Podcasts about kokatha

May 28th marks 25 years since the Walk for Reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the year 2000. Frances Rings, proud Kokatha woman and Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, was reporting live for SBS on the day and shares her personal reflections with NITV Radio.

Headlines: - Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, US immigration judge rules- Israel bombs al-Ahli hospital- Israel confirms trials of Australian-made weaponry Segments:Interview with Barry Berih, lead plaintiff for the class action against Homes Victoria fighting against the high-rise public housing towers demolishment An excerpt of Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Manju's conversation with Aunty Sue Haseldine, providing updates on the fight to protect sacred Kokatha Country from missile testing from the Bunjil's Fire show. Bunjil's Fire airs on Wednesdays from 11AM to 1PM, you can catch previous iterations of the show at www.3cr.org.au/firefirst . Help support the protection of West Mallee with this Chuffed fund here https://chuffed.org/project/106310-protect-googatha-mula-country Jan Bartlett speaking with Amin Abbas, a Palestinian Australian and a co-founder of Olive Kids, an organisation dedicated to improving the lives of Palestinian children. Amin provides updates on Olive Kids' work to support children in Palestine as Israel continues its genocidal assault on Palestine. The pair also speak of how Israel's hypocrisy in providing aid to Thailand and Myanmar in the wake of an earthquake as the Zionist entity continues to bomb Gaza. You can listen to Tuesday Hometime on Tuesday evenings fron 4 till 6pm or listen back at https://www.3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday. You can donate to Olive Kids at olivekids.org.au/donate/ Robbie Bunjileenee Thorpe's speech, introduced by Nasser Mashni from the Free Palestine rally on the 13th of April 2025  Rathi Barthlote's speech from the Free Palestine rally on the 13th of April 2025  Interview Marissa from the show doin' time about yesterdays Free Palestine rally, to catch more of Marissa's show go to https://www.3cr.org.au/dointime or listen live on Mondays, 4-5pm. Music: All music from today's show was from Sovereign Sounds, the event at Camp Sovereignty on the 13th of April 2025 Anti-National by Sekutu Robbie Thorpe with Public Opinion Afro Orchestra 

Hello welcome to the Monday Breakfast show, on todays podcast we heard: Grace Coff, a Yorta Yorta woman from the organisation Nalderun, speaking about the importance of first nations led organisations for young people in the community and bush tucker farms on Djarra Country, in Castlemaine. Go to www.murnongmummas.com.au to purchase local bush tucker and to support her organisation go to https://nalderun.net.au/donate/  Over the weekend there was a Nukes-Free Gathering at Catalyst Social Centre, against rocket testing on sacred sites on Kokatha country, we heard an excerpt from a wider conversation, in which Aunty Sue begins with her experience with 'Southern Launch' (a South African rocket company) threatening her country in South Australia. She also discusses issues surrounding the Voice to Parliament, protecting sacred sites, and the future of the fight. To find out more about the cause go to www.nativetitlerockets.com "From the Geelong Invasion Day rally, organised by a newly formed local group: Be Tru 2 Uluru, well-attended with approx 700 people in attendance, including the Southern Warriors Aboriginal motorcycle club and solidarity organisations, with speeches and discussions including combating issues arising with the newly elected consrvative council majority in the region. After the speeches, 3CR Programmer Amy Ciara spoke with Jason Kelly, Wamba Wamba / Mutthi Mutthi man, and member of the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria, about his work with Yoorrook, moving toward truth-telling, justice, and healing, and youth justice system and closing the gap between govt policy and practice" to support and find out more go to https://www.firstpeoplesvic.org/ Last week supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths joined forces to back the Australian Retailers Assocation's application to the Fairwork Commission to alter the General Retail Industry Award. Their proposed changes include the casualisation of salaried managers, cutting their overtime, evening and weekend pentalty rates, as well as their annueal leave loading in exchange for a 25% pay rise to $67,000; Rest times between shifts would be reduced to 10 hours from 12; employees could also waive their meal breaks during their six-hour shifts. To hear more about the proposal and how it would affect employees' working conditions, the secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, Josh Cullinan spoke about this cause. This Thursday the 6th of February 3CR is launching the Queer Histories/ Queer Futures podcast. Created in collaboration with Arts Merri-bek, the project documents the collective history of LGBTQIA+ organising, activism and community in Merri-bek. It features a podcast produced by 3CR Community Radio alongside a walking tour, which has also been recorded. To tell us more about the podcast and the project, Rob spoke with former 3CR breakfast presenter and current host of the In Ya Face show, James McKenzie. The podcast can be found on the 3CR website at 3CR.org.au, more information about the launch event can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/queer-historiesqueer-futures-launch-tickets-1139460389699. Catch James on the In Ya Face show, exploring LGBTQIA+ issues, music and commentary on Fridays from 4 - 5pm. 

Bu hafta NAIDOC Haftası; Avustralya'nın ilk halklarının tarihini, kültürünü ve başarılarını kutlama zamanı. Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo ve diğer kıyı kavimlerden sanatçılar, Güney Avustralya'daki Eyre Yarımadası'nın batısında, sahildeki Murat Körfezi kıyısındaki Ceduna'da eserlerini sergiliyor ve sanat ve kültürlerini çevre hakkında konuşmak için kullanıyor.

Nay đang là Tuần lễ NAIDOC, vốn là thời điểm để tôn vinh lịch sử, văn hóa và thành tựu của người dân các Quốc gia Đầu tiên. Các nghệ sĩ từ Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo và các quốc gia ven biển khác, đang trưng bày các tác phẩm của họ và sử dụng nghệ thuật cũng như văn hóa của họ, để lên tiếng về môi trường tại Ceduna trên bờ Vịnh Murat trên bờ biển, phía tây Bán đảo Eyre ở Nam Úc.

Es la Semana NAIDOC, un momento para celebrar la historia, la cultura y los logros de los pueblos de las Primeras Naciones. Artistas de Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo y otras naciones costeras están exhibiendo sus obras y utilizando su arte y cultura para hablar sobre el medio ambiente.

Celebrujemy Tydzień NAIDOC – w Australii to czas świętowania historii, kultury i osiągnięć Pierwszych Narodów. Artyści z Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo i innych krajów nadbrzeżnych wystawiają swoje prace i wykorzystują lokalne osiągnięcia, aby jak najwiecej mówić o środowisku w Cedunie na wybrzeżu Zatoki Murat , na zachód od półwyspu Eyre w Australii Południowej.

It's NAIDOC Week – a time to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. Artists from Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo and other coastal nations are exhibiting their works and using their art and culture to speak up about the environment at Ceduna on the shores of Murat Bay on the coast, west of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. - Ngayon ay NAIDOC Week – pagkakataon ito upang ipagdiwang ang kasaysayan, kultura at mga tagumpay ng mga First Nations people. Ang mga artista mula sa Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo at iba pang mga coastal nation ay nagsasagawa ng eksibit, ipinapakita ang kanilang mga gawa at ginagamit ang kanilang sining at kultura upang magsalita tungkol sa kapaligiran sa Ceduna sa baybayin ng Murat Bay, kanluran ng Eyre Peninsula sa South Australia.

It's NAIDOC Week – a time to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. Artists from Kokatha, Mirning, Wirangoo and other coastal nations are exhibiting their works and using their art and culture to speak up about the environment at Ceduna on the shores of Murat Bay on the coast, west of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

This week, Peter Dutton received a radioactive reception after announcing a bold plan to implement nuclear energy, should the Liberals win the next federal election.It marks a new chapter in Australia's ongoing climate wars, and while there's little details about costs or timelines, the prospect of nuclear power has been met with fierce opposition from energy leaders, environmentalists, and state governments.Jacob speaks with nuclear-free campaigner Dr Jim Green; Kokatha elder and co-President of the Australia Nuclear Free Alliance Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine; Sanne de Swart, Stell Bruyn, Michaela Stubbs, and Tom Freire from the Friends of the Earth Nuclear-Free Collective; and Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies Darrin Durant.

Cultural Initiatives, Storytelling, and Connection. Join us as we take the hangar to the National Convention Centre Canberra for the Air and Space Power Conference 2024 and chat to Indigenous Liaison Officer Flight Lieutenant Steven Warrior, proud Kuarna, Narungga, and Kokatha man. This episode is hosted by Group Captain Glenn Orton. Please note: This episode of Hangar 46 was recorded at the National Convention Centre Canberra during ASPCon24, there may be background noises or a difference in audio quality.

This week we speak with Old Country Calling organiser Manju about the upcoming 'Big Boss Fire Tour - Tribute to Uncle Kev' that will take place on Arabunna country from 22 June - 5 July before travelling to Kokatha country for 7-21 July.  We bring you a recording from the late great warrior for peace and justice Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin that was recorded by Julian at Alberrie Creek late last year.  To find more beautiful recordings from Uncle Kevin's final months on his country visit Decolonize Mob on Facebook.

This week we hear about two campaigns at the forefront of opposition to the military expansion on this continent.  ‘Native Title Rockets' Campaign Coordinator and documentary Director Rocky speaks with Priya Kunjan (Thursday Breakfast) about Southern Launch's Koonibba rocket testing range that has begun commercial operation with its first rocket launch this week on Kokatha lands near Ceduna, South Australia.  Kokatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine brings us a call out for supporters to protect country from damage by the rocket testing operations.  Then we hear an interview from Phuong Tran (Tuesday Breakfast) with Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French political creative Laniyuk about the sacred lands of the Larrakia people, which are currently under threat of being destroyed by Defence Housing Australia. Binybara 'Lee Point' near Darwin is an area of deep cultural significance to the Larrakia Peoples and is also an internationally-significant site for migratory shorebirds and home to the rare and endangered Gouldian Finch. Larrakia people are being supported by community groups to have Lee Point protected and returned to traditional custodianship, after the Federal government gave Defence Housing Australia permission to develop the site 800 homes in 2018.  Last week Environmental Justice Australia made an application to the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA) to recognise sacred sites in the Lee Point development zone, including the Danggalaba Dreaming track, a sacred waterway and traditional camping places and ceremonial grounds on behalf of Larrakia Danggalaba Traditional Owner Tibby Quall.Support the campaign by signing the petition to Return Lee Point to the Care of Larrakia People.   

"Nobody has looked at whether [fenced reserves] could potentially be a conservation measure for bats." Bats are the second most-diverse order of mammals, in Australia and around the world, and provide vital ecosystem services like pest control and pollination. However, more than 30 percent of bat species are threatened, largely due to habitat alteration and introduced predators. In this episode, UNSW Sydney PhD student Oli Aylen joins us to discuss this fascinating group of animals and to outline his research on the role of fenced conservation reserves on bat communities in arid zones. The Ecological Society of Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Oli works on the lands of the Wangkumara and Kokatha people. Help the ESA support ecology in Australia by donating (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.ecolsoc.org.au/get-involved/donate/donation-form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) or by becoming a member (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.ecolsoc.org.au/get-involved/become-a-member⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). The music in this podcast is ‘Glow' by Scott Buckley - www.scottbuckley.com.au. Episode image credit: Oli Aylen.

Damien Smith chats all things Munda Wines with Richo & Jill..... This brand originates from Paul Vandenburgh (part of the  Wirangu and Kokatha peoples) of the far west coast of South Australia. Munda Wines is all about conversation, making change and creating opportunities for Aboriginal young people. We at the Wine Show Australia recognise the need for these conversations and acknowledge the the great work that is being done by Damien & Pauly in this space... Oh - and by the way.... The wines are dead-set crackerjack..... Get on board peeps.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Scott McCartney, a Wotjobaluk man and chief executive of the Kinaway Chamber of Commerce Victoria, and Matthew Karakoulakis, a Kokatha and Narungga man and principal solicitor of AMK Law, to discuss the issue of black cladding. Black cladding refers to businesses that falsely represent themselves as Indigenous-owned when they are not. Mr McCartney and Mr Karakoulakis discuss the negative consequences of black cladding and its impact on the Indigenous business community and the broader community. They highlight the need for proper certification and education to address the issue, as well as the role of lawyers in advocating for regulatory and legislative changes to prevent black cladding. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@lawyersweekly.com.au for more insights!  

