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Let’s Talk
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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.
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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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