On todays National Talkblack via NIRS – NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we had: Taylah Griffin – Winner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tertiary Student STEM Achievement Award. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical and Aerospace Engineering (Honours) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and works for Boeing Defence Australia as…
On todays National Talkblack via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we had: Jack Wilkie-Jans – Reconciliation week this week – How far have we come and what else is in store for us as First Nations people. Ken Wyatt being sworn in as ‘Minister for Indigenous Australians’. And his thoughts on the recent election…
This week on Black Law: Tribal Edition we look at the slow changing realisation in Australia that the Commonwealth’s claim to sovereignty is flawed and the need for the tribes to grant consent to Australia and its constitution. We also look at racism and the call for it to be made illegal in Australia. Join…
John Singh-Nagyivan from Monash University has been announced as one of the recipients of the 2019 William Cooper Scholarship. The scholarship honours the legacy of the late Aboriginal elder and activist William Cooper, who forged a connection between Indigenous Australians and the Jewish community through a protest against the atrocities committed against Jewish people in Nazi Germany,…
His guest will be Dr. Timothy Bottoms A local Historian. Yarning about his book “Conspiracy of Silence” Queensland’s Frontier killing times. “The Native Police was a state instrument. It was not simply something operating with official knowledge. Jonathon Richards’ extensive archival research has led him to conclude that: Successive governors, colonial secretaries, and ministers of…
Aaron Smith from Torres News giving us an update on what’s happening up there. Talking about the recent elections and how the Torres Strait community feel about the recent elections and what projects were happening there. And other election commitments they will be holding the Liberal government to. Darwin’s Baker Boy yarning to Trendy Trev today about…
Rachel Baker from Elcho Clothing. Elcho Clothing is using the brand Yapa skirts to tackle Youth suicide in remote Aboriginal Communities by engaging with young people through fashion and building on their strengths, self-confidence and self-esteem while keeping in touch with Identity and culture. Ian Hamm – The Community Broadcasting Foundation has announced that he will…
We feature an interview with Arthur Manuel the author of ‘Unsettling Canada’. The issue of Aboriginal title is explored during today’s show and how the tribes, on what is described as the Australian continent, hold the original title, which is not crown title.”
