A talk on the passive welfare underclass and the urgent need for a universal Job Guarantee with Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson With jobseekers outnumbering available jobs in many Cape York communities, many find themselves in the grips of passive welfare that strips them of their purpose and self-worth and places them at high risk of being left behind by the real economy. The benefits of employment go far beyond an earned income for one individual. A genuine, meaningful job restores ...
Aug 04, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
A talk on the passive welfare underclass and the urgent need for a universal Job Guarantee with Cape York Partnership founder Noel Pearson With jobseekers outnumbering available jobs in many Cape York communities, many find themselves in the grips of passive welfare that strips them of their purpose and self-worth and places them at high risk of being left behind by the real economy. The benefits of employment go far beyond an earned income for one individual. A genuine, meaningful job restores ...
Jul 29, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
An Introduction to Ngak Min Health with Charmaine Nicholls, Melanie Dunstan and Matthew Carson Indigenous Australians have an average life expectancy 19 years below that of wider Queensland and an unparalleled lack of access to healthcare services. And the health gaps start early. So what if we could improve early intervention by opening a holistic health clinic on an Indigenous school campus? Introducing Ngak Min Health, a clinic co-located on the grounds of Djarragun College in Gordonvale, jus...
Apr 24, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Do Indigenous Australians get more welfare than non-Indigenous Australians? Should the Commonwealth Government stop funding welfare? What can be done to close the employment gap? Is there a viable replacement for Community Development Programs (CDP)? Why haven't employment programs in Indigenous communities led to the empowerment of community members? How can the Commonwealth Government increase individual agency, responsibility and community participation of unemployed community members? We exp...
Mar 14, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 21
With no connection to the national grid, many remote communities of Cape York currently rely on diesel generators to power their lives. But what if there was a greener solution? One that was not only better for the environment, but brought long-lasting economic benefits to the community. Cape York Hydrogen plans to find out. In this episode of Time to Listen, we talk to Cape York Hydrogen Project Lead David Thompson and HDF Energy Project Manager and Engineer Bryan Dumail about their plans to wo...
Feb 22, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 20
The National Centre for Vocational Education and Research has published its student equity in VET data tables. It revealed an eleven percentage point gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous completion rates of VET qualifications. In their report, Indigenous Participation in VET: Understanding the Research , NCVER revealed that the VET sector needed to improve and adapt to better engage Indigenous students with VET. More successful engagement, they said, is built on community ownership, genuine...
Dec 21, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The National Centre for Vocational Education and Research has published its student equity in VET data tables. It revealed an eleven percentage point gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous completion rates of VET qualifications. In their report, Indigenous Participation in VET: Understanding the Research , NCVER revealed that the VET sector needed to improve and adapt to better engage Indigenous students with VET. More successful engagement, they said, is built on community ownership, genuine...
Dec 15, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 18
"I'm living the dream at the moment. Working here at Djarragun College is my dream job. I get to work with young Indigenous men and women and see them grow as both students and people. The school is amazing because of the amount of different Indigenous communities represented here." - Aaron Davey On this episode of the Time to Listen podcast, we get to sit down and have a good old-fashioned chat with Indigenous AFL legend Aaron Davey. Aaron played 178 games for the Melbourne Demons Football Club...
Nov 29, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 17
"Many non-Indigenous people will have just one negative experience with a First Nations person, and then write off an entire community that is so inherently diverse. But Indigenous people are expected to continually remain open minded about non-Indigenous people and to continue to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but it's really difficult to that when it's not returned." - Marijke Bassani What are the misconceptions that exist regarding Indigenous people? How can a non-Indigenous person b...
Nov 22, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 16
"Racism doesn't look like it did in the '50's and the '40's; it evolves over time. It's a living thing. Some people are in denial about carrying racial unconscious bias, but how could you not be carrying that when you look around us. Look at the systems in place in our society – the structures are built on white being at the top. That's a fact." - Marijke Bassani What is life like for a young Indigenous woman growing up in Cape York? What challenges do they face when they leave their community t...
Nov 15, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 15
"The students are the center of our care, so it's really important to focus on what the students' needs are. Not only their academic needs, but more importantly their social and emotional wellbeing." - Karen Wilson, Cape York Girl Academy Head of Wellbeing. Why should schools prioritise the health and wellbeing of their students? How can this be achieved? For Indigenous Australian students, are there unique cultural considerations? And what does it mean to feel culturally safe? On this week's ep...
Sep 20, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
"I can say that we are a fairly unique situation here at Girl Academy. We're offering opportunities for students to learn more about their first languages. We're offering more opportunities for students to be exposed to the diversity and interwoven layers of Indigenous communities ...The teachers here are really mindful of our students' cultures ... so that we can help them build upon their knowledge of their own traditional culture." – Baressa Frazer. How can Indigenous students be best support...
Sep 06, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 13
"If this [the First Nations Voice] is something you believe in, and you feel a conviction for it and in your heart you want to this happen, then stand with us and help us bring more people along ... I am absolutely of the belief that when Australians from all walks of life take this up and walk with us as the Uluru Statement invited everybody to do ... we're going to make history together." - Dean Parkin This week on the podcast, we are bringing to you the second part of our interview with Dean ...
