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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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Priscilla Gibson and Paul Gibson
Today a few people from Hopevale in Far North Queensland Priscilla Gibson a health promotion officer for Apunipima Cape York Health Council and dialysis patient Paul Gibson in Cooktown, will be with us to talk about an issue that you, me and everyone else should be mindful of an that is looking after your health. […]
Listen >>Tony Dreise
Tiga Bayles spoke with Tony Dreise, a PhD Scholar at the Australian National University and an independent Indigenous policy and education consultant. File Download (43:16 min / 24.8 MB)
Listen >>Jonathan Nicholls
Karen Dorante speaks to Jonathan Nicholls, editor of Paper Tracker, after mainstream media reported on claims that starvation and “no food days” were commonplace in the Anagu Pitjantjatjara and Yunkunytjatjara or APY Lands in South Australia. There’s now debate about bringing an NT-style intervention to the region. File Download (43:52 min / 25.1 MB)
Listen >>Professor John Maynard
Karen Dorante speaks to Professor John Maynard from the University of Newcastle about his research into a form of a football played by First Nations people in Australia. His research is published in his latest book, “The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe.” File Download (47:21 min / 27.1 MB)
Listen >>Sam Watson
Karen Dorante speaks with Sam Watson – a life-long social justice campaigner and Aboriginal activitist – about the latest death in custody in Queensland and the outcome of an investigation into another death in February 2010. File Download (34:14 min / 19.6 MB)
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