We had: Michael Zitha, Senior Project Officer located in the Torres Strait for Biosecurity Queensland talking about prevention and control programs for high priority invasive plants & animals in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula area. Call 13 25 23 for more information regarding the new biosecurity rules for the Torres Strait and NPA. Karen…
We had: Leah Cameron, Principal Solicitor at Marrawah Law talking about surveillance in the workplace. Surveillance of employees is becoming increasingly prevalent in many workplaces, with the assistance of advances in technology, tune in to hear Leah discuss the rights of employees and employers to record in the workplace. Andy Saunders, comedian community influencer and…
We had: Gary Christian, Research Director, Drug Free Australia talking about how a just-published study in the medical journal BMC Cancer has demonstrated that rising rates of childhood cancers, which have increased by 49% since 1975 throughout the United States, are closely related to increased cannabis use in US States that have decriminalised or legalised…
We had: Fatima Yaqoot, Senior Research Fellow at James Cook University’s Mount Isa Centre for Rural and remote Health continuing on her previous conversation with Trendy Trev about how a new analysis of sleep health studies has found Indigenous Australian children suffer disproportionately from sleep problems. This interview, she talks about the recent project that…
We had: Adrian Dodson-Shaw, a proud Yawru, Arrernte and Kaytetye man and Assistant Director at the Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics talking about how The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is recruiting over 300 Census remote area team roles across Australia for the 2021 census. To view the applicant information kits and…
We had: Trendy Trev caught up with Aretha Brown, a Gumbaynggirr woman and accomplished “painter, decolonizer, dreamboat” earlier last week to talk about how on the 28th of March at Kambri at ANU, four prominent female artists from around Australia will discuss their art and area of activism, sharing powerful ideas, diverse perspectives and inspiring…
We had: Leah Cameron, Founder and Principal Solicitor at Marrawah Law talking about the recent Australian March 4 Justice. Tens of thousands of people turned out to marches across Australia earlier this week, protesting against the sexual abuse and harassment of women in the country. They were spurred by a recent wave of allegations of…
We had: Airileke, Director of Gaba Musik talking about the upcoming PASIFIX concert which he is artistically directing. PASIFIX spotlights Australia’s proud Pacific Islander community and the impact their artists are having on Australia’s music scene. PASIFIX will be held at the Bowl in Melbourne on the 10th of April 2021. For more info: https://liveatthebowl.com.au/pasifix…
We had: Associate Professor Chandra Balaratnasigam from the Lions Eye Institute talking about how a new eye clinic to treat children and adolescents will help to reduce blindness in Western Australian children with diabetes. The clinic is a collaboration between the Lions Eye Institute and Perth Children’s Hospital, and is part of the new Perron…
We had: Dr Fatima Yaqoot, Senior Research Fellow at James Cook University’s Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health talking about how a new analysis of sleep health studies has found Indigenous Australian children suffer disproportionately from sleep problems. She says “access to sleep health care is lacking for Indigenous children. Data from sleep…
