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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 might feel their way...

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 law academics and...

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 coming from and...