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Let’s Talk
WEEKDAYS 9 – 10am
National Indigenous current affairs program, focusing on issues of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Broadcast locally and nationally through the National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS), the program features interviews and discussions that inform, educate and engage audiences on key community, cultural, and social issues.
Let’s Talk Business is proudly sponsored by the University of Queensland.
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Professor Lester Irabinna Rigney
Tiga Bayles talks to Professor Lester Irabinna Rigney, Dean of Aboriginal Education at Adelaide University, about the review into higher education and ways to address poor educational outcomes for First Nations Australians. File Download (49:43 min / 28.5 MB)
Listen >>Tommy Pau
From Marvel comics to preserving Torres Strait Islander culture, emerging artist Tommy Pau talks to Karen Dorante about the influences behind his works of art. He also talks about his youth, formal educational experiences and learning Torres Strait Islander culture. He touches on his previous occupations which involved pearling and teaching. Tommy's first solo exhibition […]
Listen >>Dorothy Fox
Karen Dorante spoke with Dorothy Fox, Chairperson of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) in The Northern Territory. NAAJA provides legal services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in a vast swathe of the Northern Territory: from its Head office in Darwin to the Tiwi Islands in the Arafura sea to the […]
Listen >>Danny Lester
Tiga Bayles spoke with Danny Lester CEO of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy based in New South Whales. Aboriginal Employment Strategy's (AES) mission is to train First Nations people for work and to help them to find jobs. Danny talks about the training programs which AES provides. File Download (39:25 min / 22.6 MB)
Listen >>Professor Paul Tacon
Tiga Bayles spoke with Griffith University Professor Paul Tacon. Paul is working with Actor Jack Thompson to launch a campaign Protect Australia's Spirit designed to protecting and document the estimated 100,000 rock art sites around the nation. The art consists of paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils and figures made of beeswax, found on boulders, platforms and […]
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