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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Archie Recognised for Lifetime of Music,
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Uncle Archie Roach was inducted into the Australian Record Industry Awards (ARIAs) Hall of Fame last week, after four decades in the music industry. Roach, who has chronic lung disease, was breathing through a nasal cannula as he delivered a heartfelt performance of Took the Children Away, while seated centre stage in a small theatre in Warrnambool.
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Yarning Mob Keeping Country and Cultural Knowledge Alive,
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Bourke Aboriginal Elders who have been weaving during the Yarning Online OnCountry project are keen to ensure culturally and environmentally significant native vegetation remnants are preserved, and that other country is revegetated.
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Bigger, Blacker - Radio Is Back,
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Some Whitefellas once sang, "Video killed the radio star. " Nah. it didn't. That's gammin. And 98.9FM in Meanjin can prove it. Radio is back, bigger and Blacker than ever with more Blackfullas tuning into radio shows and podcasts now than we did back in the old wilus days.
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A Lifetime Dedicated to Protect Precious Water,
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Arabunna Elder Kevin Buzzacott is a man of peace, forced to fight 1 come from the Lake Eyre area in South Australia. It's an old place. an ancient place.- Uncle Key said. "Sixty thousand years can't be wrong and that's where we are coming from. We are all linked across this beautiful old country, all our brothers and sisters along the way."
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Ursula Urges Her Audience to Challenge the Status Quo,
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When singer, songwriter actor and playwright Ursula Yovich was young, she would wake up at 6am on weekends to watch ABC's music video program Rage. "I never felt that I could become a singer because that career path was not for people like me — definitely not for a small-town Aboriginal girl," she said. "I was from the kind of people that the news depicted as criminals, alcoholics, down-and-out long-grassers that needed to be removed from the city because they were an eyesore."
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