AustLit

'When one of the cousins in her family committed suicide, as the oldest of her generation, Larrakia woman Jada Alberts felt a sense of responsibility.'

'There's a cello playing repetitive rhythms on the first song of the late Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's new album Djarimirri. In that first song, Waak (Crow), the song weaves together the cello with Gurrumul's voice as he sings in Arnhem Land Dhanju clan, Galpu.'

'Once an activist, always an activist. In her 60s now, Marlene Cummins is still changing the world through everything she does.' 

'Michael Jackson eat your heart out - Ghenoa Gela has taken the stage. The dancer and entertainer grew up in Rockhampton, Central Queensland, watching Jackson - The King of Pop - and she added his grooves to the Torres Strait Islander dance moves she grew up with.'

'When Kiki's vagina comes to life as 'Kitty' and confronts the way she looks at life, it's the beginning of a funny new ABC TV series, Kiki and Kitty.

'Playing the female lead in her first movie Refraction on her family's traditional lands on Minjerribay (North Stradbroke Island) was a powerful experience for Nunukal woman Kaleenah Edwards.' 

'The recent harassment of Mununjali poet Ellen van Neerven by NSW HSC school students on social media has raised criticism about the understanding of modern Indigenous literature in the education system.'

'When he was at school, Kamilaroi author Greg Dreise's favourite story was Tiddakik the Frog.'