Past Programs
Comedy and Humour - 2008
Intervention blues
19/04/2008
You'd be forgiven for thinking the Commonwealth intervention had reached into the north-western New South Wales town of Walgett, where youth allowance and Abstudy payments can be quarantined under a scheme designed to lift school attendance rates.
Nick McClean travels to Walgett to hear from parents and elders.
Also, we sit down with Jacinta Numina, a printmaker whose work is inspired by the awelye, or ceremonial body lines.
Something from the vault - the sparkling wit Anita Heiss performs her poem 'Token Koori' and we replay a speech the writer Alice Walker gave to a literary conference in New York in 1984, after her novel 'The Colour Purple' won the Pulitzer Prize.
Auriel Andrew live at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival
02/02/2008
Auriel Andrew has been described as "the sex kitten of Aboriginal country music". She even once performed for the Pope. Auriel talks about her early life spent in the outback to becoming the first Aboriginal woman to sing live on television.
We also hear about 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word', her unlikely collaboration with country and western cabaret performer Tina C, who Auriel describes as a cross between Dame Edna Everage and Mary G.
