NATIONAL TALK BLACK – 07/05/2025
On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have:
Ann Messop, Sydney Writers’ Festival Artistic Director, talking about the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s Live & Local Program Returning In 2025 With Biggest Program Yet! Sydney Writers’ Festival’s much-loved Live & Local program returns in 2025, streaming a curated selection of headline events to more than 140 libraries, theatres and cultural venues nationwide from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 May. Now in its most expansive year to date, audiences from Alice Springs to Albany, Queanbeyan to Kalgoorlie will gain free access to world-renowned storytellers and urgent conversations — all direct to their local communities. From Monday 19 to Tuesday 27 May 2025, the 28th Sydney Writers’ Festival brings together some of the world’s most exciting literary voices for a week of insightful discussions, thought-provoking ideas, and unforgettable storytelling. The Festival features a dynamic program of in-person and livestreamed events, including author talks, panel discussions, workshops, and special events across Sydney. You can find out more via the link below!
Katie Couani, Breast Cancer Trials Individual Giving Manager, talking about ‘Matched Giving Day’ on Thursday, 8th May. Breast Cancer Trials, ANZ’s largest oncology research group, is holding a ‘matched giving day’ on Thursday, 8th May where – for 24 hours only, donations from the public will be matched dollar for dollar by a group of generous supporters. Every dollar raised will be doubled to help fund clinical breast cancer research. Breast cancer diagnoses rates are on the rise. Each year, over 20,000 people in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer – the overwhelming majority of them women. We lose more than 3,000 lives to this awful disease annually – that’s nine people dying of breast cancer in Australia each day. We can and must do more to fund critical research and conduct urgent clinical trials. It is the only way we can get kinder, more effective breast cancer treatments to women sooner, and save the lives of the people we know and love – many among them, our much-loved mums. Many supporters of Breast Cancer Trials have lost their own mothers or grandmothers to breast cancer, or are women who, despite having received a devastating diagnosis, think of their families and their children first and foremost. This Giving Day is named in their honour – The For Our Mums Appeal. Held the Thursday before Mother’s Day, for just 24 hours, this special day offers an opportunity for people to double the impact they can have on life-saving research, and connect with a community of like-minded people who are determined to stop lives from being cut short by breast cancer.
How can people get involved:
Donate online at breastcancertrials.org.au/givingday (this will go live On Thursday 8th May)
Donate by calling 1800 423 444
Follow Breast Cancer Trials on socials and share their own stories, thanks and memories of their mums and mother-figures.
Professor Clare Scott AM, ANZOG Chair, talking about Decades of critical underinvestment in gynaecological cancers have cost women’s lives – Now a once-in-a-generation initiative launches to drive urgently needed change. A landmark Gynaecological Cancer Transformation Initiative and report, released today, has confirmed that decades of critical underinvestment in gynaecological cancer research have had devastating consequences for Australian women and girls. The evidence-based initiative sets out a national research program to revolutionise the diagnosis, treatment, and care pathway for women with gynaecological cancers to improve survival rates and save lives. For nearly 20 years, gynaecological cancers have been among the most underfunded cancer types—despite being one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in women. As a result, survival rates for these cancers have stagnated, with outcomes comparable to those of all cancers in 1975. Gynaecological cancers remain among the most lethal cancers for women today. You can find out more via the link below!
https://www.anzgog.org.au/gcti/
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