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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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Following on from yesterday’s interview with the Ah Wang twins seeking justice for their wage case, Tiga Bayles opens the lines for talkback and replays Keating’s historic Redfern speech.
Listen >>65 years later, still waiting to be paid
Paul and Arthur Ah Wang are 76 years old and they are angry. From age 13 the brothers worked side-by-side on a pearling lugger off Mackay, free diving to collect pearl shell and doing deckhand duties. It was dangerous work, and if they misbehaved they were often sent below decks to bed without dinner. Both brothers […]
Listen >>Paul and Arthur Ah Wang
Tiga Bayles speaks to 76 year old twins – Paul and Arthur Ah Wang – who are seeking justice for their stolen wages. In their teens the twins worked on a pearling lugger off the north Queensland coast and like many Aboriginal and Strait Islander workers, their wages were subject to government control. For his […]
Listen >>Gina Archer
Tiga Bayles interviews Gina Archer, chair of the Queensland Indigenous Education Consultative Committee about her teaching background and about the initiatives being introduced into the classroom to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
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