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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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Tammy Solenec
Amnesty International’s Tammy Solenec talks to Amy McQuire about Australia’s second Universal Periodic Review, a mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council. Tammy just returned from Geneva where Amnesty made a submission calling on Australia to correct its human rights record to lower black jailing rates, stop the forced closures of remote WA communities, remove […]
Listen >>Wally Stewart
Wally Stewart is a Yuin man living in Narooma, on the South Coast of NSW. He is also a strong advocate for Aboriginal cultural fishing. On the South Coast, home to a multi million dollar abalone industry, local Yuin mob are being given huge fines and even jail sentences simply for exercising the cultural rights […]
Listen >>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 >>Ken Canning
Uncle Ken Canning is a well-known Murri poet and writer. During the 70s, he spent time in the old Bogga Road Jail in Brisbane and later when onto education. We spoke about what life was like in the prisons back in the 70s, whether anything has changed and how he and others campaigned for prisoners’ […]
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 […]
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