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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.
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Akala
Akala is a UK rapper, social commentator, historian and writer who uses his art to bring uncomfortable truths about racism and colonialism to the public. Tiga Bayles and Amy McQuire spoke to him while he was touring Australia, about the importance of learning history, how the suppression of black history was used to dehumanise black […]
Listen >>Blacktivism
QPAC’s annual Clancestry festival included a number of conversations curated by Murri woman Dr Chelsea Bond. This is one of the conversations featuring Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, Dr Gary Foley, Luke Pearson and Amy McQuire. It is chaired by Leesa Watego. “From the frontier wars to the Black Panthers movement to #SOSBlackAustralia, ‘blackfellas’ have consistently and […]
Listen >>Rachel Atkinson
Rachel Atkinson is a Yorta Yorta woman from Victoria, who heads the Palm Island Community Company Limited (PICC) and is an executive member of the peak body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families – SNAICC. We discussed the recent Social Justice Report released by Mick Gooda, which dedicates an entire chapter to […]
Listen >>Kiera Ladner & Myra Tait
Cree academic Kiera Lander and Anishinaabe academic Myra Tait from the University of Manitoba in Canada join Amy McQuire to talk about the ongoing crisis around missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, the numbers of Aboriginal women who are incarcerated, and Australia’s framing of the debate to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in […]
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