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Fanny Cochrane Smith was our first Aboriginal recording artist

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Fanny Cochrane Smith was our first Aboriginal recording artist

In 1899 and 1903, Australia's first Aboriginal 'recording star' Fanny Cochrane Smith leaned into the brass trumpet of the Edison phonograph and sang about flowers and birds in her language of Pakana.

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Indigenous women connect families across the Kimberley to NDIS

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Indigenous women connect families across the Kimberley to NDIS

In the vast, remote lands that occupy the northern most part of Western Australia, a group of Indigenous women are helping other local women to support their children through a unique NDIS program. 

The program launched early last year, helping to connect families to NDIS and community supports for young children who live with disability or developmental delay.

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