AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

As we lurch towards a possible referendum on constitutional recognition, at least one political theorist is asking some deep philosophical questions about what that actually means. The deputy vice-chancellor of research at the University of Sydney, Professor Duncan Ivison says we need to ask how an amendment to the Constitution would establish 'just relations' between Indigenous peoples and the state.

Lisa Bellear died suddenly from an unexplained heart condition ten years ago. She was many things: a poet, community radio broadcaster, social worker, activist, a survivor of the stolen generations and a dearly loved sister to her adopted family. Lisa was also a documentary photographer with a keen, critical eye and a sense of the profound and the ridiculous.

Can we teach culture? Yolngu Studies is a postgraduate course offered at Charles Darwin University to teach the aspects of culture, kinship and language. The course is a partnership between two educators - Brenda Muthamuluwuy from Galiwin'ku and Yasunori Hayashi from Tokyo.

A young filmmaker meets a Bardi elder in the Kimberley. Little did Cornel Ozies know but he'd met a law boss who held the key to unlocking the secret cultural knowledge of his own clan - the Djugun - said to have been 'virtually extinct'.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson has spent her intellectual life exploring racism and power. But it all begins in the bush on Stradbroke Island when her grandfather taught her the skill of tracking. The latest idea to grip her considerable mind is possessive logic and the way it superimposes itself on the land by denying the sovereign will of indigenous people.

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. Today, Eleanor carries the family song line with her Dad, Raymond. Together, they perform as Rayella.

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. Lyrically their songs are driven by the post-colonial theory of Frantz Fanon while musically they code-switch between grindcore, post-punk, shoegaze and metal.

Electric soul doesn't really describe the extraordinary music of Electric Fields. A collaboration between vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding from Mimili in the APY Lands and producer Michael Ross who's based in Adelaide, they produce spine-tingling electronica sung in Pitjantjatjara and English.

RN's My Place digital storytelling project is all about the meaning we derive from place and belonging. Awaye! presenter Daniel Browning is from Fingal, a sand peninsula on the far north coast of New South Wales between the Tweed River and the Pacific Ocean - a place that is pounded by king tides and battered by erosion.

Individual teams in the AFL honour the Indigenous Round by designing specific guernseys for players. This year the Port Adelaide Football Club went one better to become the first team in the competition to translate their club song into an Aboriginal language - Pitjantjatjara.