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National Indigenous current affairs program, focusing on issues of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Broadcast locally and nationally through the National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS), the program features interviews and discussions that inform, educate and engage audiences on key community, cultural, and social issues.
Let’s Talk Business is proudly sponsored by the University of Queensland.
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Christa Big Canoe
Amy McQuire speaks to Christa Big Canoe, an Anishinaabe First Nations woman from Canada, and Legal Advocacy Director of the Aboriginal Legal Services in Toronto, and Sherene Razack, a feminist scholar, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of the book ‘Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. They […]
Listen >>Prof Mark Moran
Mark Moran is a professor at the University of Queensland and the author of a recent book “Serious Whitefella Stuff”, which analyses how Indigenous policy made so far away – in Canberra most of the time – applies to remote Aboriginal communities. Prof Moran has had years of experience working on the ground in many […]
Listen >>Sam Pinnell
Sam Pinnell is the founder of the QLD FASD Support Group, and joined us on the programme to tell us her personal story of raising children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Ms Pinnell’s nephew, who she is raising as her own son, was diagnosed with FASD when he was a young child and Ms Pinnell […]
Listen >>Summer May Finlay
Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman, public health professional and writer at Croakey’s #JustJustice campaign. She spoke to Amy McQuire about the project, which provides socially responsible journalism on the rising Aboriginal incarceration crisis through a health perspective. The programme discusses the health impacts of locking up so many Aboriginal men, women and […]
Listen >>Aaron Smith
Amy McQuire catches up with the latest news up to the Torres Strait with Torres News editor Aaron Smith. This show discusses the current El Nino climate pattern and how it is affecting mob throughout the Torres Strait, the recent local government elections which saw the first female mayor of Torres Shire Council Vonda Malone […]
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