National Talkblack 081020

We had:

Cayla George who is Currently in Cairns (due to covid-19) and preparing for the 20/21 WNBL Season with the Melbourne Boomers and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Campaign with the Australian Opals talking about the upcoming CG Tournament that is being held here in Cairns this Sunday 11th October. For more info on the event: https://www.caylageorge.com/products/cg-tournament-cairns

Mitchell Ross, CEO of Muru Office Supplies and also winner of last year’s IBM Indigenous 2 Indigenous award discussing October being Indigenous business month. Muru Group is a Supply Nation certified, majority Indigenous owned company that provides products and services nationally across Australia to SME’s, Large Corporations and Government Agencies.

Dr Leonardo Guida, Shark scientist at the Australian Marine Conservation Society talking about how a dead dugong washed up on a Queensland beach with a chain wrapped around its tail has been confirmed by the Queensland Department of Fisheries to have died in a shark net and was intentionally sunk with a heavy chain by a shark net operator in accordance with Shark Control Program procedure.

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