AWAYE! - Separate stories podcast

Earlier this year, Tiwi Island band B2M (Bathurst to Melville) toured the Indonesian provinces of East Nusa Tengarra (NTT) and Timor-Leste. They came home with a deep connection to the people there, finding many similarities in culture and landscape.

Beyond Unaipon is a two-part series delving into the new genres being explored by Indigenous authors: everything from horror to sci-fi. What does the next wave of Indigenous writers have in store for us?

The Big Walk is a way for the community to revitalise culture while keeping people physically and mentally healthy and looking after the environment as well.People from Kintore, Mt Liebig, Papunya and Haast’s Bluff went on the 10 day walk and told stories in language and in English, along the 75 kilometre trek.

This year Bangarra turns 25 and to celebrate, they pay tribute to the people on whose land they've been creating their works for so long.

Marlene Cummins was a poor, uneducated teenager when she joined the now-iconic Brisbane chapter of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s. After more than 30 years, Marlene breaks her silence about that era in a new documentary, “Black Panther Woman”.

A real treat this week: Pulitzer prize-winning author and human rights activist, Alice Walker in conversation with Caroline Baum ... and she's joined on stage by the magnificent Archie Roach.

The extraordinary success of the West Indies cricket team in the 1960-61 series is remembered in the third novel from Adelaide based author, Jared Thomas.

For close to twenty years, Koorie artist Kelly Koumalatsos has been exhibiting her sculptures, paintings and printmaking work. In the development of her latest exhibition Wuregwurung: Speaking Together Koumalatsos sifted through Museum Victoria’s historical photographic archive, uncovering images to interpret in a modern way.

In the APY lands in northern South Australia, traditional health knowledge is alive and well, and working in a contemporary setting.

“For our community of around 200 people there is one general store, one school, no mobile phone range and little access to the internet. But Ikuntji is much more than the town itself – it’s the rocky hills, the red earth, the country of our Dreaming, our grandfathers’ country.”