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Ten years ago, Dan Sultan's Blackbird album burst onto the scene with heavy guitar riffs, rock and soul melodies infused lyrics of identity and love.

To celebrate, Dan Sultan is taking to the Hamer Hall stage with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for a special performance to coincide with the start of NAIDOC Week.

Guest: Wenlei Ma, culture editor, The Nightly 




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On Wednesday, federal, state and territory governments will meet virtually, at a special National Cabinet meeting on gender violence.

There have been questions over whether gender violence should be treated similarly to terrorism, and while Minister for Youth and victim-survivor Anne Aly says there is a legal difference: "I think it’s important to recognise that for the women who are being terrorised, it is very much violence, terrorism, control," she said.

Victoria's premier Jacinta Allan is the first Australian leader of a state or territory government to appear before an Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry.

But the appearance was peppered with questions about what long-standing change will come as a result of the historic moment, or will it all amount to being "another day in the colony"?

The Prime Minister has touched down in Alice Springs, weeks after a youth curfew thrust the town into the spotlight.

An increasing number of people around the world are switching from smart phones to so-called 'dumb phones'. And one person leading the disconnect revolution is filmmaker Alex Lykos.