Podcasts about Gumbaynggirr

Headlines: Unionists and anti-genocide protestors in Morocco refuse to service Maersk ships carrying F-35 PartsParents for Climate stand against Santos' $5.6 billion gas project Segments:- Three excerpts from professor Gary Foley's talk on Indigenous struggle and resistance of past, present and future held yesterday at Dardi Munwurro in Preston. Gary Foley is a Gumbaynggirr activist, artist, historian and writer. You can listen to the full lecture by Uncle Professor Gary Foley here. - First part of the speeches from the counter rally, held yesterday morning to Support harm reduction and evidence-based healthcare. Standing against stigma, scapegoating, and the criminalisation of people who use drugs.This rally was countering a network of North Richmond business owners, property developers, and local career politicians holding a rally in North Richmond which was promoting a “demand for action” in relation to “safety concerns” about people who use drugs. Part of an ongoing campaign targeting North Richmond's medically supervised drug consumption space and the demonising of people who use this service.  - Interview with Ian Rintoul, author of an article published in Socialist magazine Solidarity, about the CFMEU Administrator's plans. The CFMEU's Administration has announced the next phase of the government-appointed body: a three-year-long and as yet undisclosed 'Strategic Review'.  In its First Bi-Annual Report of the CFMEU — a document updating the Federal Minister for Workplace Relations on the Administrator's progress during its first six months — the Administrator claims multiple times the challenge against the Administration in the High Court has stymied its progress. Eight months in, just two of the dozens of CFMEU officials sacked across the continent when the Administration took control of the Union have formal charges laid against them: Michael and Darren Greenfield, two former NSW Officials, who are alleged to have received bribes from an employer. Music: Sunday Roast - Courtney Barnett  Community notes: - For information of your rights while being within a special designated area, click here. - North Richmond Community are hosting free overdose response training for community members, including residents, traders, and local services on Wednedays through to Fridays. Contact NRCH's Proactive Overose Response Initiative Team at naxolone@nrch.com.au or call 9418 9811 to register.

Voices 4 Palestine here II Dr Mehreen Faruqi (Greens Senator for New South Wales) & Dr Nick Riemer (Academic with the NTEU) Sydney Palestine rally on the 29th of March Recorded by Vivien Langford of the Climate Action show (3cr, Mondays 5pm).Song - Saat Saat (Love and Revenge)  - Rayess BekProfessor Ghassan Hage interview here II Tobia interviews Professor Ghassan Hage, Lebanese-Australian academic, about the real and intellectual war against Palestine and some advice for people in the movement.This is The Week that Was here II The inimitable Comrade Kevin keeps us up to date with the week as it was.Bulagan Ltd Language School interview here IIBirrugan speaks about Bulagan Ltd Language School, the new Gumbaynggirr language school in Nambucca Heads NSW, and the important work the school is doing there teaching language with Gumbaynggirr youth.Song - A Time To Cry - Rim Banna

Friends! Comrades! Welcome to another episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, continuing our series on Disaster, Crisis & Collective Futures. If you haven't already listened to the first couple of episodes in this series - never fear! You can jump in fresh here, or head back and listen to Episode 12 - After the Flood & Episode 13 - Disaster Communism with Nick Southall. In these episodes, we chatted about weather events like Cyclone Alfred & what happens during “disasters”: how the parameters of political possibility shift, sometimes incrementally, and sometimes all at once. We talked about two very different expressions of these political ruptures: “disaster capitalism,” where corporations and the state use these events as opportunities to expand state and corporate power and to find new frontiers of capitalist exploitation, and “disaster communism,” in which communities self-organise to support one another, forge networks of mutual aid and care, and build a genuinely radical sense of “class power.”This week, Nat, Jonno & I (Anna) decided to focus a bit more on the way that these dynamics operate in the specific conditions of settler colonialism, especially here in so-called australia. We're engaging with these topics as settlers, living uninvited on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands, and this is perhaps part of why we are so interested in the way that crises operate as key moments in which settlers are brought into new forms of colonial complicity. In particular, we are digging into a concept that we've been talking about for a few years now: the idea of “crisis colonialism.” We use this as a shorthand way to think about how settler colonial states use periods of crisis - economic depressions, world wars, ecological disasters - as fuel for settler colonial nation-building. In listening back to and editing this week's episode, I realised (largely thanks to a generative conversation with Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, whose incendiary and vital work you can find here and here) that a lot of what we're thinking about in this episode is affect - how people feel during crises, and how those collective emotions are operationalised and weaponised for a variety of political projects. This is a key part of both “disaster capitalism” and “disaster communism,” which we dig into in more detail at the beginning of this episode. But affect is also an important part of our analysis of “crisis colonialism,” and especially the way that settler colonies use moments of crisis to manufacture and secure settler consent for colonial governance through a rotating set of strategies, ranging from fear-based moral panics through to the construction of ideas of “mateship” and community. So in this week's episode, we're looking closer at these dynamics. How exactly do settler colonial states take advantage of periods of crisis? How do these moments become repurposed as fuel for nation-building? How does “securitisation” and policing fit into this process? And as settlers who are engaged in communities of struggle and committed to disrupting settler colonialism… how can we ensure that our collective efforts in these moments don't become fuel for the colonial project that caused the crisis in the first place? This is a big, juicy episode, which means that we talk about (or reference) a bunch of important scholarship that helps us to understand the origins of colonial racial capitalism and the “disaster” horizon of the present. In kicking off with some belated “definitional work,” as Nat puts it, we start by sketching out a working understanding of “disaster capitalism.” We continue our chat about Naomi Klein's 2007 “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and her formative analysis of the way that corporations and states alike use periods of disaster, or “shocks,” to cultivate new “frontiers” to exploit. Klein talks about a number of examples of this phenomenon: from the ways that the destructive impacts of “natural disasters” like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami can be used to create the conditions for massive land grabs and accelerated privatisation and development under the guise of “reconstruction”; through to the construction of an entire fear-based industry of “homeland security” after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US. We follow this with a very brief chat about Antony Loewenstein's (2015) Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe, where he expands and updates Klein's analysis to trace the diverse ways that disasters have become “big business,” looking at - as he puts it - the way that “companies cash in on or­ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.” A thread that we allude to in the podcast but don't extend is that these works are both interested in the affective impact of disasters on populations: the way that the confusion and “shock” of these events can be quickly turned into fear and suspicion which takes root within the established furrows of colonialism, racism and white supremacy; and which forms the basis of a new economy of privatised security, mass incarceration, and surveillance. Competing against this economy of fear, however, is a counter-economy of generosity, care and radical love that also takes root during disasters. We briefly return to Nick Southall's brilliant account of “disaster communism,” discussed at length in last week's show. We then turn our attention to the “permanent crisis” of settler colonialism, a phrase drawn from Robin D G Kelley's 2017 piece “Crisis: Danger, Opportunity & The Unknown,” in which he describes how colonial racial capitalism “produces something akin to a permanent state of crisis” because it is “built on fictions that must be constantly shored up, not for its victims but for those who stand to benefit.” We trace these contradictory fictions all the way back to the emergence of penal colonialism as a response to the crisis of prison overcrowding in Europe, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney and Sylvia Federici to emphasise that penal colonialism was both a form of, and a factory for, crisis-management techniques. Finally, we reflect on the many, violent fictions that have been required to enable and sustain the settler colonial project in so-called australia. We draw here on the incredible body of work by First Nations scholars, including Mununjahli & South Sea Islander scholar Chelsea Watego, Darumbal and South Sea Islander scholar and journalist Amy McQuire, Amangu Yamatji theorist Crystal McKinnon, Yuin scholar and criminologist Amanda Porter, Meintagk & Tanganekald scholar Irene Watson, Gumbaynggirr historian Gary Foley and Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson (among many others!) to understand the foundational contradictions of settler colonialism, and why they create the conditions of “permanent crisis” here in so-called australia.From here, I draw out a point that I explore in my PhD thesis (supervised by Chelsea Watego, David Singh, Liz Strakosch & Alissa Macoun), in which I argued that Indigenous peoples' unceded sovereignty and persistent resistance to colonisation represents a foundational and irresolvable contradiction for settler colonial states, which renders them constantly on the precipice of political crisis. This foundational crisis leads settler colonial states to develop robust and sophisticated techniques of crisis-management, ranging from repressive apparatus of policing, prisons, surveillance and punitive systems of state control; through to piecemeal liberal concessions, reforms, and promises of “inclusion.” So what does this mean for how we approach the coming storm? We end this episode with some reflections on how we can build our collective ability to resist colonial complicity: how to refuse the promise of liberal reform; how to reject all attempts to narrow our care, grief and rage to those deemed “grievable” by the colonial state; and how we might work to align ourselves instead with everyone, everywhere, who is fighting to dismantle the colonial capitalist death machinery that causes the “permanent crisis” of the present. Yours in solidarity,The Radio Reversal Collective This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radioreversal.substack.com

Country music legend and proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man, Troy Cassar-Daley, joins NITV Radio to yarn about his deep connection to Yuin Country, his recent performance commemorating the Black Summer Bushfires and his powerful song Windradyne, which won Heritage Song of the Year at the Golden Guitar Awards.

Gumbaynggirr man and physiotherapist Joe Bryant talks to manager of the Indigenous Australian Student Services at Southern Cross University Anthony Olive about why it's important to have Indigenous practitioners in healthcare, as he shares some of his experiences in the field. Southern Cross will offer a Bachelor of Physiotherapy for the first time in 2025 at the Coffs Harbour campus. The musical introduction to this podcast was written and performed by Alako Myles.

Reflecting on a year of phenomenal guests, we are bringing you a selection of the Best Conversations of 2024.Troy Cassar-Daley is one of Australia's most beloved country music stars, with a string of awards and albums to show for it.But his latest album, Between the Fires, is a reflective, deeply personal exploration of grief, love and his childhood, caught between the two worlds of his Indigenous mother and his Maltese-Australian father. Help and support is always availableYou can call Lifeline 24 hours a day on 13 11 14.Troy Cassar-Daley is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man, and one of Australia's most beloved country music stars.As a 17-year-old musician just starting out, Troy joined a band called Little Eagle. Soon afterwards, he won the Tamworth Starmaker Quest, and within a few years, Troy was a fully-fledged country music star.In his long career, Troy has won 40 Golden Guitars and 5 ARIA Awards, among many other accolades. In his latest album, Between the Fires, Troy digs deep into his own family history, with songs of grief, love and connection.This episode of Conversations contains discussions about country music, rock music, musicians, music teachers, country towns, driving, cars, vintage cars, Malta, Maltese, Indigenous culture, Aboriginal history, family, culture, multiculturalism, racism, intergenerational, family relationships, marriage, divorce, depression, grief, suicide, Country Music Association, CMA Awards, Golden guitars, music awards, Deadly awards, identity, 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thesundaypaperpodcast.substack.comThis week, we are playing you the second part of a two part interview with Professor Gary Foley. Professor Foley is an activist, academic and writer of Gumbaynggirr descent. He has played a leading role as an Aboriginal political organiser since the early 70s.In the first half of the interview, we heard Professor Foley speak about police violence and co…

 3CR Monday Breakfast is broadcast from 3CR on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.  Part 1 of an extended interview with Birrugan Dunn-Velasco, Indigenous language worker, based in Gumbaynggirr Country in the town of Nambucca Heads, about his personal connection to language and reflections as a language worker at the Muurrbay Language Centre and the Gumbaynggirr Gingana Freedom School that started in 2022// Speeches from two staunch local Palestinian organisers Mai Saif & Nour Salman, addressing the attendees of the weekly Free Palestine Rally, after the march at the steps of Victorian Parliament. You can attend the snap rally in support of Fatima Payman this Thursday at 6pm, Labour Party VIC headquarters - 438 Docklands Drive, Docklands// Part 2 of the interview with Birrugan, with his perspective on who language is for in First Nations spaces, the dream of a 'Goori Renaissance' and some personal reflections on NAIDOC Week// An interview with Chris Sebuliba, producer of the Incuriosity Complex podcast, whose first season 'Nice Black Aussies' will be featured on 3CR from 7:30pm on Tuesday evenings for the next several weeks. The podcast is in long-format narrative style, featuring in-depth interviews with local African Australians against the backdrop of a yearly African cultural festival, and investigates the multifaceted experiences of Africans in the diaspora. We discuss his background in academia, and subsequent process of research, learning and production for the series. Check out the podcast here//Music:Yurala - Spinifex GumMidas - Mo'Ju 

There are no universities left in Gaza.  Alicia Zhao & Samantha Haran take us through the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza, a soundscape of the Student Intifada. Field recordings from across so-called australia and a foundational teach in by Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti educator and poet Lizzie Jarrett.  Even in lulls and in the quiet, you can hear it. You can hear the possibility of another world brewing. In the spirit of collective action there were many people that made this piece possible. This piece was produced by Samantha Haran & Alicia Zhao; Scripting, USYD & UNSW recordings by Samantha Haran; Soundscapes by Alicia Zhao & Mateo Baskaran; Teach in by Lizzie Jarrett, co-organised and recording assisted by Rand Khatib; UQ recordings by Anna Carlson; Creative direction and final mixing and sound design by Shareeka HelaluddinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Mark 5: 21-43 The Very Reverend Naomi Cooke is an ordained Anglican priest and is currently the Dean of the Cathedral of Grafton in regional NSW's Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr country.  Naomi's spiritual formation has been shaped by a rich tapestry of ecumenical experiences. Her childhood faith was nurtured within the vibrant parish and youth movements of the Roman Catholic Church alongside the invitational discipleship of Sydney Anglican youth groups. She studied at a Baptist theological college, developed her vocation within the gentle and inclusive Anglo-Catholic traditions of regional QLD and NSW, worked within the democratic and inclusive ethos of the Uniting Church of Australia, and served for two decades as a School Chaplain in Independent Schools. With degrees in Theology and Arts (English Literature), she was amongst the first women in Australia to be ordained by a female Anglican Bishop and is only the 9th woman in Australia to be installed as a Dean of an Anglican Cathedral. Naomi works closely with First Nations communities in the journey towards Reconciliation and her ministry includes the creativity of Godly Play, Taize prayer, Prayer Spaces and Labyrinth reflections.

