AWAYE!
Awaye! means 'listen up' in the Arrernte language of central Australia. It is produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. It covers music (from the yidaki and gumleaf to techno), arts, spirituality, politics, dance, literature and theatre. Awaye! is also a showcase for features and documentaries produced by indigenous people overseas, including Maori, Polynesian, native American and South African broadcasters.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-10-31 No Place Like Home
Published: 2009-10-30 10:00:00Tony Albert is one of Australia´s most collectable artists. His latest series of work No Place Like Home is at least partly inspired by the Wizard of Oz, incorporating a pair of glittery Adidas sneakers, Mexican wrestling masks and riot photography. Also we go backstage with the vocal harmony group Freshwater and hear an excerpt from the manuscript that´s won the prestigious David Unaipon Award, a baldly cynical work of fiction about race politics in Queensland.
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2009-10-24 Will to Live (part 2)
Published: 2009-10-23 10:00:00Last year in Adelaide leading scholars from around the world joined with Aboriginal health workers to try and find a pathway for health equality to be achieved within a generation. But while Indigenous health workers welcomed the Federal Government's commitment to Close the Gap, many remain sceptical. This week in part two of 'Will to Live', our series on Indigenous Health, Tony Collins talks to academics and health workers at the coalface who are all trying to find solutions to Australia's biggest health crisis.
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2009-10-17 Will to Live (part 1)
Published: 2009-10-16 10:00:00The global movement to bring about health equality within a generation led in Australia to a grass roots campaign to Close The Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy. The campaign achieved bi-partisan support from Parliament and a 1.6 billion dollar commitment from the Rudd government. The question that remains is how to do it. In today's program, the first of a two-part series on Indigenous health, Tony Collins talks to a range of health workers and academics who are looking for the answer.
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2009-10-10 Albert's gift (part 2) - The pathfinder
Published: 2009-10-09 10:00:00On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, we reflect on the life and art of Albert Namatjira. A critical revision of Namatjira's work is underway but has the popular mythology of his life obscured his art and deprived him of his proper place in the Australian landscape tradition? [This program was first broadcast on 29 September 2006]
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