AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

A panther stalks the imaginary landscape in the magic realism of Evelyn Araluen's award-winning short story about Aboriginal country and the metaphysical world.

What sets Indigenous drag apart from straight, white, mainstream drag?

Despite what you may think, Aboriginal design is not speculative. We ask a panel including two architects, a furniture designer and an urban planner to flesh out some concrete examples of blak design.

Language teacher Tracey Cameron explains how stargazing - and a constellation in the night sky - helped the Gamilaraay people in the hunt for food.

When A.B. Original won the Australian Music Prize, a Murdoch press hack couldn't help themselves - tweeting the least controversial thing about the album.

For stand-ip comedian Josh Warrior, nothing is sacred - his vision impairment, his kids and the missteps of fatherhood. And he reckons you're missing something if you can't have a good laugh at yourself.

The Dharug language covers much of greater and western Sydney and it gives us some distinctive place names that might be familiar: Parramatta, Yagoona and Wahroonga for example.

How do we define Australian art - and what are its borders? And where do we situate the practice of Indigenous artists in a national context?

We meet a teacher who shares some Guugu Yimithirr - the Aboriginal language that gives us the word kangaroo.

In just sheer weight of numbers of performances and events, Melbourne's Indigenous-led Yirramboi is - to all intents and purposes - a major arts festival.