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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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Michael Aird
Kombu-merri photographer and anthropologist Michael Aird joined us to speak about commemorations for the Broadbeach Burial Ground on his traditional lands on the Gold Coast. In the 1960s, soil contractors unearthed hundreds of Aboriginal remains, some of which dated back 1000 years. There was an archaeological excavation and the remains were placed in the University […]
Listen >>Dr Jan Hammill
Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire talk to Gomeroi woman Dr Jan Hammill about the effects of drinking in pregnancy. Dr Hammill coordinates the Collaboration for Alcohol Related Developmental Disorders. We spoke about how we have to change the attitudes around alcohol in mainstream culture, not just Aboriginal culture as a way to bring down Fetal […]
Listen >>Paul Calcott
Paul Calcott is a Wiradjuri man, a co-coordinator for the Murri Disability Advisory Network in Queensland and is involved with the First Peoples Disability Network Australia. As a baby, he contracted polio which influenced where he is today – advocating for culturally appropriate and safe services for our mob with disability. We spoke to Paul […]
Listen >>Noel Pearson
Host Tiga Bayles speaks to Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson about how Aboriginal affairs will fare under Malcolm Turnbull, and the meaning of self-determination and ‘responsibility’. https://triplea-uploads.thrivex.io/989fm/20170831001944/05-11-2015LetsTalkNoelPearson-1.mp3 26076122 audio/mpeg a:1:{s:8:”duration”;s:8:”00:54:19″;}
Listen >>Uncle Michael Welsh
Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire talk to Uncle Michael Welsh, a Wailwan man from Coonamble, NSW who at age 8 was stolen from his family and placed in Kinchela Boys Home, near Kempsey. Uncle Michael talks about his experiences, the impact on his children and grandchildren, and how he embarked on the long road to […]
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