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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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Akala
Akala is a UK rapper, social commentator, historian and writer who uses his art to bring uncomfortable truths about racism and colonialism to the public. Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire spoke to him while he was touring Australia, about the importance of learning history, how the suppression of black history was used to dehumanise black […]
Listen >>Rachel Atkinson
Rachel Atkinson is a Yorta Yorta woman from Victoria, who heads the Palm Island Community Company Limited (PICC) and is an executive member of the peak body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families – SNAICC. We discussed the recent Social Justice Report released by Mick Gooda, which dedicates an entire chapter to […]
Listen >>Blacktivism
QPAC’s annual Clancestry festival included a number of conversations curated by Murri woman Dr Chelsea Bond. This is one of the conversations featuring Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, Dr Gary Foley, Luke Pearson and Amy McQuire. It is chaired by Leesa Watego. “From the frontier wars to the Black Panthers movement to #SOSBlackAustralia, ‘blackfellas’ have consistently and […]
Listen >>Kiera Ladner & Myra Tait
Cree academic Kiera Lander and Anishinaabe academic Myra Tait from the University of Manitoba in Canada join Amy McQuire to talk about the ongoing crisis around missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, the numbers of Aboriginal women who are incarcerated, and Australia’s framing of the debate to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in […]
Listen >>Kate Galloway
Amy McQuire speaks to Kate Galloway, a legal academic at James Cook University in Cairns, who specialises in property law. We discuss the current framing of native title reform around property rights and economic development, and what that means in an Aboriginal terms of reference. We also talk about the need for a human rights-based […]
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