RESISTANCE IS NOW: A.B.ORIGINAL FIRST INDIGENOUS WINNERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC PRIZE
In a time of resistance and protest around the world, the Australian Music Prize has been awarded to an indigenous duo whose album is a raised middle finger to a complacent middle Australia. Reclaim Australia, by hip hop duo A.B Original - Yorta Yorta man Briggs and Ngarrindjeri man Trials - is an angry, funny, plainspoken and brutal take on racism, police behaviour, political doublespeak and what it means to be something other than white, safe and in power. Taking its name b