Podcasts

Tune in this week for the second instalment of Let’s Talk – Black Culture with Raymond Walker (Bing Nunka). As we heard last week, Raymond is a Quandamooka songman and youth justice worker who has worked alongside his family and community to keep culture and language alive for decades.

Last week, we joined Elizabeth and Raymond as they reflected on the ongoing work of re-connecting and revitalising their culture: from kinship lore, to song and dance, ceremony and law, and custodial ethics.

Today, Elizabeth & Raymond pick up right where they left off last week, reflecting on the power of rebuilding and honouring Black cultural practices and the powerful lessons that this process of reconnection and revitalisation has left. They talk about their own family’s experiences of ensuring that cultural reclamation and revitalisation is done in the right ways, governed by an ethic of custodianship and care. We learn about the profound power and importance of learning from and centering the experiences and insights of community Elders; recognising that their cultural, political, legal, and ecological understanding offers the greatest gift for the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are yet to come. And we are offered the reminder that perhaps the greatest responsibility for young people in this present moment is to listen, record, and absorb the lessons offered by their Elders; to learn the lessons of past strategies and find new ways to rebuild, re-connect, and re-vitalise culture, country, and community.