Aug 31, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 12
"The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invite to the Australian people, and I have seen people respond to that invitation. There is a sense that if we could do it 1967, then this is our generation and we can do it this time. I think that more and more people are feeling connected to the cause." - Dean Parkin This week on the podcast, we are speaking to the Director of the From the Heart campaign — Dean Parkin. From the Heart's mission is to see Australia realise the principles and proposition...
Aug 17, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
"This is the second inquiry into food security by the parliament in eleven years. And like the Closing the Gap targets, little has changed or improved for those Australian Aboriginal people who live in remote communities." - Anne Stanley MP. In December 2020, the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs tabled a report on food pricing and food security in remote Indigenous communities. The inquiry into this issue was made after reports of grocery price gouging...
Jul 19, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 10
"History has had a direct impact on future Indigenous generations. Before any person wishes to judge or stereotype and Indigenous individual, please do your history first." - Warren Clements. Welcome to a special NAIDOC Week edition of Time to Listen. NAIDOC Week is a celebration of Indigenous Australian culture, history and achievement, and is also an important period in the calendar for listening, reflection and healing. The theme for 2021, Heal Country, is a call to action; a powerful reminde...
Jul 05, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 9
"You can't rely on markets to deliver justice. The market is not necessarily going to give us a socially acceptable outcome, so it has to be political intervention." - Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel laureate in economic sciences. A gap of 26 percentile points, and widening. That is what defines the difference in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Addressing this issue, which ought to be impermissible in the first place, is not a dilemma, but an imperative. The Prime...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Indigenous youth are twice as unlikely to gain employment relative to their non-Indigenous peers. The Indigenous employment rate decreased by two percentage points between the 2006 and 2016 census, and lags behind the non-Indigenous employment rate by a staggering 25 percentage points. Why is this really the case, and what can be done about it? Bama Services is a recognised social enterprise based in Far North Queensland. After ten years of rapid growth, the contract services organisation now re...
Jun 21, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 7
It all begins with effective education. If a true and positive difference is going to made in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, it is going to be made by the emerging Indigenous generations. This journey begins with the academic, vocational and leadership skills gained in school. With regard to this, the staff at Djarragun College, an Indigenous owned and focused school located in Gordonvale, Queensland, understand acutely how vital the window of schooling is for its students. T...
May 31, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
"The Girl Academy can perhaps act as a microcosm of how things can work [in Indigenous education]. There needs to be a systemic redesign of how we [Australia] are educating; in particular, how young Indigenous people are seeing themselves in the education system. We need to ask: are they identifying with the signs, the symbols and the talk of what it means to be Indigenous in this country? That may then begin to answer a question that our education systems are just not seeing." Imagine if your i...
May 24, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 5
"At Cape York Institute, we are constantly asking 'why'. Why are Indigenous youth incarceration rates double the national average. Why haven't we closed the gap in the past ten years. Why do issues in Indigenous affairs seem to be getting worse form time to time. So [we at CYI] ask the questions why, and have a deep passion for reform in Indigenous affairs." In this episode of Time to Listen, we are joined by Prue Briggs, Cape York Institute's Head of Policy. The Cape York Institute for Policy a...
May 10, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
"We've constructed a policy reform agenda for our own children. The people who [our policy agenda] concerns are our own relatives ... the people who we love in the world. "That's one of the strengths of the Cape York Institute; it's an institute that is driven for our people." In this episode of Time to Listen, we are joined by Noel Pearson, whose voice is widely recognised and sought after in Indigenous Affairs. Noel has founded many organisations focused on the empowerment of Indigenous Austra...
May 04, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
"There are so many capable First Nations women. A barrier we have is that organisations – be they corporate, government or philanthropic – are defining us by our gender and culture. Those organisations need to be clear that First Nations women can have opinions and experience on a broad range of public policy." Fiona Jose is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cape York Partnership (CYP). Fiona has held multiple management positions in her journey to executive leadership. These have included role...
Apr 26, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 2
"We're all Australians, so we can't have second-class citizens in our own country - the First Nations People ... we're lucky as Australians, we live in the best country in the world, but we just have to get our backyard cleaned up. Politicians have to make some bold decisions for us to move forward as a nation." Richie Ah Mat, a Yupungathi man, is the Co-Chair of the Cape York Partnership, and the Chairperson of the Cape York Land Council. For three decades, Richie has been active in Cape York r...
Apr 19, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
There is a multitude of commentary and debate circulating in Australian politics and media concerning Indigenous Australians. Yet how much airtime is actually given to Indigenous Australians themselves? This is Time to Listen, a podcast that gives a space and a platform to Indigenous voices. You will hear from prominent leaders, such as Noel Pearson and Richie Ah Mat. We will bring forward the voices of traditional owners and custodians of culture, and ensure a diversity of perspective between l...
Apr 15, 2021•6 min0
International Women’s Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate the unique qualities and capabilities of women, as well as commemorate their efforts and struggle for the sake of equality. Women offer particular strengths in leadership, whether that be leadership in their workplace, their communities, their homes, or all of the above. But at Cape York Partnership, we are taking an extra step in this opportunity for commemoration and collaboration. We are not only ensuring women are at the forefro...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min