Two experts join the Mongabay Newscast to discuss the decline in koala populations in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), even as city councils and the government green light development projects on koala habitats that aren't being replaced by biodiversity offset schemes, ecologist Yung En Chee of the University of Melbourne, explains. Meanwhile, the promised Great Koala National Park has been delayed by NSW Premier Chris Minns, even as his state allows logging of koala habitat within the park borders while he tries to set up a carbon credit scheme to monetize the protected area, says journalist Stephen Long with Australia Institute. “I'm not sure how long this failure has to persist before we decide that we really ought to change course,” says Chee of the biodiversity credit schemes, which seem to be based on outdated data, and don't come close to satisfying their ‘no net loss' of biodiversity goals. See related coverage: How a conservation NGO uses drones and artificial intelligence to detect koalas that survive bushfires, here. If you want to read more on biodiversity offsetting and 'no net loss,' please read this resource from the IUCN. If you enjoy the Mongabay Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing. Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet, and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage, mongabay.com, or follow Mongabay on any of the social media platforms for updates. Please send your ideas and feedback to submissions@mongabay.com. Image: Gumbaynggirr Country is home to the dunggiirr, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), one of the totem animals for the Gumbaynggirr people. Koalas numbers are estimated to be in the tens of thousands in the state of New South Wales. Image by Steve Franklin via Unsplash (Public domain). -- Timecodes (00:00) Introduction (01:34) The Koala Crisis in New South Wales (04:33) Where is the Great Koala National Park? (06:39) Logging Activities and Government Delays (09:53) The Problem with Carbon Credits  (16:46) Interview with Yung En Chee (18:38) Biodiversity Offsets: Concept and Criticism (20:15) Failures in Biodiversity Offset Implementation (31:23) Double Dipping and Offset Market Issues (35:22) Conclusion

Inaugural Episode: An interview with Melanie Briggs In this inaugural episode of Birth Time: the podcast, we have a yarn with Aboriginal midwife legend Melanie Briggs. For those who have seen Birth Time: the documentary, you will know that we interviewed Melanie about the Birthing on Country Project and Waminda. We catch up with Mel to find out where things are at since the release of the doco. Melanie is an Aboriginal woman, mother of two and midwife. She is a descendant of the Dharawal and Gumbaynggirr peoples, living on Wandandian country within the Yuin nation. Melanie is a senior midwife and Birthing on Country Project Officer at Waminda, which is a Women's Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation. Waminda is Aboriginal-led and community controlled, and guided by the principles of self-determination. Melanie was the first endorsed Aboriginal midwife in NSW, and the second endorsed Aboriginal midwife in Australia. We talk with Mel about Birthing on Country (BoC), which is a continuation of thousands of years of knowledge and practice, which provides holistic maternal, child and family health care that embeds cultural integrity and safety during pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care. BoC is about Aboriginal women from community led by Elders and Aunties, to taking back control for their Minga's (mums) to birth healthy beautiful Gudjaga's (children) in a safe space that is centred around culture and then throughout the continuation of Minga's and Gidjaga's life cycle. Links Waminda Website: www.waminda.org.au Birth TimeWebsite: www.birthtime.worldInstagram: www.instagram.com/birthtimeworld Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthtimeworld Jerusha Website: www.jerusha.com.au Instagram: www.instagram.com/jerushasutton Facebook: www.facebook.com/jerushasuttonphotography Jo Website: www.midwifejo.com.au Instagram: www.instagram.com/midwifejohunter Facebook: www.facebook.com/MidwifeJo BIRTH TIME GIFT CARD: www.birthtime.world/watch-now THE HANDBOOK: www.birthtime.world/the-handbook MERCH: www.birthtime.world/shop Enjoying the podcast? Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Thanks for listening, we appreciate every single one of you.

Round six threw up the league's first two-minute suspension of 2024 as Giant Jamie-Lee Price was sent to the sideline. Fever have now shot four points clear to sit at the top of the ladder, while the Lightning brought the Vixens winning streak to an end.In the lead up to the first of a two-part First Nations Round this season we talk to Sharon Finnan-White – one of only three Indigenous Diamonds to have represented Australia throughout the team's 85-year history and a proud Dunghutti and Gumbaynggirr woman.We also take a look at what to expect from some of the teams when it comes to making a genuine connection with our First Nations culture in National Reconciliation Week.

One of Australia's greatest storytellers, Troy Cassar-Daley holds the record for most Golden Guitar Awards cementing the proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung as one of country music's greatest icons. Troy's new album BETWEEN THE FIRES is out now, recorded at his late mother's home, it is a powerfully moving collection of songs and stories.  Without hyperbolising, this may be one of the best conversations Alexei has ever recorded. Troy has picked some films that resonate deeply with him and those emotional connections prove to be fertile ground for laughs and some top-tier cinematic celebration. Complete with a staff pick of a western that needs to be crystallised into the canon of cinema's greats, the TCD visit might be the perfect episode of THE LAST VIDEO STORE. Watch the full episode on YOUTUBEFollow ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOS on Letterboxd for all the rental combo lists. Here's TCD's list up on Letterboxd.  Music & sounds by Rowan Dix Produced & Edited by Alex Jae and Xanon Murphy  Art by Hollow Bones Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Acknowledgment of Country Headlines Pippa speaks with John Smith, an associate member of the Black Peoples Union (BPU) and Community picket organiser for Webb Dock action, about the picket that started Fri 19 Jan, and the outcomes of the direct action. We replay two speeches from the 14th consecutive Free Palestine rally in Naarm-Melbourne and 100 days since the events of Oct 7. We hear from two First Nations people speaking about the connection between Indigenous sovereignty and Palestinian liberation with Uncle Robbie Thorpe, a Krautungalung/ Gunnai man, an Aboriginal activist, and 3CR broadcaster; and Prof Gary Foley, activist for the Gumbaynggirr people, academic, writer, and actor. Sonia speaks with Meriki Onus, a Gunnai/ Gunditjmara woman who grew up in Gippsland, and one of the co-founders of Warriors of Resistance, about the importance of the Pay the Rent campaign. Sonia speaks with co-editor Evelyn Araluen, a Goorie and Koori poet, and a descendant from the Bundjalung nation; and contributor Dr Micaela Sahhar, a Palestinian-Australian writer and educator, about  Micaela's writings in the Overland Journal and the Sydney Review of Books. TracksBarmah / AllaraWe Have Survived / No Fixed Address and Us MobBlack Woman / Emma DonovanChange has to come / MO'JU 

Coco Elder - The Never Never is on at Art2Muse Gallery until 18th September.  Bellingen Arts Trail 10-12th November  'My artwork is based on observations of the landscape and flora, notably in Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, and more recently in the Bellingen Shire. My initial study in Landscape Architecture has inspired my interest in geology and indigenous botanical landscapes. Overtime, I have witnessed the bush thrive in the wet, fight or recoil in the dry, and brought back to life after the fires. I hope to transcribe reverence for the Australian bush and to reveal the mysterious and alluring qualities of our native plants and the lie of the land.The natural landscape presents as an intriguing paradox. Up close, the bush is an unruly entanglement of prickly menace; from a distance, are distinct interlocking shapes that can be ordered by the eye into Cezanne's geometry. Patterns that appear on the macro level are reiterated at the micro. Whilst bodies of water lead the eye in and outwards through reflections, there is a mysterious chasm in time, yet it also appears infinite. Shadows of texture hem and define vibrations of light. I endeavour to capture some of these subtle ambiguities in my work.I retrace the place, coming closer to the essence of form, yet ironically remove it, by carving back through the surface. The image becomes a visual description that blends aspects of botanical documentation (like the early Australian artists); a journey through nature, (influenced by Japanese scrolls); and a personal expression through patterns of whimsy, and reflections on the past inhabitants, the Carigal and Gumbaynggirr people, whose presence are keenly felt.'thanks Coco for your time and good luck with the Bellingen arts trail! 

MMHS 15/08/23 - In this episode of the Men's Mental Health Show I yarn with Dharug woman Melissa Stubbings and Gumbaynggirr man Flinn Donovan about everything from staying well after drug and alcohol recovery, working on relationships, the voices of Aboriginal people, the frontier wars, cultural burning, justice circles, learning from mistakes and raising children. Melissa is the manager of the Merana cultural centre in the Hawkesbury and Flinn is a manager at the MYST Centre in the Blue Mountains.

 CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAugust 7th 2023Produced by Vivien Langford KICK PROFITEERS OUT OF THE DRIVER'S SEAT FORESTRY, COAL AND  OUR FUTURE Guests :Professor Christopher Wright - Sydney University co author of Organising Responses to Climate Change 'The barriers to climate action today aren't technological. They're political. Read this book to understand how polluters have created obstacles to the task of decarbonization and how we can fight back.' Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University and author of The New Climate WarOrganising Responses to Climate Change by Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden - 9781009266949 - Dymocks Miree Leroy - Move Beyond Coal on their win for people power. NAB says no to financing Whitehaven Coal - Move Beyond CoalAustralia has a big coal problemAustralia is one of the world's largest exporters of coal – the number one cause of climate change. Right now, corporations are planning to dig more new coal projects in Australia than anywhere else on the planet.It doesn't matter where Australia's coal is burned, people everywhere are facing the impacts here and now, with catastrophic floods, bushfires, heat waves, droughts, and more extreme weather events.We have a responsibility to act.  Dorothee Babeck - Bob Brown Foundation on AUGUST URGENT  NATIONWIDE campaign to Protect our forests Action - Defend the Giants - August 12th in Sydney at Addison Rd Centre Marrickville                                           - August 12th in Melbourne 11am Parliament steps + 10 other cities In the year of THE VOICE, First Nations people's voice is being strong armed off the scene. Watch this video and weep. (671) Gumbaynggirr Forests 50fps - YouTubeThis is the authentic voice of Gumbaynggirr elders as police move them out of Newry State forest and allow loggers in.https://nit.com.au/31-07-2023/7001/elders-physically-removed-from-sacred-land?fbclid=IwAR1uuNF_y4HG-uMpZ7GoqaX5r_h42Cc-aj_EUSPI5eXFHwUAWuP9gIqhPSM We know that native forest logging in New South Wales is economically wasteful, costing the taxpayer millions of dollars each year to prop up a loss-making industry. What's worse, is that these subsidies are paying for ecological destruction, the loss of our critical carbon stocks, and the extinction of species like the Koala and the greater Glider.Our native forests can be most beneficial to us by being protected and being allowed to continue to grow, to store carbon and to provide healthy ecosystems for people and animals alike.We call on the Treasurer to stop prolonging the inevitable. We want to see a rapid and ambitious end to native forest logging outlined in the next Statement of Corporate Intent.  

Michele identifies as an Gumbaynggirr/Yaegl Nyami (Woman in Gumbaynggirr)-accepted on Bundjalung Country. Michele champions social justice and seeks to work hard to increase equality & equity for First Peoples. As a Targeted Early Intervention Worker with Bugil Wernbe TEI Program-Tabulam District, Michele leads with an Indigenous Feministic practice, authentic Aboriginal Leadership & Aboriginal Governance which self-empowers to show up with and for community.   Today we talk about the challenges of the work Michele has been a part of, the power of Aboriginal people working with Aboriginal people and her passion for early intervention with children to help build strong families within the community.    Welcome Michele.   

In this episode of The Greener Way, we're speaking with Jack Latimore. Jack is the Aboriginal affairs journalist at The Age. He is a Birpai man with family ties to Thungutti and Gumbaynggirr nations.Later this year, Australian citizens will be asked to vote on in a referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.The Vote on Voice is being widely debated and many institutions including key Australian business and investors have either publicly come out in favour of the vote, or are mulling whether to publicly take a stance.Jack discusses discuss how he approaches covering this historic time for The Age, how he establishes sources within Indigenous communities and how people can better educate themselves as they consider how to vote later this year.More information:The Quarterly Essay – Megan Davis, Voice of Reason On Recognition and Renewal: Quarterly Essay 90 (https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/)Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, Gregory Younging (https://www.amazon.com.au/Elements-Indigenous-Style-Writing-Peoples/dp/1550597167)Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, Henry Reynolds https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/truth-telling/

Calumn Hockey is a self-taught adventure photographer who has embarked on a path as a conservation advocate. From humble beginnings using a compact digital camera (that broke after it got too dusty, RIP), he now captures compelling images showing devastating deforestation, climate change, and the plight of protest groups.In this chat we cover:  Was photography a passion?The beginning Camera technology Photojournalist Conservation photographer Logging image in Takayna Protest on Gumbaynggirr country Closing the climb of Uluru Shooting Trail RacesFor Wild Places Self TaughtCalumn's Idols - Renan Ozturk and Krystal Wright Freelance hustle  Current Gear Drone RescueBusiness Website Advice to Beginners See Calumn's striking imagery on his website and Instagram and get inspired to do good and follow your passions. Make sure to follow @we_are_explorers on Instagram for your daily dose of adventure. Enjoying the podcast? Why not subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an ep. It helps us continue to bring you epic adventure content!  Thanks to We Are Explorers Publisher Tim Ashelford for hosting this week.Producer - Sian Brain

