The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced a tribute to the late, great Archie Roach. One Song: The Music of Archie Roach will take place during NAIDOC Week this July, with performances from Dan ...

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews used his appearance at the recent state memorial service of Archie Roach to apologise for the “extreme, inhumane acts” committed against the late Indigenous musician.

Archie Roach, the legendary Indigenous Australian artist whose song “Took the Children Away” was recognized with a Human Rights Medal, died Saturday (July 30) after a long illness. He was 66. The ...

Six months after his death at age 66, legendary Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung) and Bundjalung singer-songwriter and activist Archie Roach has been posthumously awarded a Companion of the ...

Arrernte/Gurindji singer-songwriter Dan Sultan has covered the late Archie Roach‘s monumental song ‘Took the Children Away’ as the latest entry in Mushroom Group‘s ongoing Mushroom 50 project. His ...

One day in 1970, Archie Cox’s high school English class in Melbourne, Australia, was interrupted by a voice from the intercom: “Could Archibald William Roach come to the office?” An uncanny feeling ...

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From Missy Higgins to Deborah Conway; Tim Rogers to Brian Cadd; The Australian Ballet to Tom Keneally and beyond, the Isolation Room is a place of great art and hope for a country at its time of need.

When Archie Roach was 3 or 4, welfare officers came to take him away from his family in southeastern Australia. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, and his cousins tried to hide him under a ...

As I sat at a footpath table, sipping a beer with my son, waiting for the doors to Her Majesty's Theatre next door to open, the conversation all around us was about Archie Roach and his upcoming ...

His song “Took the Children Away,” inspired by his childhood, shook Australians into confronting a grim era when their government tore apart Aboriginal families. By Alex Traub One day in 1970, Archie ...