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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always found guidance, connection and answers in the stars.
In honour Science Week -- which this week ask us to look to the night sky -- Dr Krystal De Napoli and Peter Swanton discuss some of the astrophysical events witnessed by our ancestors.
Then, Aunty Ruth Ghee is helping translate an incredible feat of endurance into a musical for Opera Queensland.
It’s called Straight from the Strait and she’ll explain how she’s paying homage to a group of remarkable Torres Strait Islanders working on the Mount Newman railway construction project in the 1960s.
Plus, Christine Anu shares some more of her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.
By ABC Australia4.3
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always found guidance, connection and answers in the stars.
In honour Science Week -- which this week ask us to look to the night sky -- Dr Krystal De Napoli and Peter Swanton discuss some of the astrophysical events witnessed by our ancestors.
Then, Aunty Ruth Ghee is helping translate an incredible feat of endurance into a musical for Opera Queensland.
It’s called Straight from the Strait and she’ll explain how she’s paying homage to a group of remarkable Torres Strait Islanders working on the Mount Newman railway construction project in the 1960s.
Plus, Christine Anu shares some more of her maternal grandfather’s language – Kala Kawa Ya.

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