Proud Wiradjuri, Dunghutti & Gumbaynggirr women, umpire Jordan Kiss and netball legend Sharon Finnan-White sit down ahead of 2023's First Nations rounds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What can we learn from the multigenerational wisdom of Gaelic tradition bearers about reconnecting our communities to places where we live, to our past and to our future in the changing climate? To explore these questions, Our Story Weaver, Lesley Anne, talked to Gaelic Officer for CHARTS, Àdhamh Ó Broin, about his journey into Gaelic tradition-bearing and activism, the role of land-based ritual in modern world and seven-generation thinking. The interview was inspired by the Spring equinox event, “Dùthchas Beò revitalising reciprocity with the Gaelic landscape”. This took place at ancient sacred sites of Kilmartin and Knapdale in Argyle and was a collaboration between Àdhamh and SCCAN's network coordinator for Argyle and Bute, Marie Stonehouse. Resources: CHARTS https://www.chartsargyllandisles.org/ Dùthchas Beò event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/556630325287 Gaelic pronunciation https://learngaelic.net/dictionary/index.jsp “The Good Ancestor – How to think long term in short-term world” by Roman Krznaric https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor “Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18693771 Transcript: [00:00:36] Kaska Hempel: Hello, it's Kaska, one of your Story Weavers. I'd like to take you to one of my favourite places in Scotland, Kill Martin Glen in Argyll. Imagine it's an early spring afternoon and you're standing at the wide bottom of a shallow glen surrounded by gentle hills. Dotted with trees on the verge of bursting into leaf. [00:01:01] Kaska Hempel: Birds fleet around in their branches and chatter with the spring excitement. You listen for the trademark territorial cuckoo calls, but they've not made it back from Africa yet. They'll be along in May, together with the blue bells. The sound of cars passing through the village breaks through the nature's spring soundscape, but it comes back even stronger after every wave of traffic. [00:01:26] Kaska Hempel: You look down the wide grassy glen and the skies moving medley of blue and the gray cloud. The sun hits your face with a fleeting kiss as the shapes shift above your head. In front of you is a circle of standing stones manmade, but they've somehow become part of the landscape covered in colourful mosaic of lichens. [00:01:50] Kaska Hempel: The more than 350 similar ancient monuments within a six mile radius of this village, with 150 of them prehistoric standing witness to more than 5,000 years of human history of this place. Your bare feet sink into cold, wet grass, and it feels like this place along with all the generations who'd passed through it is embracing you like a long lost friend. [00:02:18] Kaska Hempel: This is how I imagined the setting of Dùthchas Beò, a Spring Equinox event, which took place at ancient sacred sites of Kilmartin and Knapdale. It explored a revitalizing reciprocity with a Gaelic landscape. It was a collaboration between the Gaelic Officer Àdhamh Ó Broin from Argyll and Isles Culture, Heritage and Arts organisation, and SCCAN's Network Coordinator for Argyll and Bute, Marie Stonehouse. [00:02:46] Kaska Hempel: So what can we learn from the multi-generational wisdom of Gaelic tradition bearers about reconnecting our communities to places where we live, to our past and to our future in this changing climate? To answer these questions, our Story Weaver Lesley Anne talked to Àdhamh about his journey into Gaelic tradition bearing and activism, the role of land-based ritual in modern world and seven generation thinking. [00:03:14] Kaska Hempel: But before we go any further, I would like to profusely apologize for my Gaelic pronunciation in this introduction. I'm a complete novice at this. Now, to start us off, Àdhamh introduces two concepts at the core of Gaelic identity and culture. [00:03:32] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Dùthchas, which is the name of the event. Dùthchas Beò. Dùthchas, coming from the concept of dùth, which is an old word for people, and dùthaich, which is country. Land that is inhabited by people and therefore dùthchas is that inimitable connection with the place where your people have sprung. Now, for me though, this is quite difficult to articulate fully. Because I don't have a great sense of dùthchas with the place that my people came from because they're all gone. [00:04:07] Àdhamh Ó Broin: They're all either cleared or forced to leave through economic circumstance. And I've been getting back up to my mother's area in, in Latheron Parish, in Caithness and getting my bare seat in the ground and trying to encourage the dùthchas to return to me there. And I've been doing the same in Ireland as well. But Argyll, the area that I grew up in, in the area that I'm probably most well known for being a tradition bear in, I don't have any ancestor connection to, so I've been adopted by the land there. [00:04:36] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I feel very, very welcome there and I feel respected and appreciated by the land, by some people in the area. But for people who perhaps let's just see, you know, your from the Isle of Barra. And you know, you can trace back several generations on all sides. And so you and your people have always been from Barra. Then that sense of dùthchas is incredibly strong because you not only still inhabit the land of your ancestors, but you can trace the movements of your ancestors, you know, right across the landscape. [00:05:05] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So that's the dùthchas thing. It's ancestral relationship with land and feeling of connection with it. So if dùthchas is the land and your relationship with it and your right to remain on that land and being in relationship with that land, then dualchas is the manner in which you described that relationship. So dualchas is you know, your stories, your songs, your Proverbs, your local history, all that side of things. [00:05:27] Àdhamh Ó Broin: But it's specifically that which is inherited from generations before you. You know, so dùthchas is the land and your relationship to that and dualchais is the stories of the consistent relationship with that land as told by your ancestors. So they're utterly crucial to the, well, my name's if I was to introduce myself in sort of Ancestral styles you might put it in Is mise Àdhamh, mac Sheumais bhig, 'ic Sheumais mhóir, 'ic Diarmuid, 'ic Sheumais, 'ic Mhurchaidh, 'ic Sheumais. [00:05:58] Àdhamh Ó Broin: That's referencing seven generations of my father's line and all the way back to Wicklow in Ireland. And so I suppose that if you're referencing seven generations back and honouring your ancestors, that far back then you're kinda making a commitment to be a good seventh generation. If we're lucky enough to get to that stage with the state things are in, but you know, so, that's who I am in the Gaelic sense in terms of professional end of things. [00:06:28] Àdhamh Ó Broin: My work goes from very organic tradition bearing, picking up things that are about to get lost and keeping them and hopefully passing them on. So that's culture, songs, stories, Proverbs, anecdotes, words, idioms. It goes from that right across to consulting on films. At the moment, is mise Oifigear Cultair Ghàidhlig, i'm Gaelic Culture officer at CHARTS Argyll and the Isles, so we're a member led arts organisation and in that I have remit for Gaelic culture. [00:07:07] Lesley Anne Rose: I mean, that sounds like one of the best jobs in the world, but you've also got the role of a tradition bearer. I'd love it if you could share a little bit more about what that role actually involves, and how, if anything, your journey to becoming a tradition bearer is in any way linked to your climate change journey. [00:07:24] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Yeah. I'd always been environmentally focused since I was a child. You know, I think like anybody else with their head on straight, you know, they have spent a reasonable amount of time watching David Attenborough as a child, you know? So, you know, it came from that. And I remember there was a programme called Fragile Earth. [00:07:41] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I used to watch that every time it was on, and I was sort of ethically vegetarian, you know, was brought up that way with my father, in fact. Growing up and I just always had one eye on that. Grew up in the country and just felt intrinsically connected to nature and it was bonkers that they were mistreating it. I mean, it just didn't make any sense whatsoever. [00:07:59] Àdhamh Ó Broin: My father's people are all Irish, my mother's folk are predominantly from Highland Caithness, although I grew up in Argyll so a wee bit of a kind of Gaelic mix there. Highlanders and Irish folk are essentially one people, the Gaelic people, and folk from the Isle of Man as well. So it's really, it's an ethnicity, you know, and it happens to now be [00:08:14] Àdhamh Ó Broin: quite divided by geopolitical boundaries, but the vast majority of people on the ground in the Highlands and Islands saw themselves as Gaels you know. But I never got that immediate everyday sense of who I was. I'm not a first language Gaelic speaker. As a child growing up in Cowal, I didn't have the language or culture passed down by my parents, but was very strongly encouraged by my only grandmother to pick the language of our people back up. [00:08:44] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I came home to there after 10 years in Glasgow, and found that the language is on its very, very last legs, local dialect in central Argyll. And so I began to, as I said before, collect all these things that were getting lost and interviewing old people, some of whom couldn't speak the language fluently, but had loads of memories of it being spoken in words and praises and all sorts of things. [00:09:11] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And then I brought up my children, with myself, my wife and three kids, all of them are fluent Gaelic speakers. And myself, my wife. Our three. Our first language speakers. I've never spoken any English in the house to them, so that means that the dialect of central Argyll is a living language once again, even though all the native speakers have unfortunately now passed away. [00:09:33] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I suppose what happened was that. Because I had to struggle so hard to get the language back. I mean, not that it was difficult learning it, it felt like just placing bits of the jigsaw puzzle back into my brain, you know where they belong. Back into my soul. But you know, it's still challenging to do that with a young family and working and all the rest of it. [00:09:51] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So as the years rolled on, that momentum of learning the language never left me. Once I had the language fluently, then I started going around the Highlands and, and recording, you know, tradition bearers and recording the dialects that were dying, you know, and many of my friends, my old friends and in different glens and islands and what have you have now passed on. [00:10:16] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I'm very thankful to them for holding onto the language long enough for me to be able to learn it from them. But, I don't have that sense of intergenerational transmission. And so it's been a sense of rather than just what's normal and, you know, been happening for generations, it's been a sense of urgency and necessity that's caused me to tradition bear. [00:10:35] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I saw a lot of things that were being lost, as I said, and I didn't see anybody else holding onto them, and I saw they were about to go, you know, and you're talking about spruilleachd, it's like, you know, almost like the crumbs that are left after you've touched yourself a slice of bread. You know, the breads actually long gone, but these crumbs are still there. [00:10:54] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And if you pick them up, you can more or less sort of, you know, get a chewable bite out them, you know. And that's I suppose what tradition bearing is all about in a minoritized culture that is, you know, lost sort of 95% of its richness and speakership. So, tradition bearing for me is something that I've stumbled into backwards in an accidental fashion and now realize that I'm a tradition bearer and now realise that there aren't that many people like me, especially in the mainland, and it's almost like you're gathering up all the family photographs as you run outta the burning house, and then you're standing outside them all and suddenly you're the keeper of the photographs. But actually, you know, you hadn't even looked at them in 20 years, you know, and suddenly it's like, well, these are really important because everything else is gone. [00:11:40] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Ultimately, if they're valuable things, somebody needs to pick them up and safeguard them. [00:11:46] Lesley Anne Rose: That's lovely. There's so much sort of vivid imagery that you've shared with us. Thank you. That phrase you used about, I came to it backwards. I would just like to pick that a little bit more in relation to climate change. [00:11:56] Lesley Anne Rose: Partly from interviewing someone up in Skye who is also a tradition bearer and they used the really beautiful metaphor or analogy that tradition bearing is the same as rowing a boat. Although you are, you are going forwards, but all the time you are looking backwards. And they were very keen to impress that tradition bearing isn't something that's about sort of stuck in the past about old sepia photos. It is very much a role that has a responsibility to look forwards as well. And just again, in terms of that sort of, onus around climate and looking after the land and tradition and people, how do you see that role of a tradition bearer in safeguarding the future, if you like, as well as the past? [00:12:37] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Yeah, it's a great question. And I would agree strongly with the person that you'd spoken to there. I would just add that I'm not scared to look back to the past. I think in the modern world, people, they almost feel like they need to virtual signal about technology to say we are okay with technology. [00:12:52] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Yes, we are grasping it all. Yes, we want it all, we're not against it. But you see, as anybody who's aware of environmental degradation, we know that technology in and of itself is not necessarily a good thing unless it is weighed up with the potential consequences and ramifications of its overuse. [00:13:07] Àdhamh Ó Broin: We know that from the industrial revolution. You don't have to constantly convince people that Gails aren't old quarry people in sweaters, you know, stuck on crofts who never ever go anywhere else. We, you know, we know that's not true, but that comes from a long, long period of internalized colonialism. And you know, people were told it was holding back and told that, you know, if you were from the Highlands and Islands, you're just a daft Teuchter and all the rest of it. [00:13:31] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, it's inbuilt in people so I understand it, but I think we need to get away from it. It's actually ok to value old things and it's okay to think for some people to feel much more comfortable with old things and older people and older traditions than they do with a lot of the traps in the modern world. [00:13:49] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I'm certainly one of them, you know. So in terms of the environmental connection though, I don't believe climate change is happening or there's nasty things going on with the environment in the world. Because if anything that I've been told in a top down fashion by, you know, academic institutions or governments or organisations, I believe that there's something fundamentally wrong with the natural patterns in the world because our lore doesn't fit the weather anymore. [00:14:19] Àdhamh Ó Broin: That's why I believe it. You look at phrases and things used to describe the weather that have been in place for decades, if not centuries, if not longer than that, and they don't fit anymore. There's one, for instance, you know, [00:14:34] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I'm paraphrasing that, I can't remember the exact phrases, but if there's snow in the ditches in early February, then you know that the worst of the winter's actually over. But if it's really dry and warm and sunny at that point, then you know that you're gonna get a right, nasty, flurry of snow still. [00:14:51] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And of course, every year you don't necessarily get that sort of thing. You don't get these signs, you don't get these things happening where you can just set your watch by it practically. And so that for me is where tradition bearing and keeping this language used, allows us to map out what's going on with the weather and what changes are happening because these phrases are a set of orienteering points that you can map the wheel of the year through. [00:15:16] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And if things are out of place then you've got that ability to explain quite explicitly how by reference to these things that have been in place for centuries. [00:15:25] Lesley Anne Rose: I mean I love that idea. That sort of local knowledge is just as important and should be taken just as seriously as any sort of top-down information and just how empowering that is and how respectful that is to both our ancestors, but also our own knowledge as well. [00:15:40] Lesley Anne Rose: I'd just like to expand upon in what you've just explained. The first phrase that you said, which I made my ears prick up. Tradition bearers aren't afraid of the past. And certainly what I found with a lot of the climate change work that I've done within communities and on a wider scale as well, there's been a real push to heal the past. To tell untold stories of the past, if you like. [00:16:03] Lesley Anne Rose: Before any planning for any more sustainable, just future. And I just wondered, is there a role there or do you see a role within the tradition bearers that is actually healing the past, respecting the past, telling the story of the past, understanding the past as a natural first step before we can even begin to think about a just transition or a more sustainable future? [00:16:30] Àdhamh Ó Broin: In terms of the past and healing. Things that have happened. I mean, we carry it all in our dna. We carry it all in our bodies, you know, keeps the score. It's about your life experiences. And I can't remember the author there, but it's about how your body essentially is a carrier for all the trauma you experience through your life. Well, all the good things and the bad things. But we're also carriers of all that our ancestors have experienced because, well, where else can it go? [00:16:56] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, depending on people's religious beliefs, maybe some of it does dissipate when the soul leaves the body. But who knows? Who knows? It's all speculation. But I don't think there's any doubt that ancestral trauma is a real thing, and I feel it implicitly whenever I go over to Ireland and I visit mass grave sites from the genocide there are otherwise known as the famine, you know, all the rest of it. I find myself having to go through very, very heavy leaving phases for all these things. [00:17:26] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I've got one cousin still left in the place my mother's people belong to. Otherwise, I have to walk through the ruins of the houses of my people who are forced to leave as economic migrants. The idea is that you're having to walk through all these shadows of past brutalities and you're having to somehow through all that hurt and pain. [00:17:50] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Extract from the cold ashes of the hearths of your ancestors, the embers that are worth taking with you, and carry them carefully out of these ruins and find somewhere appropriate to start a new fire with them. And that's really hard. You know, nobody gives you a guide book for these things. [00:18:07] Àdhamh Ó Broin: It's ancestral work. Well, it's both ancestral cultural imperative. And as when I'm communicating with a lot of my indigenous friends, you know, they'll talk about their elders. And I think, yeah, lucky sods, whatever, because they've still got elders. I mean, you think of the hellish grief that so many indigenous people have been through, and you think of that, and yet they still have so many people around the world. [00:18:30] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So many indigenous people have still retained that intergenerational connection where their elders are still important to them. And in so many Western societies, they're just getting packed into old folks homes. And I mean, these are the gold of the human race. You know, the golden generation. You've got knowledge that is, it's irrevocable because it only comes from life experience. [00:18:50] Àdhamh Ó Broin: My elders are people that i've bumped into, because I was looking for people like them and ended up forming really close friendships. And so when I talk about my elders, you know, I'll talk about. Somebody up in Melness in the far north of Sutherland, even though my people don't come from there. [00:19:09] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I talk about a friend of mine who just passed away at the new year. There was a fisherman from Applecross. You know, I'll talk about, the fellow who was the last speaker of my dialect in mid Argyll, who passed away heading for three years ago now. And yet none of these people are blood related to me. [00:19:27] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So you're having to sort of cradle these last embers and you're having to try and support people who are already old and knackered and used to their knowledge being sidelined. You're having to hold them and hold space for them to give them the chance, and breathe that last bit of life in so that they can bestow something to you as a legacy that you can pass on your children and start the intergenerational transmission again. [00:19:54] Àdhamh Ó Broin: That's the one thing that's different for myself and other people who have lost the intergenerational structure to folk who have managed to maintain right relationship with their elders, is that there's no guidebook. And when you're seeking these things out and you're wondering how to take them into the future, there is no hard and fast rules and you're having to fly by the seat of your pants with nothing but your instinct and your intuition. [00:20:18] Lesley Anne Rose: You've described that just so very beautifully, that connection that you have with land and how that influences your role. Within that, do you feel that a tradition bearer is very much a sort of role for rural setting? Can people live in that urban setting and have that same sense of tradition and tradition bearing? [00:20:35] Lesley Anne Rose: As you can clearly, if you've got that much sort of wider daily, deeper connection to the natural landscape, [00:20:41] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I think you can, and the manner in which they can is to lean perhaps slightly more than you might in a rural setting with a thinner population to lean on people more in an urban setting. When you think about, for instance, Glasgow, I went school in Glasgow and here I would say that tenement life was an incredible setting where traditions came and went. [00:21:11] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Were upheld and let go of, you know, where there was a sense of etiquette. You know, even it was just about who was cleaning the landing, you know, and people looked after one another's kids and the kids all ran about the dunnys out the back and you know, there was a absolute sense of community. [00:21:28] Àdhamh Ó Broin: There's a sense of everybody looking after one another. Yeah. Terrible problems with drink, domestic violence, unemployment, poverty. Absolutely. It was all there. But the fact of the matter is people dealt with it undoubtedly as a community, you know, working Glaswegian people undoubtedly had a sense of identity that was pretty unique and it's still there. [00:21:48] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And that the lovely thing is that if you get out and about in Glasgow, you stand and talk to somebody at a bus stop or on a bus or in a pub, you'll still get that richness of expression and humor and story. An anecdote in history. And there's no doubt that in terms of richness of expression and sense of place, there are people in Glasgow that are just as capable of carrying that forward as there would be in a rural setting. [00:22:15] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And, you know, a crofting community in Lewis or wherever, it's a different flavour, but it's the process of tradition bearing. The idea of holding onto things that are valuable and passing them forward intentionally. Because they helped to express a sense of place and a sense of history and a sense of what it means to be a person within that space. [00:22:36] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And that's really what tradition bearing's all about. I'm trying to get back to this idea at the moment and, you know, the event with yourselves was part of that. I would love it if people could accept this idea that actually there's not a single person on planet Earth that isn't a tradition bearer because all of our history and all of the way that we as individuals have experienced things are all unique perspectives. [00:23:00] Àdhamh Ó Broin: The difference between not being a tradition bearer and being a tradition bearer is activating the tradition bearing mechanism within you to appreciate and be aware in a daily sense that what you know and what you've experienced and the perspective you've built through that is actually, it's a form of tradition bearing, and you don't have to be a great talker, a great storyteller. [00:23:28] Àdhamh Ó Broin: A great singer. You simply have to be willing to pass it on and pass it on in as digestible a format as possible. So tell people the fascinating things. Tell people the exciting things. Tell people the difficult things. Don't shy away. From, you know, the fact that there could be a big story under seemingly incidental details. [00:23:50] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I've said in the urban sense, you lean on people because they're all around you, you know, and maintaining community and being able to actually struggle against malign influences, you know, such as climate change. It is about staying in communication with people. So you need to lean on people in an urban setting because it's too easy to just sit in your box and stare at screens, you know? [00:24:11] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And before screens came into things, there was a verve and an intensity to urban life, which has since died off because people are stuck with the latest opiate of the masses, which is no longer religion. It's now social media. Now, rural communities would maybe say that they relied on each other more, but that's simply because of a different type of infrastructure. [00:24:32] Àdhamh Ó Broin: There's a less recognisable infrastructure, and so people relied on one another in a practical sense, perhaps more, but there's no doubt that you're more socially isolated in a rural setting when houses are further apart. So you rely on the the land there, you have the opportunity to sit quietly and listen to the rhythms of the land. [00:24:52] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So that could be the wind, that could be the larks singing above