Due to unforeseen circumstances, Rhianna Patrick will be replacing Alec Doomadgee for the 1pm session in Angel’s Palace, Aboriginal Storytelling.
What is Aboriginal storytelling? Learn and explore the Aboriginal approach to telling stories and their importance to culture.
During her 15 years with the ABC, Rhianna Patrick has worked across triple j news, television documentaries, RN and co-hosted an aviation podcast. She’s the former presenter of ABC Radio’s national Indigenous programme, Speaking Out. Rhianna currently presents a national show which is named after her (or #ABCRhi for short) every Sunday night across ABC Radio.
A member of the Wakka Wakka nation, Dr Sandra R. Phillips is a respected academic, researcher, editor, and former publisher. Currently lecturing in communication and publishing studies at QUT Creative Industries, Sandra’s research interests are in Indigenous story and its publishing, its readership, and its communities of practice. Once Deputy Chair of the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council, Sandra has held many leadership roles in the arts and culture sector.
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. She is renowned as the author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, and of a previous work of non-fiction Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory. Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, India, and France. She is a Distinguished Fellow in Western Sydney University’s Writing and Society Research Centre. Her new book of non-fiction is Tracker Tilmouth, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker and entrepreneur who died in Darwin in 2015.
