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Casey Donovan has sung her way into the hearts of a nation and become our Idol in the process. At just 16 years of age, she won Australian Idol, had a number one single, and launched her own album. From the Message Stick series.
Aunty Beryl is a respected Elder of the Redfern community. She is a great advocate for providing opportunities for young Indigenous people in particular, those who had been long term unemployed and for whom ongoing work or a career seemed impossible. Her own life has been one of transformation since she first came to Redfern in the fifties. Now in her mid-seventies she’s imparting her knowledge and skills to mentor her students who are often long term unemployed and often with little schooling, into stable work and ultimately careers.
Travel to the Torres Strait Islands to meet Australia's oldest ARIA award winner, the irrepressible Seaman Dan. The popular musician takes us on a personal journey around his tropical island home and he introduces us to the wonderful world of 'hula jazz'. From the Message Stick series.
Stories of our country by our Elders. Elders to be interviewed on country and reminisce, whether about a dreamtime story or a birthing place area, or a memory of the old homestead and/or mission, this is about our elders sharing their memories and country.
People deal with grief in different ways and in Torres Strait Island culture, a tombstone opening and unveiling symbolises the point where sorrow meets happiness. In this documentary, ABC Radio National broadcaster Nancia Guivarra takes us to her grandfather's tombstone opening in Cairns to join her family's ceremony and the celebrations that mark the end of their mourning period. From the Message Stick series.
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