AWAYE! brings you diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia.

AWAYE! brings you diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia.

In the final episode of Awaye for 2025, Rudi Bremer and co-host Marcus Wright reflect back on a huge year for Blak art in Australia.

Plus we hear from some friends of Awaye and the art that has moved, changed or transformed them this year. 

And for Word Up Dr Jesse Hodgetts shares the Wangaaypuwan word for unity. 

Burlesque performer Bizzi Body has been researching the history of Blak burlesque. 

It's a journey that's led her to leg shows, nightclubs, and Aunty Veronica Barnett — a living legend who swallowed fire, charmed pythons and shimmied her away across 1960s nightclub stages from Brisbane to Tahiti.

Artistic director Tony Albert gives a guided tour of the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia.

Discover the major survey Super Kaylene Whiskey at the National Portrait Gallery, with over 80 works of paintings, video, and installations, where tradition meets the dancefloor and pop icons walk on Country.

Then head to the Museum of Contemporary Art where BARKAA took home the inaugural NSW First Nations Music Prize.

And for Word Up Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves shares one more word in Warlpiri.

For thirty-seven years Lorna and Ron Haines have been searching for answers about their brother’s death.

As they prepared to attend the final days of the most recent inquest, the siblings sit down for an intimate conversation about what it means to endure an inquest decades after losing someone you love. 

And how that loss can ripple through families and generations when the system fails.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully advised that this episode contains the names and voices of people who have died. It also includes content that may cause distress. 

Yurlu | Country's director Yaara Bou Melhem and Banjima Traditional Owner Janelle Parker, share how they made a film about environmental devastation that's ultimately about love, resilience, and hope.

Then head to the waterways of the Royal National Park in Sydney's south with Uncle Dean Kelly where platypus are breeding for the first time in decades.

And for Word Up, Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves from Yuendumu shares more of his language – Warlpiri.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this episode includes the names of people who have died.

You know the headlines—the million-dollar paintings, the forgeries that made him the most faked Aboriginal artist in the world. But who was Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, really?

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Uluru Handback with Anangu Elders and artists including Alison Caroll and Rene Kulitja. 

Then meet singer-songwriter Sue Ray, whose deep, captivating voice and authentic storytelling has earned her three Queensland Music Awards and recognition across the alt- country scene.

Plus for Word Up, Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves from Yuendumu shares the phrase for "ceasefire / no guns" as part of his campaign to protect his community.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this story contains the names and voice of Indigenous people who have died.