Cirrus@Austlit

'Tears, anger and regret filled the room when AFL players - indigenous and other - watched screenings of the Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter. Indigenous players were given a private screening of the film during a pre-season camp in February. The film details the final three years of Goodes' career using archival footage and premiers next week at the Sydney Film Festival.' (Introduction)

'Uncle Jack Charles is a national treasure. And now he's been presented with the prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2019 National Indigenous Arts Awards along with Pakana shell artist Aunty Lola Greeno.' (Introduction)

'This Sorry Day, Uncle Murray Harrison (80) reflects on is removal and separation from his family in 1948 as a ten year old boy.' 

'Dr Bill Jonas was a geographer and public intellectual of national significance. He was a proud Worimi man who was born in Sydney and grew up on his Country in the small town of Allworth, near Karuah north of Newcastle. He was the first Aboriginal person to be awarded a PhD (UPNG 1980), and Australia's second Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. He advocated passionately for social justice, protection of Aboriginal heritage, improvements in Aboriginal education, Indigenous and human rights and reconciliation. He was a treasured friend, teacher and mentor. ' (Introduction)

'Under the banner of the Knowledge Industry Network, the performances are intended to place First Nations voices first and provide authority to determine 'our narratives, presented our way'. They were Night River by Mark Coles Smith, his first work as musical alias Kalaji, Daddy by Joel Bray, The Honouring by Mark Sheppard and Blood Quantum - a mother/daughter dance and narrative piece by Professor Tracey Bunda and Ngioka Bunda-Heath.' (Introduction)

'Gunai woman and poet Kirli Saunders has released her debut collection of poetry in a new book, Kindred, published by Magabala Books.' (Introduction)

'Worimi woman Genevieve Grieves and Noonuccal Nuugi man Wesley Enoch have become new members of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) Board.' (Introduction)

'When she was young, Dunghutti woman and film maker Darlene Johnson said the cinema was her baby sitter when her mother was cleaning.' (Introduction)