your head, you know, it could be bees flying past your ears, could be seagulls, could be whatever. And exposing yourself to these rhythms dictates the manner in which you tradition bear. So if you are somebody who has long held exposure to a rural setting and either generations of it or just something you've done yourself to try and return to that tradition, then you'll find your tradition in the manner which you do it. [00:25:19] Àdhamh Ó Broin: If it's not set by ancestral accumulation of expression, then it's set by natural rhythms. Because technology does provide artificial rhythms. It provides hums and buzzes and things that are imperceptible, we don't even know are happening. And glares and things that interrupt the bio clock. Our sleeping patterns. So getting out and paying close attention to the rhythms of nature and allowing that to start to reprogram you again, learning your own ancestral language, whatever. [00:25:49] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And if you're English, you already speak your ancestral language which is a fantastic advantage. Even looking into local dialect that's been lost, whatever, learning these things and exposing yourself to the natural rhythms. So traditional rhythms and natural rhythms. Then programs the manner in which you tradition bear. [00:26:04] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So the urban thing is there's a more intense mix of people and it's possibly more immediately social and it's noisier and it's more active, and the rural ones quieter, but they're both still perfectly valid forms of tradition bearing. You just need to lay yourself open to it and believe that the things that you feel are beautiful and worthwhile and necessary to tell are gonna be equally so for others. [00:26:27] Lesley Anne Rose: I mean, that's just a lovely lesson for anyone to take into life about our story being beautiful and to believe in it and to tell it. And I suppose on a wider level, and this isn't me, I hope, putting words into your mouth, what you seem to have articulated about tradition bearing is it's about holding, telling and holding that story of the community. [00:26:46] Lesley Anne Rose: And honouring and respecting it and making sure everyone has voice within that, and whatever setting that is. The story is, I suppose, the glue that holds communities and people together. And we all know that strong, resilient communities are gonna be essential in terms of a changing climate and a just transition, which makes that role of that story holding, that tradition bearer, just even more important as we move into changing times. [00:27:11] Lesley Anne Rose: I think what would be really nice now if you just give us some examples or just talk through actually some of the work that you've done. Now, you mentioned that you've collaborated with Marie Stonehouse, who's the SCCAN Regional Climate Action Network Coordinator for Argyll and Bute, and that you recently did a celebration of the Equinox. [00:27:28] Lesley Anne Rose: I wondered if you could just talk us through that event, what you did, the thinking behind it. [00:27:34] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Marie was great craic and we got on a call similar to this one and before we'd gone even 20 minutes I think we'd already come up with this idea. And i've been stepping into ceremony with different indigenous nations, you know, consistently over the last. [00:27:56] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So six, seven years. And initially, of course, people would probably say, well, how could you possibly know how to hold ceremony with indigenous people on a land that's lost all that ceremony? That's been entirely Christianized. And since then, secularized. How would you know how to hold natural ceremony and well, I didn't have a clue what to do to bring people into ceremonies, the first clue. [00:28:27] Àdhamh Ó Broin: But I knew that I had to bring my kids through some kind of coming of age because we've lost coming of age ceremonies. And it's strange though, that perhaps people are so questioning of the idea of ritual and ceremony when they're perfectly happy to get married. Perfectly happy to go through that whole rig ma role, which really speaking for many folk is completely bizarre and unnecessary. [00:28:49] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I mean, I'm married myself, but you know, a lot of other people won't be, and when they find that it's perfectly adequate and they just love the person they're with, and that's great. Don't need to go through the rig ma role. But for some people the rig ma role is very Important. It's like, again to use this analogy, a set of orienteering posts. That you can work through so you can disengage your creative mind for a moment and just be brought through different stages in order for your brain and your soul and your heart to turn through the rotations of the wheel and move through the experience, without having to necessarily guide yourself through it. [00:29:20] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And that's what ritual's all about. So let's take this concept back a few notches and let's think about, I think I was saying to the folk when we were out the other day for the event with Marie, Dùthchas Beò. I said to the folk at the beginning about this idea of ritual and it's like, well, let's say you haven't seen very elderly, very knowledgeable, very beautiful soul, a relative for 30, 40 years because you've been overseas working and you only just return. [00:29:50] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And I said to them, well, you know what would you do? What was the first thing you would do? And they're like, well, we'd go and visit. Right. Okay. And what do you think you would do when you visited? Well, I'd definitely take something with me like, you know, a nice, you know, packet of shortbread or, you know, I'd bake some scones or something. [00:30:07] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Right. Nice. I like your thinking there. Great. And then what would you do once you got there? Well, you know, we'd have the kettle on. Have a cup of tea, maybe have a wee dram. Right, exactly. And then what would you do? Oh, well, I think we would just, we'd just talk. We'd just chat. Right. Okay. So you've pretty much set out the steps that are necessary to get back into good right relationship with somebody. [00:30:33] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So I said, well, why would it be any different with the land? [00:30:39] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know? And everyone's like, ah, the man's got a point. Now you think about it, right? You visit the land, you get back in familiarity and you say, look, I'm back. I know I've been away so long and I'm really sorry, but look. Quite frankly us is a species in the Western world. We've been away quite a long time. [00:30:57] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So just letting you know I'm back. I wonder if I could come and visit you again sometime. And when you come and visit, well, you bring an offering, you know, and you make that offering to the land because the lands your host, you know the land's giving you beauty. It's giving you fresh water to drink sometimes. [00:31:16] Àdhamh Ó Broin: It's giving you bird song. It's entertaining you. It feels beautiful, and you get fresh water to drink out of aruns and rivers and bogs, and it's giving you everything you could possibly need. You've got berries to pick and eat. It's feeding you. It's giving you a libation. And what, you show up and don't offer anything. I mean, what? What? It's just rude, but for me it's incredibly verging on pragmatic. [00:31:37] Àdhamh Ó Broin: The idea of ritual and ceremony in the land. It's what I do. I return to the land and I make some small offerings, and I offer a wee dram and I have a wee dram myself and I have a conversation with the land. And I go to places where people have been having conversations for centuries. So I'm not the first one showing up here and going, oh, I'm, I'm gonna have some mad new age ritual happening. No, quite the opposite. I'm showing up in a place, say the place we went to for Dùthchas Beò. For the event. Where there's a frustration cross. So Christian Pilgrims have come off the road for hundreds of years and said their prayers and there's a well there. [00:32:13] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And they've done their absolutions and then carried on along the way. The Christians, let's be honest, could be crafted back in those early days, they picked sites that were already in use and went, right, you know, we'll have it, you know, and we've continued to accept it would be Christianized. So before that place we went to. Kilmory Oib it's called. Ób Chille Mhoire. That place would've had a pagan past. [00:32:35] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I say Pagan, that's what we call it now. It would've had a land-based religious practice. And so for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, people have been coming and making offerings and doing their absolutions and saying their prayers at that point. So me going back there and doing that and making these offerings and spending that time and getting back into conversation with the land and reestablishing a working relationship and perhaps even after time, it becomes a friendship. [00:33:00] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And I certainly found it out. When I went to these places to start with. I mean, I was just stotting about. Not really sure what to do because, you know, it takes time, it takes consistency and it's the same when you go into somebody's house and especially an old person, they kinda go, this person's all about. [00:33:15] Àdhamh Ó Broin: The intentions are. I mean, the land's the same, the land does the same thing. And eventually you realize that you're incredibly comfortable there and you go through the same ritual every time, and you just feel held by the land. You feel supported in what you're doing and you can confess all your fears and doubts and it just hears you and it holds you. [00:33:32] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Now, some people might do that, if they're a Christian, they might do it in a Christian way. They might make their players to Jesus, to God, that's absolutely grand. That works just fine as well. You know, if they're Muslim, they might decide to roll out their prayer mat and say their prayers in that spot. [00:33:45] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, brillant. That doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me because ultimately it's, you know, it's about reestablishing regular, meaningful relationship with the land, whatever the flavour of that may be, and doing that with other indigenous people who still have that practice and have had that practice handed down to them. [00:34:06] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Remarkable the amount of things that they recognize in my practice. Go, that's exactly what we do. How'd you know how to do that? And I go, I dunno, the land just kept me right. I dunno how to do that. No, I don't. I dunno. I couldn't even answer that. They, they're like, you're on the right path because that's how we do things and you know, we've got thousands of years tradition on our site, you know. [00:34:28] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So stepping into ceremony and offering indigenous people when they visited, the chance to take their socks and shoes off and to get into relationship and to come and visit our great elder who is the land, you know, to come and visit mother earth. And so folk from the Maori nation, Mohawk from the, uh, Wet'suwet'en and Co-Salish and Tlingit and Gumbaynggirr people from Australia and Karajá people from the Amazon rainforest you know, Mapuche from Chile and people from the Andes and you know, and also Basque folk you know and Welsh folk, and Irish folk, you know. [00:34:49] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So we've had all kinds of people that belong to indigenous nations and have an ongoing relationship with the land. Come to Argyll and get into a relationship with our land and leave their blessings and bring their energy. And every single time I've had someone visit, I've learned something. All of these indigenous people, which has then fed back into my practice. [00:35:11] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Now remember my friend Clark Webb, a fantastic language revitaliser of Gumbaynggirr people in Australia. And he says to me, how do you introduce yourself to the land? And I was like, well, I sometimes take a little saliva and I rub it on a rock. If I come to a sacred place that has a longstanding, you know, standing stone, I find myself rubbing my saliva. [00:35:27] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And he was like, ah. He said, because when our people come to the land, we take sweat off our brow and rub it on the land to introduce ourselves to land. So how did you know how to do that? I'm like, well, I don't know, maybe I saw something about you doing that or like your other indigenous peoples doing that. [00:35:42] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I dunno where it came from, but it was intuitive and it stuck and then it turned out other people did similar things and then it got the stage where i was like, well this is all very well, you know, with having fantastic guests from all around the world. But ultimately if we're going to. We're gonna turn this situation around and get people paying attention to their environment and investing in the environment and thinking of it is something that is crucially important because otherwise they're held by nothing. [00:36:10] Àdhamh Ó Broin: They exist in a vacuum, you know, then we need to start sharing this stuff. And so that's how we got to the point where when I started talking with Marie, then it seemed natural. You use the partnership between CHARTS and SCCAN. As the point to begin to share this with folk that belong to these islands and not just special guest appearances as it were. You know, so more like an open mic, rather a touring act. [00:36:38] Lesley Anne Rose: That's lovely. I mean, what you've just explained really has made it very accessible for people who are confused. Don't know how to begin that to reconnect with our landscape, wherever that is, whether that's an urban park or the coast or a forest. [00:36:55] Lesley Anne Rose: I would really love to return to what you mentioned at the start about seven generations and seven generation thinking. Which is a concept that really chimes with me because I live in a community that's seven generations old. So it's a really nice hook for the residents here to think about what we need to do now. [00:37:13] Lesley Anne Rose: To be good ancestors and think in terms of the coming seven generations and what they'll need from us. So in terms of that sort of seven generation thinking, if you want to unpack that a bit more, but also this might be a bit of a cheesy question, but if you could go back seven generations, what would you thank your elders for? [00:37:33] Lesley Anne Rose: And then I suppose equally because, you know, the kind of subject we're talking about is a changing climate. If you could imagine your children's, children's, children's seven generations coming back in time to you now, what do you think they would ask you for? [00:37:48] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Yeah, quite challenging. I think they'll articulate this because I suppose if I had carried on, in the vein that was set for me, then I would've just carried on into more isolation and you know, more of a socially fragmented state. I have a half brother, but I'm an only child from my parents, and by the time it got to me, they were sort of an accidental couple. I'm an accidental baby, you know, my parents split up very quickly after that. So there's a lot of accidentality to my situation and my people being quite distinct. [00:38:25] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, highland, lot of them, part of the free church, and then Irish Catholics, which is a classic Glasgow story in fact. But, everything had fragmented to the most incredible degree. The time it got to meet my Irish people. The Irishness had been completely jettisoned by the time it came to my father. Absolutely jettisoned. [00:38:41] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Anything Irish had been thrown in the bin, you know, to save further generations from the trauma of, I mean, you know, 1920s Glasgow and the anti-Catholic, anti Irish racism is absolutely horrific. The Razor gangs flying about and all rest of it. So the time it came down to me, there really couldn't have been much more lost. [00:39:02] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So when I look back through those seven generations, you know, if I go from myself, I go to my father who was a World War II vet, I go to his father who was a World War I vet, and my father had PTSD. My grandfather died of his wounds. He was machine gun gas kicked by a horse, my father's PTSD that affected his entire life. [00:39:25] Àdhamh Ó Broin: He campaigned lifelong for nuclear disarmament. You know, he used to debate with Jimmy Reid down at the Clyde side. You know, my father is right in the thick of it all. Hung around with Roy McLellan, the publisher, and Alasdair Gray, you know, and Tom Lennon, all these people in Glasgow authors at the time. All the rest of it. And a lot of the Glasgow artists as well. [00:39:42] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And that was because of the experiences in the war. And then his father, my father sat at his bedside, you know, he was 12 and so his father died of his first World War wounds, you know, and then his father died after a pulmonary embolism, after being assaulted in a police cell. He was a policeman. [00:39:59] Àdhamh Ó Broin: An Irishman come over to Glasgow who was a police inspector ultimately, and then, you know, his father before that then is the genocide survivor, you know, survivor of the famine in Ireland. And when I'm looking back through all these, you know, the amount of trauma that's come down to me and I'm the first generation to turn back round and face it all. [00:40:17] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So looking back to those seven generations thinking what would I thank them for, what would I ask them for, I would thank them for their forbearance. I would thank them for the fact that I've even had the chance to be here. It is absolute fluke that I'm here and that my ancestors are not lying, you know, skeletal in a mass grave in Ireland. [00:40:39] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, it is absolute fluke that my grandfather was not shot or gassed to death in the first World War, that he survived long enough for him and my grandmother to have my father. It's incredible that my father's tank wasn't the one that was blown up on the first day of action, but it was his best friend's tank next to him that was blown up and that he made it through and got back here and happened to completely randomly bump into my mother. [00:41:05] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, and then I look at my mother's side, and I think of her father, you know, walking miles to school on his bare feet in the Highlands. And then a generation back and terrible alcoholism and domestic abuse. I look through all these things and they're still unremarkable, my situation. I mean, it's just the same as anybody else's [00:41:22] Àdhamh Ó Broin: when we look back and see all the trauma and all the horror and all the brutality, you know. And what I would just want to say to those generations, you know, back there, is just, as I said, thank you for your forbearance and thank you for whatever you've put into me that has ultimately got to the point where I'm now able to turn around and look at this and deal with it because I don't want my kids having to deal with it. [00:41:44] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I mean, they will have to, because I didn't start doing it until they were already on the scene. I probably passed negative things to them as well. But you know, as a parent, you know, you're always just trying to filter. You can't block out all the bad stuff. You just try and sieve as much of the crap out as you can, you know, and only pass on the joy. [00:42:02] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I mean, that doesn't work, but that's what you're trying to do. So seven generations back. I'm saying thank you. I would love to ask questions about the language, about the dialect, about words. That's the geeky bit coming through. Seven generations into the future. How do I think i'll stand up as a seventh generation ancestor, as somebody sort of what is great, great, great, great grandfather. [00:42:25] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I simply just hope that i'll be remembered as the generation that turned around started sorting the trauma out. You know, I mean, I'm just a vessel. I have no interest in self-aggrandizement of any kind. I had a minor celebrity when I was working at Outlander. It just didn't suit me at all. I went out of my way to deconstruct that. [00:42:44] Àdhamh Ó Broin: I just sort of took it to bits, and started ignoring all the opportunities to put myself in the limelight, and I just wanted to push the story in the limelight, when I pushed the lower into the limelight, the language, the culture. I wanted to be an advocate for my people, the Gaelic people. We are an ethnic group. [00:42:58] Àdhamh Ó Broin: We've been absolutely marginalized and brutalized and thrown onto the front line of every flaming British conflict over the last 250 years. And I hope seven generations on, that the people are looking back on me as an ancestor will hopefully find something of value that I did to try and struggle against all this and try and turn it around and hopefully I wouldn't have been too esoteric in what I've left behind. They will make some sort of sense of it. [00:43:25] Lesley Anne Rose: Thank you for sharing that. I mean, you shared quite a bit of personal trauma within your family and that's a precious thing to share, so thank you. It strikes me as well, you've mentioned there about that we're the generation that turns things around and of course we've all got a lot of intergenerational trauma. [00:43:40] Lesley Anne Rose: But also the land itself, the earth itself has got a lot of trauma. So I think kind of our healing is inexplicably intertwined with the healing of the planet as well. And certainly, I mean, I won't even start talking about a wellbeing economy or an economy that puts wellbeing at its heart, but it's clear really that wellbeing for us and for the planet has to be at the heart of, you know, all of our decisions moving forward. [00:44:04] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Yes. And it also has to not just become one or more commodity. You know, the language is commodified, wellbeings commodified. I mean, you know, we've got to actually value it for its own sake, you know, as for what it actually is and what it potentially provides. [00:44:18] Lesley Anne Rose: Yeah. No, that's a valuable thing to add. Thank you. Is there anything else that we haven't covered that you would like to share or talk about? [00:44:25] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Just the situation as a tradition bearer with language and culture is absolutely identical to the situation of, you know, an environmental protection worker, a campaigner, whatever. [00:44:39] Àdhamh Ó Broin: You know, anyone listening who doesn't have much of a connection, but is very, very committed to looking after the land, looking after the sea, looking after the air. [00:44:48] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Your work you're doing is actually literally identical. You honestly couldn't squeeze a horse hair in between it, it's absolutely identical. And you think, oh, maybe I'm working with more things that are bit more technical, more scientific or more, you know, maybe more sort of physical, practical, you know, ultimately these are all facets of the one thing. [00:45:07] Àdhamh Ó Broin: There is a living earth, you know, there is a great father creative spirit and there's a receptive mother earth spirit. You know, in whatever faith you have there is probably something similar to that. Everything that exists naturally has come to exist naturally on earth has done so of its own volition. [00:45:27] Àdhamh Ó Broin: The self-perpetuating, beautiful life force of this world fills up spaces without any rationale or preconception of what it does, but itself perpetuates. And humans, indigenous culture and language came to be in just that same manner. So when the people first came upon the earth, that we know regard as Gaelic, came upon it with a different language, the earth was mute. [00:45:58] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Other than the sounds of the wind and the birds, the way the earth felt on the feet, the type of rocks that were there, you know, the kind of rain, be it heavy or misty. And through these experiences that the land there gave to the gail, the gail's language changed to reflect that set of experiences. [00:46:21] Àdhamh Ó Broin: And so the land gifted language to the gail. And so in turn, the gail came to gift language back to the land by describing our experiences and naming the land. And so when you look at the place names, you can see how the land gave language to the gail and how the gail gifted it back to the land. And so the land, environmental protection, we are so dedicated to is a land that has been named and interacted with by indigenous peoples since the beginning of human history. [00:46:54] Àdhamh Ó Broin: By protecting that land and not having it overrun by forestry or affluent running out the rivers or over fishing. Or you know, no apex predators to deal with deer issues, what all these things that people wanna try and fix, they are returning the natural rhythms in the natural state to the land, and they're therefore making it all the more appropriate ones, more to be described by the language that has been birthed by it. [00:47:22] Àdhamh Ó Broin: So it's all part of the one living pastiche and we're all working on our little corner. Because sometimes people go, oh you're not really doing all that much with the environmental stuff. You don't do that much practical. I don't see you in marches, I don't see you hanging off boats. Ah. I'm taking care of my little corner of this struggle that most people don't realize is connected, but I hope I have illustrated how it is. [00:47:45] Lesley Anne Rose: That's a really beautiful last image to take away. You're a natural storyteller. I can hear that. Absolute authentic resonance with people and place in your voice and in the language. It's just beautiful to listen to you. Thank you. I just want to say a huge thank you for your time today. We've touched on so much and I suppose a standout for me about trusting in the wisdom of our bodies and equally trusting in [00:48:08] Lesley Anne Rose: the knowledge of our ancestors and also the knowledge within the earth itself. And it's as simple as just striking up a conversation and listening and speaking, and spending time with each other. But also the importance of tradition bearers in holding, healing, documenting, and then passing on the stories of communities and how that is the glue that holds communities together and builds community cohesion. [00:48:34] Lesley Anne Rose: And that's a massive gift that we can leave for future generations. So yeah. Thank you for taking the time for speaking to us and you certainly are one of our brilliant 1000 better stories. [00:48:46] Àdhamh Ó Broin: Oh yeah, you're most welcome. Ultimately, if in doubt, just get your socks and shoes off. You can't do the hard intensive work if you don't sit quietly and gather the energy and the land will help with that. Gu robh móran math agaibh. It's been a great pleasure. Cheers for now.

