AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

Wiradjuri man Jason O'Neil shares three words that describe the break of day, a way of living that's like a moral code and a term of farewell.

Vernon Ah Kee's major solo exhibition Not An Animal Or A Plant might have been a retrospective.

For Lou Bennett, the power of language is not so much in individual words but in the phrase.

Every year, students from the University of Melbourne head up the Hume Highway bound for Yorta Yorta country - and a classroom that has no walls.

Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy says the ABC has forgotten remote communities with its decision to cut shortwave radio services.

Imagine you're stranded on a remote outstation in the wet season. Your car is bogged and you're running low on food. Then, the unthinkable happens.

The idea was simple enough: pick a word from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander language and explain why it defies English translation.

Aboriginal English terms like country, deadly and gammon are part of the wider Australian vernacular. The term 'country' is a startling example of how the Aboriginal use of English has deepened the meaning of some words.

How do you make sense of a massacre? That's precisely the question First Nations artists from Australia and Canada had to confront when they were invited to make new work for an exhibition 200 years after the Appin massacre, south-west of Sydney.

Katie Beckett was raised by her father after her mother died in a head-on collision. It resonates in her play Which Way Home, which unfolds on a road trip from Ipswich to Goodooga in outback New South Wales.