Rudi Bremer

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Rudi Bremer

On a crisp Sunday morning in May 2000, a crowd of around 250,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. At the head, Elders wrapped in woollen blankets travelled in golf carts, while more and more people poured out of North Sydney and Milsons Point train stations — a continual unfurling of the crowd's serpentine body heading for Darling Harbour's Tumbalong Park. Warning: The following contains names and images of First Nations people who have died.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Rhianna Patrick |Rudi Bremer

On 28th May 2000, an estimated 250,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to support reconciliation. It was the largest demonstration in Australia’s history in an age before social media, before it was possible to put a call out to thousands of people with the click of a button. But how did it come together?

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Rudi Bremer

It’s been 25 years since Corroboree 2000 and the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk but the memory still lives large. Journalist Rhianna Patrick looks back to that weekend in May with Professor Jackie Huggins, Belza Lowah, Karen Mundine, Vicki Scott and Brian Aarons to see how it came about and consider whether we could ever do it again. Plus for Word Up, Brooke Wandin shares the Woiwurrung word for 'unmarried man'. This episode was a collaboration between Awaye and the National Indigenous Radio Service.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Rudi Bremer

At 36 years-old Kulkalaig woman Tishiko King embodies a powerful intersection of worlds,marine biologist, climate justice defender, and advocate for Traditional Owners in Zenadth Kes, theTorres Strait. She’s launching a documentary about Sea Country known in her language as Malu Lag. Tishiko’s advocacy emerges from one of the most climate-vulnerable regions, where rising seas are threatening homes and a way of life that connects generations of Torres Strait Islanders to their ancestors.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Rudi Bremer

Guided by Mirning goonminyerra wisdom, Bunna Lawrie the founder and front man of Coloured Stone,  brings his spiritual connection to Country to the Sydney Opera House on May 14, where he will be sharing the stage with his children -  Jason Lee Scott, Jhindu-Pedro, Lawrie, Yirgjhilya Lawrie and Catherine Satour, in a rare family performance that promises to blend cultural heritage with musical legacy. Find out more about the Generations and Dynasties program at the Sydney Opera House here.