Nyunngai Warren Mundine is a former politician and party president of the Australian Labor Party. IN 2013 he was was appointed chairman of the Coalition government's Indigenous Advisory Council by then-prime minister, Tony Abbott. A member of the Bundjalung people, the traditional owners of much of coastal northern New South Wales, Warren was the ninth of eleven children of a family consisting of eight boys and three girls. Through his mother, he is also a descendant of the Gumbaynggirr, Yuin, and Irish peoples.[3] He is the cousin of boxer Tony Mundine and a second cousin of Anthony Mundine, the boxer and footballer. In 1995, Mundine began his foray into politics as an independent candidate for the City of Dubbo council in central-west New South Wales. He was the first Aboriginal person to serve on the body,[6] and later became deputy mayor of Dubbo. Warren has been in the news recently as one of several high profile Australians who are against The Voice, the proposed referendum to give Aboriginal Australians a voice to parliament. In this episode of the podcast we discuss Warren's upbringing, work, political life and why he believes people should no the The Voice referendum which is being held between October and December this year. The Territory Story podcast thanks to Oppidanus Digital Marketing, your local digital marketing agency. For more information about web design, search engine optimisation, social media management, video marketing or to discuss your digital marketing needs go to www.oppidanus.com.au --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/territorystory/message

Hey BlurtstarsEaster has come and gone. We filled our tummies with chocolate and hot cross buns. Now it's time to see what's been happening around the globe.First up the Voice To Parliament this week, and we cover some of that in Indelible Indigenous.Then in Reality Check, we will cover the porky pies that have been going around and set the record straight.And lastly, Wot's On The Box, we will review some of the best shows or movies we've been watching .So, let's get on with the show with Wencee and the Kegsta.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://thenewblurt.substack.com/Subscribe and like our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thenewblurt7773#auspol #Yes123AU #VoiceToParliamentBanterVoice To Parliament latest news →Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser quits Liberal frontbench to support Voice to ParliamentSerious Danger live podcast at Good Chat Comedy Club in Brisbane on 21 May 2023 →Serious Danger w/ Emerald Moon & Tom Ballard - LIVE in Brisbane!USA - Tennessee GOP-controlled state house voted to expel Black lawmakers Justin Jones and Justin Pearson →Harris visits ousted Tennessee lawmakers as Republicans accused of ‘overt racism'The Guardian - Justin Pearson celebrates return to Tennessee legislature after expulsionIndelible IndigenousFirst Australian female indigenous runner to complete the marathon quest of “Six Star Finisher” →SBS News - Allirra is about to become the first Aboriginal woman to run all six major world marathonsGary Foley, activist of the Gumbaynggirr people, academic, writer and actor. One of the original founders of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Australia in 1972 →Victoria University, Melbourne - Professor Gary Edward FoleyWikipedia - Gary Foley50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent EmbassyAM podcast - Can the Voice to Parliament deliver radical change? With Gary Foley (5th Jan 2023)Gary Foley reflects on the 1971 Springbok tour protestsReality CheckUntruths about Alvin Bragg, Manhattan DA, prosecuting Donald Trump →Associated Press - FACT FOCUS: Manhattan DA's record distorted amid Trump caseClaims the NSW State election was rigged by officials changing voters ballots →ABC News/RMIT Fact Check - No, an election official did not tamper with a ballot in Saturday's NSW electionWot's On The BoxUpright on Binge. An Australian drama with some comedy thrown in. Reviewed by Wencee 5/5 BlurtstarsBinge - Upright, seasons 1 and 2Tim Minchin and Milly Alcock Tell You Why You Should Watch Upright | BINGEUpright's Tim Minchin & Milly Alcock Guess Road Trip Songs | BINGEStill We Rise documentary on ABC iView. Commemorating the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Australia →ABC iView - Still we riseFollow us on our socials:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6sah68y5GKhtD-uE4W-FAFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/blurtstar/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/blurtstar/Twitter - @BlurtNew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenewblurt.substack.com

"Me and my dad used to go down the beach before the sun rose. It was still dark. We'd walk down and start a fire." Artist and proud Gumbaynggirr woman Yaara Straede tells a story of two important people in her family. Read by Lucy Heffernan, Actor in Residence Storytelling Workshop Program, in collaboration with Shopfront Arts Coop. Music by Elizabeth Jigalin, Composer in Residence. Recorded at Macksville CWA in a workshop series supported by Shoretrack, Jaanymili Bawrungga, Multicultural NSW and Holiday Break Program Office of Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.

