AustLit

'Young Murri boy Quaden Bayles' fight against bullying was recognised last weekend by earning him the Dreamtime Awards Person of the Year Award.'

'Imagine if all First Nations people from around the world stood together — we'd be too strong." That's a message playwrights Nathan Maynard and Jamie McCaskill hope audiences will take away from Hide the Dog, an adventurous trans-Tasman creation that opens at the Sydney Festival in January. The play tells the story of a palawa girl Niarra and Maori boy Te Umuroa trying to save a Tasmanian tiger they have found by taking it across the ocean to Aotearoa in a hybrid palawa/Maori canoe. '

'AUSTRALIA'S first Indigenous senior counsel Tony McAvoy has argued that the national anthem should be replaced by one written by the likes of Dan Sultan and Paul Kelly. The top barrister has weighed into the ongoing debate over the anthem, which sparked up again when the Wallabies Rugby team sang along to a version of the anthem in the Eora language.'  
 

'Aboriginal woman and producer from the Yuin nation Fran Dobbie wants Australia's film and entertainment industry to acknowledge and respect the Aboriginal lands they work on. Fran would like to see a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony before any future production begins. "You can't just come barrelling in onto someone else's country just because you're a big film producer from Sydney," Fran said. '

'When award-winning Bundjalung writer Melissa Lucashenko  noticed a friend was going through severe trauma, she wondered if there was something she could do to help others in a similar situation.'