Past Programs
Galleries, Libraries and Museums - 2008
Casting shadows
25/10/2008
In the history of representation, Aboriginal people have been defined by the colonial gaze - from ethnographic photographs to film - into a shadow of our selves. Today we present a talk by Dr Romaine Moreton on the Aboriginal self through the Western eye. She says through film, Aboriginal people are confronting and splitting the colonial gaze.
Dr Romaine Moreton, a Goernpil woman whose family hail from Stradbroke Island, spoke at the Black2Blak 2 conference held in tandem with The Premier State, an exhibition at the Campbelltown Arts Centre featuring Aboriginal artists from across New South Wales.
Also, the lawyer Terri Janke explains why we need a national authority with statutory powers to protect Indigenous cultural rights, from intellectual copyright to traditional knowledge.
And we meet Graeme Talbot Junior, the young ranger from the Northern Territory who's been nominated for Young Apprentice of the Year.
Big heart: a tribute to Dr Marika
28/06/2008
The senior Rirratjingu clanswoman who died suddenly and prematurely last month has been remembered as a protector of Yolngu culture and a tenacious fighter for the right of Yolngu to speak their own language in tandem with English, a way of thinking known as 'both-ways' education. We pay special tribute to this great Yolngu educator, linguist, translator and public intellectual.
Awaye! has obtained permission to broadcast excerpts from the memorial service to Dr Marika held recently in her community of Yirrkala.
Also in this program, we sit down in Darwin with the new chief executive of the Northern Land Council, Kim Hill. He has a big job ahead of him trying to act in the best interests of traditional owners across northern Australia. But the former ATSIC Commissioner says he has no magic potion.
And the artist Vernon Ah Kee talks about Aboriginal beauty in his portraiture.
My activist grandfather
05/04/2008
It was the first political organisation to represent the interests of Aboriginal people, but the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association has long been forgotten. Now, Professor John Maynard has produced For Liberty and Freedom, a history of the AAPA and its founder, Fred Maynard.
John Maynard joins us to talk about his activist grandfather.
Also, the writer Sharon Ennis muses about identity, self-loathing and internal racism. And we go to the opening of 'Lines in the Sand', an exhibition which features the work of Daniel Boyd.
Marcia Langton: a new agenda for Indigenous relations
15/03/2008
We present a talk by Professor Marcia Langton, who's just written an essay for the Griffith Review in which she argues that the everyday suffering of Aboriginal people has become a kind of visual and intellectual pornography.
Also today, writers from Australia, New Zealand and Canada talk about their craft. Anita Heiss and Briar Grace-Smith talk about Indigenous identity in a multicultural world and young hip hop artists, Manik 1derful, Simon Reese and Chillie give a sample of their beatbox sound mixed with Canadian Indian influences.
