Music Spotlight: From My Eyes [1982].

A group of young Aboriginal men, most of them raised on Koonibba Mission near Ceduna in South Australia, came together while studying at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in Adelaide. It was there, for the first time, that they heard the sounds coming out of Jamaica — Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff. Reggae. Music of struggle, of resistance, of a people refusing to be broken.

And something clicked.

Led by Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby on drums and vocals, they took that reggae sound and fused it with their own stories, their own struggle, their own Country. In doing so, they basically invented a whole new genre, Australian reggae. Nobody had heard anything like it.

Then, in 1982, came the landmark moment, their debut album 'From My Eyes'.

Here's how big a deal this was. It was the first album by an Aboriginal band to feature original songs in a contemporary style. Not covers. Not country ballads. Their own voice, their own way. And get this, the album was launched at the Hilton Hotel by none other than future Prime Minister Bob Hawke. They then performed the title track on Countdown, becoming the first Aboriginal band ever to appear on that iconic show.

Everywhere they went, they were breaking ground nobody had broken before.

But the song that truly made history was "We Have Survived."

Written by Bart Willoughby when he was just 18 years old. Eighteen. Its most famous lines cut straight to the bone, a defiant declaration that Aboriginal people had survived the white man's world, and that nothing could change that truth.

It became the unofficial anthem of the land rights movement. A song sung at rallies, marches and gatherings across the country. A song that took generations of pain and turned it into something powerful, proud and unbreakable. In 2008, "We Have Survived" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry — officially recognised as one of the most important recordings this country has ever produced.

They toured the punishing Australian pub rock circuit alongside Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel, INXS and Men at Work. They supported the legendary Peter Tosh.

Their story wasn't easy. They copped racism constantly, the everyday kind that shocked the white musicians travelling with them. There was even a fiery truck crash on the Nullarbor in 1982. But the name said it all. No Fixed Address. They kept moving. They persevered. They endured.

They were inducted into the National Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame, and reunited in 2016 to keep the flame burning for a whole new generation.