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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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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 […]
Listen >>Debra Hocking
Amy McQuire speaks to Aboriginal health specialist Debra Hocking about how the University of Wollongong is rolling out Australia’s, and potentially the world’s, first Indigenous trauma recovery graduate programme. Debra is a survivor of the Stolen Generations, and only reunited with her birth family when she turned 20. Her tale of removal and the violence […]
Listen >>Dawn Casey
Dawn Casey is the previous chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation and Indigenous Business Australia. She finished her tenure just this month. During her time as chair, she continually called for an independent investigation into the $300 million purchase of Ayers Rock Resort under the previous board. There are still questions that have not been […]
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