AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

Blood is both a substance and a metaphor in a new dance theatre work by Jacob Boehme - the partly autobiographical Blood on the Dance Floor.

The protagonist of ABC TV’s Cleverman is not the first Aboriginal superhero. In the comic universe there’s the mystical Gateway, the dreadlocked Manifold and Batman’s deputy The Dark Ranger who masquerades as a tattoo artist from Saint Kilda.

Aboriginal genetic history goes deep - but in some ways, it exists on a hair's breadth.

When Eleanor Dixon was growing up in the homeland community of Marlinja she drew inspiration from a line of strong women who passed on the family tradition of song from campfire to gospel choir.

Music is a weapon - just ask Sydney post-colonial death metal three-piece Dispossessed, who fuse rage and idealism with a global perspective on race, power and colonialism.

Electric soul doesn't really describe the extraordinary music of Electric Fields. The independent two-piece produce spine-tingling electronica sung in Pitjantjatjara and English.

Unlike hundreds of unidentified Aboriginal human remains we know precisely where Mungo Man came from. So why has it taken so long for this revered ancestor to be repatriated to his country?

Language workers Dwayne Newry and Jimmy Paddy share some words from the Miriwoong language spoken around Kununurra in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Alick Tipoti is perhaps the most renowned artist from the Torres Strait working today. One of his traditionally inspired masks has been put on permanent display in the British Museum.

Jared Thomas is one of the busiest authors around. This year he's released one novel while adapting another for the screen, and working with pro-basketball player Patrick Mills on a three-book series for a major publishing house.