Bandjalung artist, writer, curator and activist Djon Mundine discusses the King and Wood Malleson contemporary First Nations Art Award and exhibition, which is showing at 45Downstairs. With presenter Vanessa Morris, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
ANU Emeritus Professor Jon Altman discusses his recent article on the harmful policy legacies of the Northern Territory Intervention, which was instilled fourteen years ago. With presenter Daniel James. Article: https://arena.org.au/lest-we-forget-the-harmful-policy-legacies-of-the-northern-territory-intervention/ Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Gamilaraay man, founder and CEO of Indigenous X, Luke Pearson, joins presenter Daniel James to discuss an article that he and Natalie Cromb wrote for Indigenous X about Critical Race Theory. Article: https://indigenousx.com.au/critical-race-theory-what-isnt-it/ Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People and Gooreng Gooreng man, Justin Mohamed, joins presenter Daniel James to discuss the ‘Our Youth, Our Way’ report, the result of a three year inquiry looking at solutions into the crisis of the over-representation of Aboriginal kids in custody. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission Report: https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/upholding-childrens-rights/systemic-inquiries/our-youth-our-way/...
Grant Hansen, Taungarung man, broadcaster, footy commentator and co-host of the Marngrook Footy Show discusses Adam Goodes declining the AFL Hall of Fame invitation; and Tanna Draper Nagas, a teacher at Lilydale Heights College, talks about teaching kids, role models, and how her Indigenous identity feeds into her teaching. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Catherine Liddle, Arrernte/Luritja woman and CEO of SNAICC, the National Voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, discusses the crisis of the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of home care; and Selwyn Button, Board Member of the Lowitja Institute, talks about the fourth anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and the significance of it winning the Sydney Peace Prize. With presenter Daniel James. Website : https://www.rrr.org.a...
CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Services, Yorta Yorta woman Nerita Waight, talks about how Victoria’s bail laws disproportionately affect Aboriginal women, and also what the recent Budget cuts have meant for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Services; and Kado Muir, Chairperson of the National Native Title Council, discusses what the one-year anniversary of the destruction of the Juukan Caves, and what needs to be done to ensure devastation like this doesn’t happen again. With presenter Danie...
Newly Appointed Chair of Victoria's Historic Truth-Telling Commission, the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, Professor Eleanor Bourke, discusses the importance of truth-telling for our collective history; and Ian Hamm, Chair of the Board of Directors at First Nations Foundation, discusses his recent article for The Age in which he outlines why it is so crucial to move the conversation about truth telling from a place of deficit. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/pr...
Professor Sandy O’Sullivan, a Wiradjuri person and an expert on critical race theory, discusses anti-racism and why there has been pushback from the Right; and Dr Emma Lee explores the proposed changes to the school curriculum in Australia, which would include more First Nations content. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Tati Tati man Brendan Kennedy, a delegate for Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, talks to Daniel about The Murray Darling River Basin and what has gone wrong; and Professor Bronwyn Carlson from Macquarie University discusses Australia’s silence on violence against Indigenous women.’ With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Veronica Gorrie, a proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, talks to presenter Daniel James about her new book, Black and Blue; an honest and sometimes harrowing account of her life as an Aboriginal woman in the police force. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Neil Morris discusses the illegal felling of trees at The Flats on Yorta Yorta country. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Priscilla Atkins, Co-Chair of The National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) discusses Black Deaths in Custody. Then, social worker and social justice advocate Sue-Anne Hunter on the March For Justice movement. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Healing Foundation CEO Fiona Petersen discusses the Aged Care Royal Commission and its implications for members of the stolen generations. Then, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson, First Nations People of Assembly Co-Chair and Bangerang and Wiradjuri woman, talks about the establishment of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission by the Victorian Government, which will be the nation’s first truth-telling process into injustices experienced by Aboriginal people since colonisation. With presenter Daniel James. Webs...
Dr Damien Finch from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences, tells Daniel how Australia's oldest rock art painting has been identified. Then, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar talks about racially-motivated violence, and issues confronting Aboriginal women and girls. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Naomi Moran, First Nations Media Australia Vice-Chair, discusses how the Facebook ban on Australian media content affects First Nations communities; and Dr Jason Agostino, National Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation (NACCHO) Medical Advisor, talks about plans to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccine to First Nation communities across the country. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Jadah Pleiter discusses providing the Victorian public with a deeper understanding into the State’s true history with the new campaign, 'Deadly And Proud.' And Nala Mansell, Campaign Coordinator at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, reflects on the decade-long campaign agitating for The Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery to return 14,000-year-old Aboriginal artefacts to their original site. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/program...
UNSW Engineering Associate Professor Fiona Johnson discusses her recent report regarding up to 22 sacred Indigenous sites and important river systems being under threat in the Northern Territory. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
New SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle talks about the challenges facing Aboriginal children in 2021; and Archie Roach talks about his memoir 'Tell Me Why: the Story of My Life and My Music', which recently won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Productivity Commissioner Romlie Mokak explores the release of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report; and Dr. Lois Peeler discusses William Cooper's legacy with respect to the German government officially apologising for its refusal to accept the Australian Aborigines League letter of protest about the Nazi persecution of Jews. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), reflects on how the Victorian State Budget impacts Aboriginal Communities; and Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy discusses the repeal of public drunkenness as a criminal offence. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Professor Hugh Taylor AC, Melbourne Laureate Professor, talks about Closing The Gap on Indigenous eye health; and Damian Griffis, CEO First Peoples Disability Network, talks about First Nations people with disability raising injustice, discrimination, at the Disability Royal Commission. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Sue-Anne Hunter, Chair of Family Matters, talks about 'The Family Matters Report 2020' findings of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children taken away from their families at alarming rates; and Lisa Annese CEO, Diversity Council Australia, speaks about the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian workplaces. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Social justice trailblazer Pat Anderson AO talks about sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart with multicultural communities, and working toward translating it into more than 60 languages; and Justin Mohamed, Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, discusses the increasing use of remand to detain Aboriginal children. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
SBS Director of Indigenous Content Tanya Denning-Orman talks to fill-in host Paul Gorrie about NITV's NAIDOC Week lineup. With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Kent Morris, CEO of The Torch, talks about the online exhibition ‘Future Dreaming’ featuring artworks created within Victorian prisons during the pandemic; and Djab Wurrung woman Sissy Eileen Austin expresses her grief for the destruction of a sacred tree on Djab Wurrung country. With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Dr Brian Martin talks about a new project aiming to produce an Indigenous-led study on the significance of trees in southeast Australian Aboriginal cultures; and Luke Briscoe, aka DJ DIMULJI (MYSTIC) chats about his 'Music Culture Change' podcast series. With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Architect Jefa Greenaway reflects on the United Nations sustainable development goals; and Lee Sheppeard, PhD candidate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, chats about her research into Sports for Development (SfD) for Aboriginal people, and the recent Federal Budget. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission...
Lawyer and researcher Eddie Synot comments on the Greens changed position on the Uluru Statement From The Heart; and NSW 2020 Young Australian Of The Year Corey Tutt chats 'Deadly Science' and his Eureka Award nomination. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
Writer Jack Latimore shares his response to the Black Lives Matter movement, discussing his new essay for 'Meanjin Quarterly' called ‘Through a Mask, Breathing’. Then author Thomas Mayor joins Daniel to discuss his latest book ’Finding Our Heart: A Story about the Uluru Statement for Young Australians’. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission
