Cirrus@Austlit

(Introduction)

'This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer.' 

'Alongside conversations with the likes of the late Archie Roach, Doris Pilkington, and Vernon Ah Kee, the book contains a series of critical essays displaying Browning’s talent as an Australian cultural critic and public intellectual. A range of previously unpublished poetry, memoir, art writing and play script is also presented, highlighting his vulnerable and passionate creative side in its own right (Publication summary)  

'A few years ago, Noongar musician Clint Bracknell heard one of the catchiest hooks ever.'

'Throughout her career, artist Julie Gough has shone light on Tasmania’s colonial history and the genocidal war against Aboriginal people, including her ancestors. With a major solo exhibition at TMAG, Tense Past, she speaks about her remarkable work. “Art is not only a visual outcome; making each artwork is my way of proceeding through the quagmire of the past.”' (Introduction)

 (Article summary)

Daniel Browning interviews Boori Monty Pryor about his ABC web series, Wrong Kind of Black. 

'"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"

'This is the opening line of Alexis Wright's book Tracker, which has won the 2018 Stella Prize for Australian women's writing.' (Introduction)

'Word Up shares the diverse languages of black Australia from Anmatyerre to Arrernte, from Bidjara to Bundjalung, from Nyungar to Ngaanyatjarra, from Yankunytjatjara to Yorta Yorta—one word at a time.'

(Source : ABC)

Megan Cope interrogates the certification of Aboriginality in her new film work The Blaktism. The artist is at the centre of a transformative quasi-religious but absurdist ritual where a host of Australian stereotypes perform a 'blaktism'.

Documentary filmmaker Steve McGregor in his latest film Croker Island Exodus follows the story of 95 Aboriginal children and their missionary carers who embarked on a cross-continent journey - a journey to safety from Japanese warplanes and the bombing of Darwin.(Source: RadioNational Awaye website: www.abc.net.au)

He's been described as an Aboriginal prophet - an extraordinary man who dreamt of self-determination, of independent homelands, of rights and political freedom for his countrymen and women and who fought a long, personal war against racism and settler colonialism. (Source: Awaye! website: www.abc.net.au)