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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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Melinda Hammond
Amy McQuire spoke to Melinda Hammond, the Nutrition Team Leader at the Apunipima Cape York Health Council. We spoke about ‘food insecurity’ or the ‘diet of the poor’ – the hidden hunger affecting Cape York. Apunipima provides health services to 11 communities in Cape York. You can find out more here. https://triplea-uploads.thrivex.io/989fm/20170831002253/08-10-2015MelindaHammond-1.mp3 21279204 audio/mpeg a:1:{s:8:”duration”;s:8:”00:44:20″;}
Listen >>Stephen Kinnane
Stephen Kinnane is a Miriuwung academic and a researcher from the University of Notre Dame. Dr Kinnane’s grandmother was forced onto one of the largest government-run institutions in Western Australia – Moore River Native Settlement, where she had up to 75 percent of her wage or payment ‘managed’. She is one of thousands of Aboriginal […]
Listen >>Aimee McVeigh
Aimee McVeigh is a human rights lawyer with experience working with Aboriginal women and children in both the Northern Territory and Queensland. She is currently involved in a campaign which is pushing the Labor government to legislate for a Human Rights Act, to act as a ‘safety net’ ensuring governments must consider the rights of […]
Listen >>Judy Atkinson
On Let’s Talk this morning we spoke to Jiman and Bundjalung traumatologist Prof Judy Atkinson about the work has she has been doing for three decades now in the area of Family Violence. It comes in the wake of the $100 million package to combat domestic violence announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. But Prof […]
Listen >>Tapee Salee
Amy McQuire speaks to Tapee Salee and David Byrne from the Apudthama Land Trust in Injinoo, at the top of Cape York. We yarn about self-governance, and how the community is trying to wrestle back control following the controversial amalgamations under Queensland’s Beattie government. https://triplea-uploads.thrivex.io/989fm/20170831004328/29-09-2015TapeeSaleeDavidByrne-1.mp3 22023590 audio/mpeg a:2:{s:8:”duration”;s:8:”00:45:53″;s:8:”explicit”;s:1:”0″;}
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