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Let’s Talk
WEEKDAYS 9 – 10am
National Indigenous talk show focusing on current affairs and issues of importance to Indigenous people. This program is Murri Country’s flagship program and is listened to by a large Indigenous audience in Brisbane and around the country via the National Indigenous Radio Service.
Program sponsor: The Community Broadcasting Foundation
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Lara Watson
Lara Watson is a Murri Field Officer with the Queensland Council of Unions and joined Amy McQuire to talk about the Queensland government’s Stolen Wages Reparations Fund.
Listen >>Luke Pearson
Luke Pearson is a Gamilaroi man, former teacher and founder of IndigenousX. IndigenousX began on Twitter, and has since expanded to a website, which publishes commentary from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the nation. Luke joined us to discuss a recent piece he wrote for The Guardian around the ‘invasion/settlement’ debate. See the […]
Listen >>Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Behrendt is an Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. She is the Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. But that’s just her day job. She is also an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel ‘Home’ won the David Unaipon Prize for unpublished Indigenous […]
Listen >>Aaron Smith
Amy McQuire catches up with the latest news up to the Torres Strait with Torres News editor Aaron Smith. This show discusses the current El Nino climate pattern and how it is affecting mob throughout the Torres Strait, the recent local government elections which saw the first female mayor of Torres Shire Council Vonda Malone […]
Listen >>Chris Graham
New Matilda editor Chris Graham joins Let’s Talk in studio where we discuss the latest stories including a true crime writer who claimed in a recent book that a ‘typical Aboriginal’ is a violent, thieving, rapist, murderer. We also discuss the issue of Aboriginal representation in politics, First Nations journalist Stan Grant (who is considering […]
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