A precious family moment comes with a cup of tea and Ngarlaa, sea turtle in Gumbaynggirr language. Written by Gumbaynggirr Elder Michele Donovan and read by Di Bird. Music by Elizabeth Jigalin, Composer in Residence. Recorded at Macksville CWA in a workshop series supported by Shoretrack, Jaanymili Bawrungga, Multicultural NSW and Holiday Break Program Office of Regional Youth in partnership with Create NSW.

This is the last episode of Out of the Box for the year, so we're looking back on some of the special moments from 2022.  Every conversation we had taught us something new about music, about our guests, about ourselves, and about the art of storytelling. We learned that there are a million ways to share our stories - it happens through the food we make, our creative pursuits, the way we build businesses, and the way we talk to each other.  So for today's episode of Out of the Box, we're revisiting conversations with storytellers that floored us. It was really hard to whittle them down, but you'll hear from a game designer, a rapper, a creative producer, a poet, and an artist.   HOLLY HAWKINS Holly Hawkins is a game designer at Wargaming and a guest speaker at Powerhouse Late: Gaming. They speak on where their love for games comes from, what it means to pursue goals later in life, the complex relationship between gaming, gender, and access, and their recovery from perfectionism.   TASMAN KEITH Tasman Keith is a Gumbaynggirr man and rapper from Bowraville who now calls Sydney home. He sat down with Mia ahead of his FBi SMACS Fest performance to talk through a life that's seen the highest highs and lowest lows, often all at once. He speaks on his enduring optimism, a life spent making music, love, loss, and learning. MAEVE MARSDEN Independent artist and creative producer Maeve Marsden is a master storyteller. She speaks on her life in the arts, the necessary messiness of her 20s, queer stories and the way they're shared, how to fist fruit, and her epic love story. Maeve sat down with Mia ahead of her appearance at All About Women at the Sydney Opera House.  ANDREW HULL Andrew Hull is a writer, artist, poet and musician from Bourke in Far West NSW. He's also Mia's dad. He speaks the turning points in his life, and the different ways he has grown into his identity over time. Andrew's story is deeply rooted in his home on the Darling river, the Barkaa, and has been told through many creative pursuits, you can check them out here.  DYLIN HARDCASTLE Dylin Hardcastle is an author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. Their name lives on the cover of the critically acclaimed ‘Running Like China: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Madness' , and ‘Breathing Under Water', and most recently, ‘Below Deck'. They're also the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of the online series ‘Cloudy River'. Their story also spans the globe: In 2017, Dylin was an artist-in-residence with Chimu Adventures in Antarctica, and they've lived, studied, and created in Australia and the UK too.   Dylin told Mia about a life spent in and on oceans and seas (and the thousand's of lives that have taken place there), rebuilding from trauma, and stories deposited in pockets of glacial ice.  THANK YOU! A huge thanks to the team that made Out of the Box possible this year: producers Claudia Copeland, Ella Stewart, Emma Higgins, Luke Wallis, Mary Ventura, Rebecca Merrick and Tash Noore, and audio editor Sam Dover. They bring this show to life each week, and it wouldn't be possible to make it without them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you talk about country in Australia today, one name comes immediately to mind. Troy Cassar-Daley. The proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man is one of our most celebrated artists; he holds the record for Golden Guitar Awards and has been making music and telling stories for more than 30 years. Many of those stories are of Australian life, from people in towns big and small, and so I asked him to Take 5 “on country”, and share the songs of place that meant something to him. From Gadigal Land to Katherine, to places very close to home, this is beautiful capture of a music loving songman with a lifetime of stories. Midnight Oil Ft. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs & Bunna Lawrie - Gadigal Land Sara Storer - Katherine Archie Roach - Down City Streets Missy Higgins - The Special Two Slim Dusty - Walk A Country Mile

If you talk about country in Australia today, one name comes immediately to mind. Troy Cassar-Daley. The proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung man is one of our most celebrated artists; he holds the record for Golden Guitar Awards and has been making music and telling stories for more than 30 years. Many of those stories are of Australian life, from people in towns big and small, and so I asked him to Take 5 “on country”, and share the songs of place that meant something to him. From Gadigal Land to Katherine, to places very close to home, this is beautiful capture of a music loving songman with a lifetime of stories. Midnight Oil Ft. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs & Bunna Lawrie - Gadigal Land Sara Storer - Katherine Archie Roach - Down City Streets Missy Higgins - The Special Two Slim Dusty - Walk A Country Mile

For a long time, Indigenous stories were mostly reported by non-Indigenous journalists. But that seems to be changing.A growing cohort of Indigenous journalists and the rise of the Indigenous digital content creators are making waves across both mainstream and Indigenous media. Lachlan Skinner, founder of the first Indigenous internet radio station, One Mob Radio on Gumbaynggirr country, and James Saunders, former Chief Operating Officer of IndigenousX.com.au discuss the changing Indigenous media landscape, and the new platforms and initiatives shaking things up.*Please note, at the time of recording James Saunders was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of IndigenousX.com.au but he is now the former COO.Blak Bias is a collaboration between IndigenousX.com.au, the University of Technology Sydney, (UTS), and 2SER Radio. It has been made possible with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI).Co-hosts: Rhianna Patrick and Madeline Hayman-Reber. Produced, edited, and mixed by Marlene Even at 2SER Radio.More information: Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories study: https://bit.ly/3PAXPjWDoes the media fail Aboriginal political aspirations: 45 years of news media reporting key political moments - https://bit.ly/3z4MSAmListen to One Mob: https://onemobradio.com.au/Tile artwork:“Buldyan” (Grandfather), 2018 by Shannon FosterCommissioned for the Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges at UTS.

Aunty Sue Hoskins (nee Ferguson) is a proud Gumbaynggirr Elder living in Coffs Harbour. In this episode of Conversations on Country she tells her story of growing up at Ferguson's Cottage, now recognised as a local landmark.

In many cultures, being bilingual or multilingual is commonplace. In Australia, while some schools are implementing language lessons and bilingual programs, this is not as common in early childhood educational settings. But some childcare centres are bucking the trend and embedding additional languages into their everyday programming.

A series of stories of place, culture and being, shared by Elders of the Gumbaynggirr, Biripi, Dunghutti and Worimi nations from the Mid North Coast of NSW.

Uncle Michael has been instrumental in starting and teaching many Gumbaynggirr language programs in northern New South Wales.

Uncle Michael has been instrumental in starting and teaching many Gumbaynggirr language programs in northern New South Wales.

Tasman Keith is a Gumbaynggirr man and rapper from Bowraville who now calls Sydney home. He sat down with Mia ahead of his FBi SMACS Fest performance to talk through a life that's seen the highest highs and lowest lows, often all at once. He speaks on his enduring optimism, a life spent making music, love, loss, and learning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The earth is a beautiful place, but it's also delicate. With so many people and animals depending on the land for their daily needs from food sources to places of safety from disasters or violence-the ecosystem cannot survive if we don't take care of it!  What is a Solution? Listen to this episode as Ethan discusses Regenerative Agriculture, Diversity, Holistic Management, and More... __________ Who is Ethan Gordon? Ethan Gordon is a Ph.D. Candidate with the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. He uses discourse analysis to explore regenerative agriculture and other ecological alternatives to extractive agricultural models. Through action research alongside the Institute of Ecological Agriculture (IEA), Ethan aims to understand how transformation can be facilitated in agriculture to prevent further ecosystem degradation and social unrest. IEA is a co-operative of farmers, consultants, and educators dedicated to, and advocating for, healthy agricultural landscapes and communities. Together, they are developing an accreditation designed to support the ethical and professional standards of consultants, educators, and trainers in ecological (regenerative) agriculture. This is important work to Ethan because it speaks directly to his family's custodianship of Moffat Falls, a pastoral property located in the lands of the Dunghutti, Gumbaynggirr, and Anaiwan Nations. Moffat Falls is a steer trade operation. Through holistic landscape management, they utilise their grazing animals for carbon sequestration and are early adopters of carbon farming. __________ Website:  https://www.ethangordon.com.au/ __________ Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanforearth/ https://www.instagram.com/ethanforearth/ __________ Recent publication: https://www.ethangordon.com.au/publications _________ UTS Profile: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Ethan.Gordon Dig Deeper Club: https://soillearningcenter.com/digdeeper See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai theatre-maker Andrea James quit her job as a legal secretary to pursue a career in the arts, it was because she saw the theatre as 'a place where truth gets told.' She is now one of our most celebrated playwrights and directors. Also, we hear a scene from A Letter for Molly, the debut play from Brittanie Shipway at the Ensemble and Dr Ana Flavia Zuim, co-author of a study measuring vocal demands in musical theatre, explains why technique may not be enough to protect our vocal health.

When Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai theatre-maker Andrea James quit her job as a legal secretary to pursue a career in the arts, it was because she saw the theatre as 'a place where truth gets told.' She is now one of our most celebrated playwrights and directors. Also, we hear a scene from A Letter for Molly, the debut play from Brittanie Shipway at the Ensemble and Dr Ana Flavia Zuim, co-author of a study measuring vocal demands in musical theatre, explains why technique may not be enough to protect our vocal health.

When Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai theatre-maker Andrea James quit her job as a legal secretary to pursue a career in the arts, it was because she saw the theatre as 'a place where truth gets told.' She is now one of our most celebrated playwrights and directors. Also, we hear a scene from A Letter for Molly, the debut play from Brittanie Shipway at the Ensemble and Dr Ana Flavia Zuim, co-author of a study measuring vocal demands in musical theatre, explains why technique may not be enough to protect our vocal health.

Cianna Walker is a Yuin and Gumbaynggirr musician living in Sydney. She is at the start of her music career as a singer and she studies Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of music. Cianna comes from a long line of Indigenous activists and cultural educators. We talked about her experiences of starting her university endeavour, awkward land acknowledgements, Indigenous languages, and, turns out, Cianna is a lover of movies! Stay tuned until the end to listen to her cover of the song Ngarra Burra Ferra. Please be advised that this podcast contains references to deceased persons. Show script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSgKFwP8M7tSFIDJRNK9tlQABdlyFP8_sgorAKxKtSRUjf98doLwYvzsLXMHeWDdQvpLFuyibLL8e8D/pub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciannawalker/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOluf07qmBDEQq0h3Zwerw Links for more information: – About the movie The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11162490/ – “Bȁpa” by Gurrumul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9N8UXQbO34 – About the movie The Sapphires: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673697/ – The Dhurga Dictionary: https://aiatsis.gov.au/publication/35883 – About The Freedom Rides in Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2015/02/18/explainer-what-was-australias-freedom-ride#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20students%20from,the%20experience%20of%20Aboriginal%20Australians. – About SeedMob: https://www.seedmob.org.au/

What would you do if you didn't know your own language? This week we meet Aunty Deb, a proud Gumbaynggirr woman who shares with Shan how the traumas inflicted on those that went before her impact on her childhood, her parents, and her relationships. Aunty Deb shares how, through her strength and defiance, has built her own connection to country and culture through developing her skills as a linguist. Her passion for helping people connect to their culture, country, and community by learning language is nothing short of beautiful. thetraumatales@gmail.com Facebook:@traumatalespodcast Instagram: @traumatalespodcast Lifeline: 13 11 14 1800 RESPECT: 1800 737 732 Men's Helpline: 1300 789 987 Qlife: 1800 184 527

Today on Gumbaynggirr Country, we're at the beach! We'll learn about totems, looking after the environment and listening to Country.

Today, Cosmos journalist Matilda Handsley-Davis talks to Luke Williams. Luke is a proud descendant of the Gumbaynggirr people of northern NSW. He is currently completing his PhD project at RMIT University, and this project involves assessing the dietary safety of a range of native Australian foods, including traditional Aboriginal foods. He is also exploring how food regulatory frameworks can better accommodate the traditional knowledge held by First Nations people into the overall risk assessment of traditional food products that are being developed for commercial markets.As part of his PhD research, Luke is actively bringing together the research sector and the national food regulatory body, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) with a range of First Nations stakeholders. The ultimate goal of Luke's research is to facilitate First Nations food sovereignty through an Indigenous-led native foods industry.Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website Subscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos WeeklyWatch and listen to all our Cosmos BriefingsSpecial 10% discount on Cosmos magazine print subscriptions (1 or 2 year), or 1 year Cosmos Weekly subscriptions for Cosmos Briefing podcast listeners!  Use coupon code COSMOSPOD in our shop. 

We're back on saltwater Country with Brittanie to hear a story and even learn a song in Gumbaynggirr!

Little Yarns is back and we're headed to Gumbaynggirr Country to meet Brittanie and learn the word you start all your yarns with...

