NATIONAL TALK BLACK – 20/08/2025
On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have:
Peter Yagmoor, Queensland Parliament First Peoples Liaison Officer, talking about the 2025 Junior Indigenous Youth Parliament in Cairns. This hands-on parliamentary experience is an exciting opportunity for Year 5 and 6 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to learn more about how Queensland Parliament works. Students allocated a speaking role will either: Debate a motion, or speak in an adjournment debate or provide a private members’ statement about any issue falling within the jurisdiction of the Queensland Parliament. Some students will be allocated a non-speaking or scripted role. Schools were invited to nominate up to 10 x Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Year 5 and 6. The Queensland Parliament organises and facilitates youth parliament events in Brisbane and across
Queensland each year. You can find out more via the ink below!
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/…/Junior-Indigenous…
Geoff Crittenden, Weld Australia CEO, talking about Weld Australia Urges Government to Tackle Indigenous Incarceration Crisis by Funding Proven Training Program. Weld Australia is calling on the Federal Government to urgently adopt its Vocational Education and Training (VET) welding program that has already proven to be extremely successful, following the devastating Productivity Commission report showing Australia is on track to meet just four of the 19 Closing the Gap targets. Weld Australia’s prison-based welding training program—already operational across 10 Victorian correctional facilities—is a proven model for reform. Delivered in partnership with Federation University in Victoria, the program provides internationally recognised qualifications and employment pathways for participants, helping them reintegrate into society and significantly reduce their chances of reoffending. You can find out more via the link below!
https://weldaustralia.com.au/…/weld-australia-urges…
TicTac Moore, The Indigenous Literacy Foundation Programs Manager, talking about Children’s Books from Yirrkala Reflect Yolŋu Life, Language and Country. Yirrkala School is a remote school in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and has a long-standing program of bilingual, ‘both ways’ education. Three beautiful picture books have been created in Community that reflect Yolŋu life, Language and Country. Published by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), these books were facilitated in a workshop with ILF Lifetime Ambassador Alison Lester, children’s author Jane Godwin and designer Lee Burgemeestre. On the Way to Yalaŋbara is written and illustrated by two respected Elders of the Yolŋu people of North East Arnhem Land Community, Rärriwuy Garramu Marika and Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs. Their book is a story of family and Country, based on a real-life adventure to the sacred homeland of Yalaŋbara. Djawundil Maymara is a Maŋgalili woman raised by a Gumatj Elder. She is a Yolŋu mother and grandmother from Bawaka in North East Arnhem Land and has written Ŋäṉḏi ga Gatapaŋa (Mum and the Buffalo) with illustrations from children at Yirrkala School. Written in Dhuwaya and English, this book is also a fun adventure about a family’s unexpected encounter with a buffalo while out collecting pandanus. Guḻun’ (Billabong) was created by the children at Yirrkala School and is a counting book written in Dhuwaya and English that introduces twelve local animals found around the billabong. You can find out more via the link below! (Photo Credits: The Courier Mail)
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