On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have: Kaylene Matthews, Acting Midwifery Unit Manager at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, talking about how Queensland’s first ever publicly funded homebirth program is now live on the Sunshine Coast. The new Queensland home birthing program formally began on July…
On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have: Uncle Gerry Moore OAM and Julienne McKay, Yuin Elder, Festival Developer and Organiser, talking about inaugural 2024 Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (SFNFF) to be held at Huskisson Pictures, 20-22 September. The First ever First Nations film festival on the NSW…
On today’s National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Services we have: Senator Jana Stewart, Chair of The Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, talking about the Public hearing for inquiry into improving the economic self-determination for First Nations Australians. The Committee is looking forward to hearing firsthand from…
On todays National Talk Black via NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have: Moo Baulch OAM and Vicky Welgraven AM, Our Watch Chair and Co-Deputy Chair, talking about Our Watchs’ announcement of permanent First Nations Deputy Chairs. Our Watch is an independent not-for-profit organisation, who is a national leader in the primary prevention of…
On todays Talk Black via @NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service we have: Jeanine Leane a Poet and Author of “Gawimarra: Gathering – Yarning about this superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colony.” Centacare FNQ Executive Director –…
We had: Thomas Mayor, Advocate for The Uluru Statement from the Heart, talking about the Qld Parliament passing a motion supporting the Uluru Statement, including a Voice to Federal Parliament. Richie Ahmat, Chairman of Cape York Land Council talking about the historic native title sea claims determined on the 30th November. The historic native title…
We had: Brad Cam, Mid-Western Regional Council General Manager talking Dixons Long Point Crossing road, bridge linking Orange-Mudgee delayed again. Long-awaited works to upgrade a track between Orange and Mudgee have again been delayed, this time in order to retain Indigenous heritage along the route but with consensus already reached on the solution. Mark Burdack,…
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