Welcome to Season 2 of Yarning Up! In this episode Caroline sits down with renowned Indigenous soul singer and powerhouse vocalist, Emma Donovan. Emma is best known for her work with soul bands, The Putbacks and The Black Arm Band project. She has also toured and recorded with Archie Roach and Spinifex Gum and opened for likes of Paul Kelly and The Teskey Brothers. On her mother's side, Emma is part of the famed Donovan family of singers of the Gumbaynggirr people, of what is now known as Northern New South Wales. On her Father's side, Emma is of the Yamatji people, of Western Australia.Caroline and Emma yarn about what it was like for Emma to step in the limelight and grow her confidence as an Aboriginal woman and singer. Emma shares stories of her childhood and uncovers the gifts, talents and legacies that she has taken up from her very musically esteemed family in both her personal life and her musical career.  To experience more of Emma follow her on Instagram here, check out her upcoming gigs here and listen to her recent album Crossover, with the critically-acclaimed rhythm combo, The Putbacks here.If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and don't forget to follow the show! Follow Caroline on Instagram @blak_wattle_coaching and learn more about working with Caroline here! We would like to acknowledge Aboriginal people as Australia's First Peoples' who have never ceded their sovereignty. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation where the podcast was taped. We pay our deepest respects to Traditional Owners across Australia and Elders past, present and emerging.This podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio.www.ontrackstudio.com.au@on.track.studioFor advertising opportunities please email hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

Mamamia only refers to January 26 by its date, to acknowledge that it is not a day of celebration for all Australians.  Instead of publishing an episode of The Quicky today, Host Claire Murphy provides some recommendations for some excellent First Nations content and brands (see links below) for you to explore. If you want to be an ally this January 26, we urge you to send your MP a letter about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for constitutional change and structural reform that recognises the sacred, ancient spiritual link Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to their land. You can use this letter template to email your MP. Claire's Recommendations First Nations Fashion: Clothing The Gaps - A fresh and dynamic fashion label managed by health professionals that celebrates Aboriginal people and culture. Clothing The Gaps is a play on the words "Closing the Gap", which is an Australian Government health initiative to help close the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal people and non-Indigenous Australians.  Trading Blak - Sells fashion, wellbeing and food products from businesses that are First Nations owned and led. It is also a safe and transparent space to educate, inform and support not only Indigenous owned and run businesses but also those who wish to support Blak businesses whether that be economically or through engagement.  Kirrikin - Luxury resortwear, featuring the artwork of contemporary indigenous artists from around the country. The stunning artwork is digitally printed onto sustainable fabrics to create unique, luxurious, and ethically made garments. First Nations Fashion + Design - A national voice representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members. Creating ongoing access to opportunities, skill development, and industry engagement. Working towards a self-sustaining ecosystem of Aboriginal fashion designers, textile artists, jewellery designers, photographers, models, hair + make up artist, stylist, curators + Fashion Industry Professionals.  Media: Indigenous X - A 100% Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy and training organisation. They have an excellent Twitter account which is run by a different person each week so you can hear a host of Indigenous voices throughout the year. Indigenous X also features many excellent articles on their website concerning a range of First Nations issues and views. Podcasts: Pretty For An Aboriginal - Nakkiah and Miranda have conversations Australia is uncomfortable having - about sex, relationships, dating, power, and, most difficult of all, race. Coming Out Blak - Hosts Matika Little and Courtney Hagen are dedicated to supporting and celebrating First Nations mob in the LGBTQ+ community. Follow @comingoutblak on instagram to connect. Unapologetically Blak - A project that has been developed by two Australian Indigenous women, Ginny and AJ, to offer an insight into the personal lives and distinctive sisterhood that Blak Australia exists within. ⠀ Books: Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia, by Professor Anita Hess - Anita is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation of central New South Wales, but was born in Gadigal Country and has spent much of her life on Dharawal land near La Perouse. She is one of Australia's most prolific and well-known authors publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction, and children's novels.  Blackfulla Bookclub - An initiative by Teela Reid, a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer and storyteller born and raised in Gilgandra western NSW, and Merinda Dutton, a proud Gumbaynggirr and Barkindji woman and also a lawyer. Together they share book recommendations and stories to heal our nation. CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading or listening to our content, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au  Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heywire winner Aaliyah from Nambucca Valley, NSW, Gumbaynggirr country

This Morning (10th November 2021) on OneMob Breakfast! Clark Webb from Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation called into "Wake Up with Aunty Jenny" and we yarned about the School. For more on this show press PLAY! ----- Weekday Mornings between 7am and 9am you will catch Lockie Skinner LIVE on OneMob Breakfast proudly brought to you by Ready Mob. Lockie is a Proud Gumbaynggirr Man from Coffs Harbour NSW. With a wealth of knowledge in Radio (Former Radio Announcer on 93.7FM Koori Radio), King of Community Engagement and Founder of OneMob Radio, Lockie is a young man that has a long list of achievements at only 25 years old. On this show, Lockie will be broadcasting from locations around Coffs Harbour where you can catch up with him and simply have a yarn. The Show will also include all the info you need to start your day! Community Events, Programs, General Info, Weather, Birthday Book, Surf and More!

Indigenous involvement in the startup space is an emerging force all across Australia, with indigenous people standing up and creating solutions that are solving issues facing their people. Starting a business is not easy; starting an indigenous business adds extra complexity to that process.In this episode of Tech Society, hosts Alex and John from Ninja Software speak with Les Delaforce, a Gumbaynggirr man (Mid North Coast NSW) currently serving as the Indigenous Entrepreneurship Director at the Minderoo Foundation, one of their initiatives being “creating employment parity with and for Indigenous Australians”.Les is also an experienced founder, board director and recipient to many young entrepreneur awards. Les shares his unique experience of navigating through the world of business, and taking advantage of the benefits that technologies can deliver. During this episode, Les speaks about systemic challenges, culture clash, raising equity, exit strategies, and what lies in store for the next generation of business leaders.Les Delaforce: https://au.linkedin.com/in/lesliedelaforceMinderoo Foundation:https://www.minderoo.org/generation-one/#overviewDreamSpark:https://www.dreamspark.com.au/Tech Society 078 - Founding Principles with Patrick Leehttps://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/78-founding-principlesTech Society 052 - Entrepreneurship: Rags to Riches Mythology with David Saxhttps://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/52-entrepreneurship-rags-to-riches-mythology-Website:  https://www.techsociety.fm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techsociety-fm/?viewAsMember=trueSpotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/0STaLU0ATmS9dEyey4FwjviTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tech-society/id1516405840Google:  https://podcasts.google.com/search/tech%20societyTwitter: https://twitter.com/TechSocietyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/techsociety.fm/

This episode is proudly sponsored by Indigenous Business Australia who serves, partners and invests with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who want to own their own future. Episode 69 of the podcast is the 5th instalment of the Indigenous Business Australia series and it's an absolute pleasure to yarn with mother and daughter duo, Lauren Jarrett and Melissa Greenwood. Melissa and Lauren hail from the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, and Bundjalung tribes of Australia's East Coast and are the founders of the Australian art business Miimi & Jiinda. Miimi & Jiinda's aim is to create beautiful, unique artworks that connect with the world. They are passionate about painting pieces that reflect their own personal stories and unique journeys as Indigenous women. Their creations endeavour to uplift and inspire our senses, spark conversations, and bring light to important issues. For both mother and daughter, their art has been a powerful medium for healing intergenerational trauma.As proud Gumbaynggirr custodians, Lauren and Melissa love to share their interpretations of Country, which spring from their own personal cultural identities as Aboriginal women. During our amazing yarn, we find out how the IBA Accelerator program helped take Miimi & Jiinda to the next level and some of their valuable takeaways of completing the program. A great insight to their business and personal lives.Recommendations throughout this episode: https://miimiandjiinda.comhttps://iba.gov.au Website: www.blackmagicwoman.com.auFollow us on Instagram - @blackmagicwomanpodcastThe Black Magic Woman Podcast is hosted by Mundanara Bayles and is an uplifting conversational style program featuring mainly Aboriginal guests and explores issues of importance to Aboriginal people and communities. Mundanara is guided by Aboriginal Terms of Reference and focusses more on who people are rather than on what they do.If you enjoyed this episode, please ‘Subscribe' on Apple Podcasts or ‘Follow' on your Spotify app and tell your friends and family about us! If you'd like to contact us, please email, info@blackmagicwoman.com.auSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/black-magic-woman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matty J chats with ABS Communication Officer Haidee Allan about the census this year and why it's important for everyone, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote communites, to be involved and be heard. This year, the ABS is encouraging people to start their Census as soon as they receive instructions if they know where they'll be on Tuesday 10 August. In remote areas, the Census is conducted between July and August. This allows time for remote teams to cover large areas and visit every household to help people complete. “Our network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff across Australia will be working closely within their own communities. We recognise their understanding of the language is important for helping our mob to be included in the Census,” Haidee said. There are many resources available to help people participate. They are available at www.census.abs.gov.au/indigenous The materials and resources feature the artwork ‘Our Story. Our Future.' which was created by proud Wiradjuri, Wotjobaluk, Yuin and Gumbaynggirr artist Luke Penrith and Badu Island artist from the Torres Strait Naseli Tamwoy. The artwork tells the story of how the ABS works with communities to see, hear and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and experiences in our national story. “Our voices are stronger and louder together. Encouraging our mob to be counted in the Census ensures we're heard. “I encourage everyone to participate in the 2021 Census and help tell our story,” Haidee said. How will people complete their Census? People will be able to complete the Census online, on their mobile device, or on paper. People living in cities and regional areas will either get a letter with instructions on how to complete online, or a paper form. You can start as soon as you get instructions, if you know where you'll be on Census night, Tuesday 10 August. There will be a number of options available for people who need assistance to complete their Census form, including help from Census field staff, and phone and online help. Census staff will be available in remote communities during July and August 2021. Where possible, they'll be people who live in the community. Our staff will do face-to-face interviews with people living there. What is new with the Census? People will be encouraged to complete their Census as soon as they receive their instructions if they know where they'll be on 10 August. They don't have to wait until Census night. The ABS will also introduce new questions in the 2021 Census—the first changes to questions collected since 2006. The new questions are on long-term health conditions, such as arthritis and diabetes, and on defence force participation.

Aboriginal Way is proud to share an episode from the award-winning series Southern Deadly Yarns season 2 by Neporendi Aboriginal Forum Inc. and Onkaparinga Libraries.This episode is about Blackfulla Bookclub, an online celebration of First Nations storytelling that has amassed over 35,000 followers on Instagram. Run by Gumbaynggirr and Barkandji woman Merinda Dutton and Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman Teela Reid, these passionate lawyers and influencers yarn about literature, culture, and more.Follow the creators of Southern Deadly Yarns on social media:www.facebook.com/cityofonkaparingawww.facebook.com/Neporendi/

Today, and all days, we remember and honour our friend, guide and mentor Uncle Marky Flanders. Uncle, we thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and stories of Country and the Creation Ancestors. We respect your teaching that all of us are responsible for looking after Country. You changed our understanding of what it means to live on this powerful and beautiful Gumbaynggirr Country. We know you will continue to watch over us from the Sky Country. Travel safely in the Dreaming Uncle Marky, with all our love.

Blackfulla Bookclub is the online celebration of First Nations storytelling that has amassed over 35 000 followers on Instagram. Run by Gumbaynggirr and Barkandji woman Merinda Dutton and Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman Teela Reid, these passionate lawyers and influencers are joining us to yarn about literature, culture, and more!

Round 5 of the 2021 Super Netball season has been the best yet, with extremely tight matches and a great start to the first half of Indigenous Round.This episode features analysis from former Australian Diamond and proud Dunghutti and Gumbaynggirr woman, Sharon Finnan-White.As well as an interview with Indigenous shooter and Kaniyan-Noongar woman Donnell Wallam, who is on the rise in the UK's Super League.One of the longest podcasts we've done, but we promise it's worth the commitment!

In this week’s episode, I chat to Marley Morgan an Indigenous woman who is raising her three children on Gumbaynggirr land. After a surprise pregnancy at the age of 26, Marley was confronted by a variety of health concerns that took a toll on her mental health and led to an ante-natal depression diagnosis. Her journey into motherhood was challenging but when she reached out to her local mother’s group she recognised the importance of a supportive village. She’s birthed three boys in four years and has consciously worked on her mental and physical health, has grown a successful business that celebrates women and motherhood and has experienced the joy of intervention-free birth with the support of midwives. 

On Thursday 1st April, We was invited and VIP at the recent First Nations Concert at Bowraville Theatre. In Lockie's absence, Our Jess and Dave represented ONEMOB Radio! Some deadly yarns! Such a Deadly Night! Thanks for the invite! We loved it

On OneMob Breakfast this morning (Thursday 4th March) Lockie is yarning with Terri Bird. Terri is a proud Gumbaynggirr woman from Nambucca. Currently the Aboriginal Services and Supports Program Manager at CASPA Services Ltd. Terri has been recognised by OneMob Radio's International Women's Day Gathering Planning Committee as someone that goes above and beyond for community. Hope you enjoy her yarn with Lockie.

On OneMob Breakfast this morning (Wednesday 3rd March) Lockie is yarning with Tracy Singleton. Tracy a proud Gumbaynggirr woman from Nambucca/Bowraville Currently the Chief Executive Officer of Galambila Aboriginal Health Service. Tracy has been recognised by OneMob Radio's International Women's Day Gathering Planning Committee as someone that goes above and beyond for community. Hope you enjoy her yarn with Lockie.

On OneMob Breakfast this morning (Tuesday 2nd March) Lockie is yarning with Kaleesha Morris. Kaleesha is a proud Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti & Kulkalgal woman from Bangiigan (South Grafton) & Cangai Kaleesha is an employee of Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation, Dancer for Wajaarr Ngaarlu, Activist, Language Teacher and Student of Culture. Kaleesha has been recognised by OneMob Radio's International Women's Day Gathering Planning Committee as someone that goes above and beyond for community and culture. Hope you enjoy her yarn with Lockie.

