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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.

Music Spotlight | Frank Yamma

Central Australia has a sound. It's in the heat that radiates off red rock at dusk, in the dry creek beds, in the silence that stretches further than most people are comfortable with. Frank Yamma somehow put all of that into a guitar and a voice — and the result is some of the most honest music this country has ever produced. Frank was born at a waterhole in Kaltukatjara in Australia's Northern Territory and grew up in Alice Springs. His father, Isaac Yamma, was a pioneer — o

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Barunga Festival: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Why You Should Know About It

If you've never heard of Barunga Festival, you're not alone — but you probably should have. Every King's Birthday long weekend in June, something quietly extraordinary happens in a small Aboriginal community 80 kilometres southeast of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Thousands of people roll in from across Australia — and beyond — set up tents in the red dust, and spend three days immersed in one of the most authentic Indigenous cultural experiences this country has to of

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Jun 84 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

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.

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May 41 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

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Apr 252 min read

The Final Quarter: The unmistakable brilliance of Adam Goodes.

The Final Quarter is not a sports documentary in the conventional sense. It contains highlights, trophies and the unmistakable brilliance of Adam Goodes in full flight, but its true subject is something far more unsettling: how a nation responds when an Indigenous champion refuses to remain silent. Directed with restraint and purpose, the film focuses on the final three years of Goodes’ AFL career, a period in which his on-field excellence collided with a storm of public back

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Feb 22 min read

Evonne Goolagong Cawley: A Champion with Grace.

Some sporting legends dominate with power. Evonne Goolagong Cawley did it with grace. Born in 1951 and raised in the small town of Barellan, NSW, Evonne grew up at a time when life for Aboriginal families was shaped by strict government control and constant uncertainty. This was the Stolen Generations era — when many Aboriginal children were taken from their families, and opportunity was not something that came easily. As a young girl, Evonne spent hours hitting a tennis ball

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Jan 191 min read

Mitch Tambo - Guurrama-Li [2018]

Mitch Tambo’s debut album Guurrama-Li [2018] arrived with the confidence and clarity of an artist who knows exactly who he is and exactly what he wants to say. A proud Gamilaraay man with a voice built for both ceremony and stadiums, Tambo has created a project that is as much a cultural declaration as it is a musical statement — a fusion of pop ambition, traditional language, and deep-rooted storytelling that feels both celebratory and necessary. From the outset, Guurrama-Li

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Dec 13, 20252 min read

Oral tradition sits at the heart of First Nations cultures in Australia.

Oral tradition sits at the heart of First Nations cultures in Australia—an intellectual, spiritual, and cultural archive maintained not on paper, but in memory, voice, and lived practice. For tens of thousands of years, long before written language was introduced to the continent, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples preserved vast bodies of knowledge through spoken word, song, dance, story, ceremony, art, and Country itself. These traditions are not simply stories;

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Nov 26, 20252 min read

Coloured Stone – Koonibba Rock (1985).

When Koonibba Rock landed in 1985, it didn’t just introduce Coloured Stone to the world—it carved out a new, unapologetically Aboriginal...

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Aug 20, 20252 min read