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In 1985, a band from the remote Central Australian community of Papunya released an album that would become one of the landmark recordings in Australian music. 'Big Name, No Blankets' was Warumpi Band’s debut studio album, capturing the raw energy of a group that was already breaking down musical and cultural barriers. Led by the charismatic George Rrurrambu, with Neil Murray and brothers Sammy and Gordon Butcher, Warumpi Band fused rock and roll with Luritja, Gumatj and English, creating...

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation, from the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Born in Cloncurry in 1950, she grew up to become not just one of Australia's finest writers, but arguably one of the most important literary voices this continent has ever produced. And that's not us being generous. Before the novels, there was the activism. Wright worked for decades across Aboriginal organisations and campaigns...on land rights, on mining, on community. That deep,...

Born in Darwin in 1996, Baker Boy grew up in Milingimbi and Maningrida — two remote communities in north-east Arnhem Land. A Yolŋu man, raised on Country, immersed in dance, language and culture from the very beginning. And he took all of that — every bit of it — and did something nobody had done before. He became the first Indigenous artist to achieve mainstream success rapping in Yolŋu Matha. Think about how big that is. Rapping...one of the most globally dominant sounds on the planet,...