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Listen carefully

July 10, 2008
The Age, Australia

New Awaye! host Daniel Browning keeps Aboriginal stories on air. By Larry
Schwartz.

BEFORE airing a series of highlights to celebrate its 15th anniversary this
month, Radio National's indigenous arts and culture program took steps to
protect some listeners.

"I think it is the single most complex issue," Awaye! presenter Daniel Browning
says of the protocols to get permission from relatives before repeating
programs featuring voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have
died.

The program takes its name from a word in the Arrente language of central
Australia meaning "listen up". It was initiated by the show's first presenter,
Alice Springs-based journalist Clayton Lewis in 1993.

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