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss our two discussion books You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson and Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. And our special guests Evelyn Bradley and Mérinda Dutton share books around the theme Black Joy. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to Acorn.tv and use the code ReadingWomen to get your first thirty days free! Go to Literati.com/ReadingWomen to get 25% off of your first two orders! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Books Mentioned You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert Evelyn Recommends There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker Mérinda Recommends Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices. Homeland Calling edited by Ellen van Neerven About Our Guests Evelyn Bradley lives in PEI, Canada with her wife, Vanessa. She is a diversity and inclusion consultant through her firm 'Bradley Consulting'. When not consulting, she spends a good amount of time plotting around her Queer cottagecore lifestyle; thinking up what bow tie to craft next; and cooking up well-plated meals with Vanessa. She is a spoken word poet and avid book lover. Follow her and her wife @gayfromAway on Instagram. MERINDA DUTTON is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Barkindji woman from the rural community of Grafton, NSW. Merinda developed a strong passion for law and social justice during her early teenage years. During her first year at UNSW, studying for a Bachelor of Jurisprudence/Bachelor of Laws double degree, Merinda was awarded the Landon-Smith Family Scholarship. The following year, she became a recipient of the Paul Doneley Memorial Scholarship, set up to support First Nations Australians undertaking law studies at the University. She undertook student internships at Allens, the Office of the Registrar of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and the Native Title Service Provider for Aboriginal Traditional Owners (NTSCORP) to supplement her scholarship income. Merinda graduated in 2013 and is an Acting Senior Solicitor at the Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities at Legal Aid NSW. Based in Lismore, she joined the organisation in 2014 and delivers advice and casework assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and regional communities throughout NSW, as well as to First Nations women in custody. Merinda was named the Attorney-General Department’s 2019 National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year at the National Indigenous Legal Conference in Darwin. She co-founded Blackfulla Book Club with Teela Reid in April 2020. Twitter | Instagram | Blackfulla Book Club CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We catch up with Gumbaynggirr rapper and storyteller Tasman Keith about his latest track 'No Country,' how he feels about the industry right now and the complexities of NAIDOC Week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brittanie Shipway shares some of her favourite words including the Gumbaynggirr name for the Milky Way.

Brittanie Shipway shares some of her favourite words including the Gumbaynggirr name for the Milky Way.

We go on a journey — from a former Aboriginal mission station on the banks of the Murray River to the Forest of Martyrs outside Jerusalem — to learn the story of William Cooper and his 1938 protest against the persecution of the Jews.

Brittanie Shipway shares some of her favourite words including the Gumbaynggirr name for the Milky Way.

We go on a journey — from a former Aboriginal mission station on the banks of the Murray River to the Forest of Martyrs outside Jerusalem — to learn the story of William Cooper and his 1938 protest against the persecution of the Jews.

In this episode Charlie talks to actress & director Rachel Ward. A little under thirty-three years ago Rachel and her husband Bryan Brown bought a small farm in the Nambucca Valley on the NSW coast. Until recently they had been managing the farm conventionally but the 2019 devastating bush fires launched her onto a very different trajectory… In this frank interview Rachel talks about how the bushfires were a catalyst for change and how since then she has jumped boots and all onto the regenerative agricultural train, implementing significant changes to her farming practices & lifestyle on the way. She is currently compiling a documentary focusing on the regenerative agricultural movement. To start a dialogue and converse more about topics raised in this podcast, please visit The Regenerative Journey Podcast Facebook Group.   Episode Takeaways   I fell in love with the Nambucca valley, NSW, 30 years ago | I grew up on a farm in the Cotswolds in UK | Our farm was managed conventionally and recently we have moved to a more Regenerative approach . It’s not important to me that our children or grandchildren take over and live on the farm, more that they have had exposure to it and can make informed decisions about it in the future. |  I am much more excited about farming now that we are managing it regeneratively. | It’s given her a whole new perspective, a holistic perspective on managing her farm, and the more she gets involved, the more rewards there are. | Farmers have a responsibility beyond their own property boundary, especially in regard to the use of chemicals, as it tends to move out of the landscape via water and air to other farms and ecosystems | NMS is a method of propagating native fungi to use to aim the breakdown of wood and lignified grass. | The Call of the Reed Warbler by Charlie Massy changed her life…….it was full of opportunity and hope, and she was completely electrified by it...just seems like a no brainer…| It doesn’t cost a cent to change a paradigm| Matching personal and business values with landscape needs can be challenging | To sell or not to sell my cows, that is the question, as ones emotional attachment to livestock can sometimes stand in the way of the best decisions for the landscape | Rachel is a big fan and appreciates the value of mentors |  Rachel’s neighbours have joined forces and put their cattle together to move them around the combined properties to improve grazing management and soil health | Rachels property is in Gumbaynggirr  country | Regenerative farmers are enthusiastic and ‘alive’ and ignited to the world and their properties | Farmers have a very serious role to play in the saving of the planet | Rachel supports 'eaters' to source and purchase regeneratively grown food, and in doing so contribute to the growth of these practices | The fires of 2019 were a major 'tension event' that was a catalyst for my regenerative journey | Rachel is a member of the Land to Market co-op which verifies  the improvement of  landscape through management by annually measuring biological activity and soil composition. Episode Links  Rachel Ward Rachel Ward a- IG   Allan Savory Ted talk was totally inspiring to Rachel  Allan Savory Institute  Kym Kruse Regen Ag  consultant Call of the Reed Warbler - Charles Massy KLR Marketing  Land to Market

This week on Overnights we continue our conversation with Gumbaynggirr Nation leaders. Tina Powell joins us to talk about about the history the area we know as Coffs Harbour and tells us more about the different dialects, the traditions and the future, the start up of the Gumbaynggirr Cultural Centre.

This week on Overnights we continue our conversation with Gumbaynggirr Nation leaders. Tina Powell joins us to talk about about the history the area we know as Coffs Harbour and tells us more about the different dialects, the traditions and the future, the start up of the Gumbaynggirr Cultural Centre.

Al Oshlack has been a legal advocate for the Indigenous people and environment of NE NSW for decades. Lately he has been working with the Gumbaynggirr people to challenge the threat of logging of their country. Their legal action sought to challenge the anti democratic nature of NSW Forest Corps status being above the law. He explains to us the effects of this action MUSIC: Southern Forest Stand-Al Japaljarri and the Komradz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/environmental-as-anything/message

In this week’s episode I chat to Jame, a mother of three and the owner of @earth.blended. Jame lives on Gumbaynggirr country, is a proud Gumbaynggirr Nyami (woman) and she talks from the heart about her three births, including the trauma of emergency cesarean and the anxiety and grief of having a sick child with a life-threatening condition. While she had always longed for a natural birth, it wasn’t until she fell pregnant with her third son that she listened to her intuition and consciously prepared for a VBAC2, an experience that filled her with immense pride and left her in complete awe. Jame’s story goes full circle, from the shock of hearing she needed an emergency cesarean with her first to the redemptive and healing experience of birthing and delivering her third and then having the opportunity to bask in an uninterrupted golden hour with her newborn.

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.The show notes were written on Dharawal land, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by the First Nations people of this land.G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the eighth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.Today, our plus guest is Lindsay Williams, a Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri man from Nambucca Heads.This was an episode where we decided against setting an agenda ahead of time, because the fact is, as three white guys we can't speak for First Nations people, but we desperately need to learn more as the ignorance of Indigenous culture in this country is crippling. And the fact that we have to lead with that is devastating, because we shouldn't have to set aside special episodes for Indigenous guests, because all issues in this country affect the Indigenous community.Dark Emu - Culture and HistoryCurtain The PodcastFull shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

Join our travel podcast through in Barangaroo gardens. View the images for this podcast. https://eattmag.com/how-to-get-to-barangaroo-gardens-in-sydney/ To the suburb of Barangaroo 11 min round trip, 5 minutes by train and 7 mins walking To the Barangaroo reserve from the suburb of Barangaroo is an easily accessible 12 to 14 min walk DETAILS BY TRIAN: From Sydney central station to the suburb of Barangaroo From Central station the suburb of Barangaroo Take the T1, T3 or T8 train lines to Wynyard station which takes about 5 mins by train. At Wynyard station Take exit 4, Clarence St and then walk the 500 to 600 meters via Exit 4, Clarence St Walk north on Clarence St towards York Ln Turn left onto Margaret St Continue onto Napoleon St Turn right onto Hickson Rd then continue onto the Barangaroo reserve along Hickson Rd and turn left into Nawi cove Find more details the transport trip planner https://transportnsw.info/trip#/ BY FERRY From Circular Quay, Wharf No. 5 to Pyrmont Bay via Barangaroo Take the Barangaroo & Darling Harbour Ferry via Milsons Point Mcmahons Point Balmain East Barangaroo Visit beyond the wharf for you Barangaroo Ferry details http://www.beyondthewharf.com.au/route/barangaroo/ Join us on our podcast tour of Barangaroo gardens in Sydney with Tim Gray our Tour Guide. Tim is our knowledgeable guide with Infrastructure NSW guiding us on our way across the ancient sandstone structures that form the Barangaroo garden Reserve. Colorful stories abound and come to life in the seaside gardens here at Barangaroo reserve located on the north-western edge of the Sydney CBD. TAKE A BREAK TO BARANGAROO SYDNEY: Barangaroo is the land of the Gadigal people who were the traditional owners of the area who used it for fishing and hunting. In the podcast today, we have Tim Gray. Tim is our knowledgeable guide with the Barangaroo Delivery AuthorityInfrastructure NSW. Tim acknowledges the Gadigal people and their land. Tim's tribes are Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri and Bidgigal. Along with Cullen Pope, our podcast host and the editor of the EATT Magazine travel podcast. As Tim says, Barangaroo is right next to Sydney's CBD', however, it provides a considerable contrast to the bustling city center. Which can be found at Barangaroo is a beautiful, peaceful park with wildlife, an abundance of sandstone and 75,000 native plants, trees and shrubs. So if you are looking for a great place to relax, take an Aboriginal cultural tour or enjoy Sydney's exceptionally curated food precinct. Furthermore, you can enjoy a spot of shopping, or wander through the Reserve and soak up the beautiful Sydney Harbour. THE HISTORY OF BARANGAROO: The Reserve of Barangaroo dates back to the early 1800s, not long after the settlers had first arrived to discover the sandstone headland. A quarry was established at the headland to mine the sandstone resources. Buildings were constructed with the characterful sandstone which is now identified as unique to the historic ‘Rocks' precinct at circular quay. In those early years, Barangaroo was a place where ships would dock and, thus, created the central hub for commercial activity. From 1880 to 1900 specialization of the area occurred. Shipyards closed down, and in their place, more substantial storage facilities were built. Larger wharves were created to accommodate modernized container ships that had larger cargo loads.     Barangaroo remained commercial until 2003 “where the government decided that they wanted to do something with the land, give it back to the people because it was no longer a shipping container.” This is where the redevelopment of Barangaroo Sydney started. By referring to watercolor paintings of the area, discovered from the 1800s, reshaping of the headlands to its original form began. In addition, the Hedland was raised to its original height in a mission to recreate the historical aspect of the headland. PLACES TO SEE AT BARANGAROO: Stargazer's Lawn: Tim describes this lawn as ‘a great fate of engineering where, instead of landfill, they've actually created a road bridge technology.' The ‘Cutaway.' The cutaway is used as a performance and art space where diverse events are run every month or so for the public. The cutaway hosts a variety of exhibitions from the Sydney Festival to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal art exhibitions. Open 24 hours a day, and the Stargazer Lawn is thus named as it is where visitors can sit in the grass at night and watch the stars. At all times, it can be a great place to relax and enjoy the atmosphere. You can also see the Sydney observatory tower not far from there. It is also, interestingly, named after the local stargazer fish. Tim describes the fish as having ‘eyes at the top of its head, and it lies at the bottom of the harbor, and it's the same color as the sand. So it camouflages itself from its unsuspecting victims.' You can even buy it at the fish market. WHAT TO DO AT BARANGAROO? If you are a student, taking a study break to Barangaroo Sydney will be a fantastic experience, especially if you are an international student. Barangaroo is a great place to learn more about Aboriginal culture and take a Barangaroo Aboriginal Culture tour. The tour explores the site's rich Aboriginal history and cultural significance. The tours provide an in-depth explanation of the Aboriginal history of Sydney Harbour and its surrounds. This site has significance to Aboriginal Australians. The guides also share the stories of Australia's First Nations People and, in particular, the clans of the Eora Nation. You can also partake in other fun government-run activities, such as a donut baking experience where participants are provided with a unique hands-on experience that will have you rolling, proofing, frying, and glazing some delicious donut creations. Stay tuned to the podcast for part two of our tour at the gardens of Barangaroo out soon. Getting to Barangaroo is quite accessible from the major Sydney universities and local Sydney suburbs. You can easily take public transport or drive with access to public parking. Discover more about Barangaroo https://www.barangaroo.com/ ANNUAL AND UPCOMING EVENTS The Big Design Market – 20-22 September 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and- do/whats-on/the-big-design-market/ The Other Art Fair – 24-27 October 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and-do/whats- on/the-other-art-fair/ The Finders Keepers Market – 6-8 December 2019 https://www.barangaroo.com/see-and- do/whats-on/the-finders-keepers-market/ How to view the images for this podcast https://eattmag.com/podcasts/how-to-get-to-barangaroo-gardens-in-sydney/

Deadly Discussions is excited to have Liam Ridgeway on the show, Liam is a tech entrepreneur, he was the first ever indigenous employee at Microsoft. A proud descendant of the Gumbaynggirr people of Nambucca Heads in Northern New South Wales and the Wakka Wakka people of Southern Queensland, Liam will be sharing his journey and what lies ahead for himself and his company. We are discussing indigenous people in tech, tokenism across all sectors and his charity Indigitek that helps bring indigenous boys and girls into the STEM industries.  

Barunga is a celebration of arts, footy and culture — and the site of a promise, 31 years ago, of treaty between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. That treaty still does not exist. We talk to local who were there in 1988 about how they see the future, and a young Gumbaynggirr hip hop artist about what treaty means to his generation.

For deadly hip hop artist and Gumbaynggirr man Tasman Keith, it’s been a great year for his music but a hard year for him and his family. He tells us how he finds strength in tough times + staying true to his roots and culture when his life is split between the city and the country.

As part of Indigenous Business Month in October, the UTS Business School and Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, hosted a panel event called UTS Women Mean Business. The panel featured three Indigenous business women who discussed and reflected on their experiences working in and founding their own commercial organisations. On this episode, we drop in on the panel discussion to hear about Indigenous women’s experiences in the business world. Plus, David and Nicole are joined in the studio by Robynne Quiggin, a Professor of Practice in Indigenous Business and Director of Indigenous Strategy at UTS Business SchoolFurther Reading:You can find more information on Robynne’s work at the UTS Business School here. Dean Jarrett is a proud Gumbaynggirr man and Lecturer in the Management Discipline at the UTS Business school. You can find more information on Dean here.

Warlpiri woman VM and Bunjalung, Gumbaynggirr and Dunghutti woman Lizzie Jarrett speak about increasing removal of children from their families.