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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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Marc Newhouse
Marc Newhouse is from Death in Custody Watch WA, and joined Amy McQuire on the programme to talk about the death in custody of Yamitji woman Julieka Dhu, who passed away in a South Hedland watchhouse after being jailed for $1000 in unpaid parking fines. After a year of campaigning, Ms Dhu’s family have secured […]
Listen >>Judy Atkinson
On Let’s Talk this morning we spoke to Jiman and Bundjalung traumatologist Prof Judy Atkinson about the work has she has been doing for three decades now in the area of Family Violence. It comes in the wake of the $100 million package to combat domestic violence announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. But Prof […]
Listen >>Dwarfism Awareness
October is Dwarfism Awareness Month and we had a studio full of guests- Chris Cruickshanks, a short statured entertainer and actor, David Jonker and his Gamilaroi son Jack, who both have a rare form of dwarfism, joined by wife and mother, Gamilaroi woman Elizabeth Tailby. We also had Birri Gubba woman Yarraka Bayles, who’s four-year-old […]
Listen >>Tammy Solonec
Amnesty International’s Tammy Solonec joins Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire to discuss the WA government’s strengthening of youth mandatory detention, which could result in a jump in Aboriginal juvenile detention rates. For more information on Amnesty’s campaign against the home burglary bill, see here: http://www.amnesty.org.au/indigenous-rights/comments/37904/
Listen >>Sol Bellear
Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire talk to Sol Bellear, Chair of Redferm Aboriginal Medical Service and Consultant to NSW Aboriginal Land Council
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