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Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir will be embarking on a national tour across Australia in 2025. This will be their biggest tour since they last performed across the East Coast in 2022.

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The band used an ableist slur to diss the vice president while performing its 2004 song "Jesus of Suburbia" at a recent concert in Melbourne.

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