Awaye!

Indigenous Art and Culture
Radio National - Fridays at 1pm and repeated Sundays at 6pm

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Tooloyn Koortakay - the revival of a lost tradition 9 December 2005
The Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia once had a long tradition of making cloaks from possum skins. This week on Awaye! we hear how a group of culture-proud Koori women is attempting to revive the tradition, using extremely rare examples from the nineteenth century as templates. Also, we meet Rosie Barkus, the self-taught textile artist, who's just been appointed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.

Speaking Out!

Culture, lifestyle and political issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia
ABC Local Radio - Sunday nights at 9.30pm

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Higher Expectations Sunday 11 December
Listen to the program using Real Player or Windows MediaNoel Pearson's idea of sending Aboriginal children away to elite boarding schools has its supporters and critics. This week Karen Dorante talks to some keen supporters, Aboriginal students from Cape York communities.

Indigenous Content on ABC Radio

November 2005

• Street Stories - Guarding The Murray Mouth  (2 November 2005)
  Tom Trevorrow and his older brother George are traditional Ngarandjerri men who have made it their life’s work to pass on an understanding of their land to all Australians.

October 2005

• ABC Central Australia - The women dance at Yuendumu  (20 October 2005)
  The abstract aboriginal paintings that hang on the walls of galleries, homes and boardrooms around the world are just the most recent manifestation of designs that can be seen in the dust, on the clapping sticks and painted on the bodies of indigenous people.
• Life Matters - Indigenous Truancy  (18 October 2005)
  The headlines have been screaming: “Parents of black truants to lose cash” – above stories about how indigenous parents could lose Centrelink payments if their children don’t turn up to school.
• ABC Central Australia - New art centre at Yuendumu  (17 October 2005)
  While the country comes up green on red after the recent rains, inside the Yuendumu art centre you'll find a world filled with pinks, oranges, purples and yellows.
• ABC North Coast NSW - Wollumbin festival celebrates Mount Warning  (14 October 2005)
  This weekends Wollumbin Festival, being held at the Tyalgum showground, is anticipated to be the largest in the events five year history with between three and four thousand people expected to attend.
• ABC Southern Queensland - Funding first-class education for Indigenous youth Alice Plate, (11 October 2005)
  A national scholarship program has been established to help indigenous children attend high achieving private schools.
• ABC South West Vic - Historian defends claim of Victoria's first Aboriginal massacre near Portland Kirsty Bradmore, (11 October 2005)
  Having argued historical accounts of massacres of Tasmanian Aboriginals were wrong or exaggerated, historian Keith Windschuttle is now taking aim at the historical account of Victoria's first ever recorded massacre of Aboriginal people.
• ABC Northern Territory - Changes to Land Rights in the NT, a garbage sandwich or a good idea?  (10 October 2005)
  Central Land Council David Ross has described changes to the Northern Territory Land Rights act as 'a garbage sandwich' that takes the control away from Aboriginal people.
• ABC South Australia - Coorong culture stays strong despite environmental pressures Jack Kerr, (7 October 2005)
  Aboriginal culture is alive and well on the Coorong, even if the land, water and wildlife there is in distress.
• ABC Central Australia - More jobs for Indigenous people?  (6 October 2005)
  The change of ownership of the popular Yeperenye shopping centre in Alice Springs should provide a boon for the Indigenous community and job opportunities for those willing to work in retail.
• ABC Wide Bay Qld - Feed the dolphins? Face a fine Liam Fox, Simon Cullen & Alan Hubbard, (6 October 2005)
  A Tin Can Bay cafe owner says he'll keep feeding dolphins, despite a State Government ban.
• ABC Northern Territory - Uluru welcomes back an old friend Emma Haskin, (5 October 2005)
  It's always an impressive sight to see Uluru come to life as the sun gently rises in the eastern sky.
• ABC Victoria - Try our wattle seed cream recipe!  (4 October 2005)
  Mark Olive's recipe from the Statewide Drive 'high tea' at the ABC Gardening Australia festival.

September 2005

• Life Matters - Reunion at Renwick  (30 September 2005)
  In the 1870s, a huge orphanage was the only option for children without parents.
• ABC Queensland - Country musician Troy Cassar-Daley  (26 September 2005)
  There are few genuinely top blokes in the cut-throat music biz.