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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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Jeff Corntassel
Amy McQuire sat down with Mohawk scholar Gerald Taiaiake Alfred and Cherokee scholar Jeff Corntassel at the National Native Title Conference in Darwin to discuss Indigenous resurgence and decolonisation. We also talk about their respective nation’s experience of Treaty. You can find more about their work at Prof Alfred’s website here, and Prof Corntassel’s website […]
Listen >>Prof David Lambert
David Lambert is a Professor at Griffith University’s School of Environment, and an expert on ancient DNA. He joined Amy McQuire to discuss in more detail a groundbreaking new study which has found Aboriginal people were the first people on this continent. A study in 2001, arising from analysis of DNA in the samples of […]
Listen >>Allan Clarke
Allan Clarke is a Muruwari man from Bourke, NSW and a prominent First Nations journalist, currently writing for Buzzfeed Australia. He has been covering a lot of cases that revolve around the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal men, women and children. He joined Amy McQuire on the programme to discuss one story in particular, […]
Listen >>Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning Murri writer who grew up in Brisbane – she is Yugambeh. Her first book – Heat and Light – won the prestigious David Unaipon award for Unpublished Indigenous authors in 2013, and it has since won the Indigenous Writers Prize at the NSW Premiers Literary Awards, an honour she […]
Listen >>Sharon Williams
May 26th is the 19th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report into the Stolen Generations. But 19 years on, there is little to celebrate. The rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care has sky-rocketed. In fact, the rates have gone up by 400 percent since 1997, when the Bringing Them […]
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