In Episode 5 of The Intersection, we make it into the 21st Century. Millennium Blues looks at that fraught period in Australia – Howard, Hanson, Tampa, 9/11, War on Terror, a rise in xenophobia and a backlash against First Nations’ people’s claims to justice. In particular we look at a 2003 song from Sydney hiphop band The Herd which addressed these issues in the most emphatic of ways.

Playlist

The Herd: 77%

 Unkle Ho: Spaghetti Eastern 

 Pasobionic: Empty Beat

 Pasobionic: Echoes of Blue

 Combat Wombat: Asylum

 Naretha Willaims: Chaos Country 

 The Herd: I Was Only 19

  Jane Tyrrell: Echoes In The Aviery 

 Sampa The Great: Final Form

 AB Original: January 26

 Ziggy Ramo: April 25

 Barkaa: Our Lives Matter

 Jalal Mahamede and Keyna Wilkins: Set Me Free