Tribal Fires - Dumbartung

This important episode of Tribal Fires merged from meeting Irish songwriters, poets story collectors and actors in Perth, Western Australia while they were in town doing their own cultural performances. Two important Nyoongah Elders brought them into Dumbartung to meet with myself and Selina for a day of cultural sharing. This podcast titled Irish Connections is a result of our meeting. This podca...

In 2017 Dumbartung toured Capetown, South Africa via the Savanna. We met officially with a number of internationally known organisations and institutions, including; The District 6 museum, Archbishop Tutu Truth centre, The king of the Khoisan nation and a tour of Robben island prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and wrote his famous autobiography - 'The long walk to freedom'. We a...

       In 2011 the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government) meeting was held in Perth, Western Australia. The Queen of England visited for the occasion. During her trip she opened the newly constructed Clontarf college boarding house. Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation is also situated on the same site. During the lead up to the visit, Dumbartung was visited on many occasions by several security or...

This episode of Tribal fires, titled ‘On The Edge’ discusses the political and cultural challenges facing the worlds Indigenous peoples, including refugees and those suffering dispossession.   This episode is a special tribute to encourage all young people of the world to unite and engage in activism in order to transform the current threats facing our planet, including, Climate Change, War and fa...

This episode is a tribute to all of our people who survived, following their lives as Stolen Generation children. We also give a tribute to their great artistic creativity, which was constantly exploited by mainstream society in return for menial rewards such as a hamburger for a masterpiece painting. This episode is extremely important for our young people to understand the history of this era an...

This episode tells the story of my experience in 1980 travelling from Broome to the Noonkanbah protests against the mining giant AMAX, drilling for oil on the sacred site of the Goanna Dreaming. The story covers the history of Dumbartungs activism in the community regarding protests and rallies for Aboriginal human and cultural rights. This includes the travesty of the Rio Tinto destruction of the...

The episode is a discussion regarding cultural appropriation, Identity Theft, and Aboriginal social issues. It is a discussion represented by the Director of Tribal Fires Mr. Robert Eggington and the retired Anthropologist of the University of Western Australia Berndt Museum Professor John Stanton. This episode is important to understand how our culture and spirituality has been nullified and poli...

This podcast is a story about traveling to Rio De Janeiro in 1988 to represent our people as a member of the National body S.N.A.I.I.C IN Brazil. It’s a three-part story about losing and then finding my didgeridoo, and then being invited after retrieving the object to meet with the great Train Robber Ronald Biggs who was hiding out in Brazil. Life on the streets in Rio De Janeiro and experiences a...

Warning this episode has a high content of racial vilification.  During the early 1990’s I was appointed as the spokesperson for the newly developed Aboriginal Visitors scheme. This scheme was one of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. The story tells of an incident whilst I was visiting a young Aboriginal man in the East Perth Lockup, I was racially vi...

This episode of Tribal Fires is when Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash visited the Dumbartung Aboriginal corporation in 1995. This story is extremely important as much was shared during these visits and both these artists are respected worldwide as creators that voiced the message of a generation.  It was a great privilege to have both these singer songwriters at Dumbartung  knowing what they heard and ex...

During 1995 the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation coordinated a world-wide campaign against an American woman ‘’New Age Author’’ named Marlo Morgan who wrote and published a book titled ‘’Mutant Message Downunder’’. This campaign was an extensive and effective process that resulted in Dumbartung unifying the Aboriginal voice across Australia and from a well-planned strategy selected six well respe...

This episode is about the early life of Robert Eggington the Director of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation. It tells of the story of his younger years , the work he came to do in the coalface of the Perth Aboriginal community, and the interview for the position at Dumbartung and concludes with the story of how he founded and created the most massive Aboriginal cultural gatherings in Perth in A...