Tiga and Amy kick off the programme speaking to the 2015 Young Environmentalist of the Year Amelia Telford, a 21-year-old Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman from Tweed Heads. Amelia is also the founder and national director of Seed, the Indigenous climate action network (www.seedmob.org.au).
We also are joined by Human Rights Law Centre lawyer Ruth Barson, who has written to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Her concerns follow a report by the Northern Territory’s Children’s Commissioner Dr Howard Bath into the Don Dale Detention Centre in Darwin. Dr Bath found teenagers at the centre had been tear gassed in their cells, had hoods placed over their heads, and some were held in solitary confinement for longer than 17 days.