pressure — and 'The Loner' is about as raw and real as it gets. Recorded in just one hour inside Bathurst Gaol in 1973, with a mobile studio rolled in by RCA, this wasn’t meant to be a landmark moment in Australian music. It was supposed to be a public relations exercise for the prison system. Instead, it became something else entirely. Vic Simms — a Bidjigal man and inmate at the time — turned that brief window int
Groote Broadcasting
May 22 min read
Indigenous art is having a moment. A big one.
Indigenous art is having a moment. A big one. And that's both wonderful and complicated. Walk into any gallery in a major Australian city right now and you'll find stunning First Nations artwork commanding serious attention — and serious money. The world has woken up to the power, the depth and the extraordinary beauty of the oldest living art tradition on the planet. That recognition is long overdue and genuinely exciting. But here's where it gets uncomfortable. An estimated
Groote Broadcasting
Apr 302 min read
Film Spotlight: Wolfram.
Wolfram [directed by Warwick Thornton] Set in 1930s Central Australia, Wolfram pulls no punches. It shines a light on a brutal and largely untold chapter of Australia's history — where Aboriginal children were taken and forced into labour in remote mining camps during the wolfram (tungsten) boom. At its heart, though, this isn’t just a story about exploitation — it’s a story about survival, family, and resistance. Anchored by a powerful performance from Deborah Mailman, the f
Groote Broadcasting
Apr 271 min read
Anzac Day 2026.
This year, we want to make sure we remember some of the people who have too often been left out of that promise. When Australia answered the call in 1914, thousands of young men signed up to serve a country they believed in. Among them were an estimated 1,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who served with the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War. The precise figure will never be known — because a number of those who served changed their names and bir
Groote Broadcasting
Apr 252 min read
International Mother Earth Day 2026.
Today is 'International Mother Earth Day'. And the theme this year is "Our Power, Our Planet." Which feels about right. Because if there's one thing that's become pretty clear, it's that nobody's coming to save this place for us. Not a government. Not a corporation. Not some far-off agreement signed in a conference room somewhere. It's on all of us. Every single one. Now before your eyes start glazing over — stay with us. This isn't a lecture. Here's the thing about Mother Ea
Groote Broadcasting
Apr 222 min read
A Kamilaroi kid who changed the game.
From couch-surfing in Redfern to headlining Coachella — this is the story of a Kamilaroi kid who changed the game. Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard — better known to the world as The Kid LAROI. Born in Waterloo, New South Wales, and proudly Kamilaroi (Gamilaraay) through his mother's side, his name isn't just a stage name — "LAROI" is a direct tribute to the Kamilaroi people, the mob he comes from. And everything about his journey honours that heritage. From humble beginnings
Groote Broadcasting
Apr 182 min read
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