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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 31 July 2022 of The Guardian Australia est. 2013 The Guardian Australia
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Archie Roach Obituary, Robin Denselow , single work obituary

'Archie Roach, who has died aged 66, was an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and writer, whose most famous song, Took the Children Away, described his own painful life story – and in the process helped to educate Australians about one of the darkest chapters in their history. It won him two Aria awards (Australia’s equivalent of a Grammy) and an International Human Rights Achievement award, and established him as one of Australia’s most distinctive and celebrated performers, who would tour alongside Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg and Patti Smith.' (Introduction)
‘Big Tree down’ : Archie Roach Remembered as a Truth-teller, Healer and First Nations Champion, Christopher Knaus , single work obituary

'The Indigenous Australian songwriter and activist Archie Roach has been praised as a “courageous” and “powerful” truth-teller, as leading figures in politics and the arts mourn his passing.'
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