When musician Jimmy Little was dying three years ago he made one wish to his mate and manager Graham “Buzz” Bidstrup, asking him to continue running his namesake charity, the Jimmy Little Foundation.

“As he got sicker, he asked me, ‘You’re not going to let this go, are you?’,” Mr Bidstrup said.

“I promised him that I would keep running it as long as I’m here.”

Now a withdrawal of federal government funding has put a cloud over the future of the charity, which has launched a number of successful health programs in Aboriginal communities around Australia over the past decade. Read the full story here