Playlist: Fifteen songs that define

Edition 37 | 2020

Fifteen songs that define Aboriginal resistance

In no particular order, these songs define the struggles that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face daily in a colony designed to erase our existence. Among the challenges, these songs also highlight the strength, perseverance and survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We exist. We resist. We persist.

Playlist Dylan Muldari Ko:rni Peisley Artwork Tabitha Lean Please note that some of the songs may contain the names and voices of deceased peoples

Caper Baker Boy and KIAN Briggs, Dr G Yunupingu and Dewayne Everettsmith A. B. Original and Dan Sultan Archie Roach Street Warriors The Last Kinection Coloured Stone Thelma Plum Yothu Yindi Yung Warriors DOBBY and Barkaa Drmngnow and River Boy Thelma Plum A. B. Original

How Would You Like to Be Me Cloud 9 The Children Came Back

January 26 Took The Children Away Solid Rock Black & Deadly Black Boy Better in Blak Treaty Black Deaths In Custody I Can’t Breathe Indigenous Land Homecoming Queen 2 Black 2 Strong

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