Daniel Browning

Professor of Indigenous Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sydney, Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. In a 30-year media career, Daniel read news for national youth broadcaster triple j, launched a podcast on Indigenous languages, guest presented an episode of ABC TV’s The Art of... and, as the ABC’s Editor Indigenous Radio, oversaw longstanding Indigenous flagship programs Speaking Out and Awaye!, the latter of which he also presented for 15 years.

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A visual arts graduate, Daniel went on to host The Art Show on Radio National for four years and helped establish the companion news digest Arts in 30. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, which catalogues his freelance writing on the arts, as well as poetry, memoir and his first play, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2024.

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A finalist in the Walkley Foundation’s June Andrews Prize for Arts Journalism in 2024, he jointly won the inaugural Arts Journalism and Arts Criticism Prize in 2025 with ABC colleagues Rudi Bremer and Teresa Tan for their interactive ‘zoomyteller’ feature ‘The World According to Archie Moore’.

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In 2024, he was the second First Nations Writer-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Trinity Hall College. 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 next book, a double biography/memoir in the literary non-fiction genre.