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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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Sam Wagan Watson
Sam Wagan Watson is a Birri Gubba poet, and one of Australia’s most decorated writers. He joins Amy McQuire with Maori woman Annie Te Whiu, to discuss the brilliance of Aboriginal poetry, in the lead up to the Queensland Poetry Festival. He also reads out his poem ‘Let’s Talk’, dedicated to Tiga Bayles. https://triplea-uploads.thrivex.io/989fm/20170831003035/15-08-2016SamWaganWatson-1.mp3 21157935 […]
Listen >>Megan Davis
Professor Megan Davis is one of Australia’s foremost experts on constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples, and the first Aboriginal Australian to be elected to a United Nations body. She is also one of the 16 members of the Referendum Council. She joins Amy McQuire to discuss the outcome of three meetings – in Broome, Thursday […]
Listen >>Alice Eather
Alice Eather is a Kunibídji woman from Maningrida who grew up in Brisbane with her other two sisters – Noni and Grace. She is one of the Stingray Sisters – a new web-series directed by their childhood friend Katrina Channells, who is our other guest. In 2016, their leadership in Maningrida has never been more […]
Listen >>Jandamarra Cadd
Yorta Yorta artist Jandamarra Cadd joins Let’s Talk to discuss his own experience in Queensland youth detention centres, following on from the Four Corners report into Don Dale in the Northern Territory. He has been able to heal through the power of his award-winning artwork. https://triplea-uploads.thrivex.io/989fm/20170831001937/05-08-2016JandamarraCadd-1.mp3 22042546 audio/mpeg a:2:{s:8:”duration”;s:8:”00:45:55″;s:8:”explicit”;s:1:”0″;}
Listen >>Ms Dhu's Death
Amy McQuire marks the second anniversary of Ms Dhu’s death in custody in conversation with her Uncle Shaun Harris. Ms Dhu was 22 when she passed away in horrendous pain in a South Hedland watchhouse. The coronial inquest into her death has yet to be handed down – and the family are calling for the […]
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