Women prisoners team up with Midnight Oil to record songs in language

Midnight Oil and Troy Cassar-Daley at the Enmore Theatre, in Sydney, Thursday, February 25, 2021.

Midnight Oil and Troy Cassar-Daley at the Enmore Theatre, in Sydney, Thursday, February 25, 2021. Source: AAP

A group of Aboriginal women prisoners in Western Australia have teamed up with Australian rock band Midnight Oil to perform songs in traditional language. The women translated the lyrics of one of the band's biggest hits into Ngaanyatjarra Western Desert language.



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