Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal writer, journalist, and radio broadcaster. Currently, he is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Editor Indigenous Radio overseeing longstanding flagship programs Awaye! and Speaking Out. A visual arts graduate, Daniel also presents The Art Show podcast and is a widely published freelance writer on the arts and culture. In 2024, his first book Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The collection ranges across his published work in journalism, art and cultural criticism and memoir, as well as unpublished poetry and his first attempt at playwriting. In 2023, he was the first Laureate to undertake the galang First Nations Residency Program at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, where he began researching his current literary project, Returning the Colonial Gaze, a double biography/narrative transnational history/memoir in the literary non-fiction genre. Daniel belongs to the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of northern NSW and south-western Queensland.