As Darwin prepares for the National Indigenous Fashion Awards, Country to Couture runway show, and the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Michelle Maynard explains how "a little showcase in the back of the hall" has grown into Australia's premier platform for Indigenous fashion.

Plus, it's National Poetry Month and to celebrate emerging poet Maggie Knight-Williams discusses how poetry can be both weapon and balm, transforming pain into power through that cheeky, kitchen-table storytelling.

And for Word Up, Neenah Gray shares her father’s language — Darumbal.