Headlines- Public drunkenness to be decriminalised by November 2023 - Invasion Day Dawn Service 2023 - Queensland First Nations justice officer's new role - Three people face Perth court charged with the murder of Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey - The Right To Know scheme in NSW - Public health bodies to take over care in Victorian women's prisons - VALS Invasion Day webinar on Zoom today - register here - "Australia Day" parade cancelled - Invasion Day rallies in Naarm and across the country 7:15: Marisa from Doin Time and Nerita Waight (VALS) discuss the harm caused by 'tough on crime' politics, the alternative plan for Aboriginal Justice in Victoria, how the government is dragging its feet on prison reform and what prison abolition would look like.   7:30: Raelene Cooper speaks to Eiddwen on Earth Matters about the destruction of the Woodside Scarborough Gas plant and the proposed Urea fertilizer plant are having on the Murujuga in Western Australia, solutions for the region and the need for proper consent and consultation with First Nations people in any development across Australia. Follow the Save our Songlines campaign here.  8:00: Kokatha woman, nuclear test survivor and outspoken advocate Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine on Disrupt Land Forces and the importance of anti-weapons activism. This interview first aired on Tuesday Breakfast on 14 October 2022.  Songs- The Children Came Back - Briggs ft. Gurrumul & Dewayne Everettsmith - Better in Blak - Thelma Plum- Ngarrindjeri Woman - Ruby Hunter- Damaged - Miiesha   

The incredible Frances Rings, Bangarra's Associate Artistic Director, joins us on this episode of Talking Pointes. A descendant of the Kokatha people, Frances was born in Adelaide and spent her childhood traveling, dancing, and living all around Australia while her father worked on the railways. However, it was a teacher at her boarding school in Queensland that spotted her talent, and encouraged her to audition for NAISDA, the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association.And so at 18 years of age, Frances boarded a Greyhound bus and traveled the 12 hours to Sydney. In this beautifully raw and personal interview, Frances talks about her journey into dance, her incredible career with Bangarra, and finding confidence in her own body. But Frances talks about more than that. Her onstage connection with the late Russell Page, becoming a mum, and the pressure but also the importance of not only being a female leader, but a First Nations female leader in dance in Australia.Listen here or find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify.For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, this episode of Talking Pointes contains the names of people who have passed. Please pause now, if you'd prefer not to hear their names. The Page family have given Bangarra Dance Theatre permission to use their names for the purpose of this interview. And just a trigger warning for this episode, we discuss issues around suicide, so if you'd prefer not to listen or read, please press pause or stop reading now. Your host and producer is Claudia Lawson, additional production by Penelope Ford, with editing and sound production by Martin Peralta. And for the latest in all things dance, head to fjordreview.com.

Nach Mitternacht klettert der (Schürzen-)Jäger Nyeeruna über den Osthorizont und stellt den Yugarilya-Schwestern nach. So überliefert es das Volk der Kokatha im Süden Australiens – für uns handelt es sich um Orion und die Plejaden.Von Dirk Lorenzenwww.deutschlandfunk.de, SternzeitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Lake Hart in South Australia is a culturally-significant site for the Kokatha people of South Australia. It's also been used for decades to launch rockets and test missiles. - Lake Hart nel South Australia è un sito culturalmente significativo per le popolazioni Kokatha del South Australia. È anche stato utilizzato per decenni per lanciare razzi e collaudare missili.

Lake Hart in South Australia is a culturally-significant site for the Kokatha people of South Australia. It's also been used for decades to launch rockets and test missiles. - Lake Hart nel South Australia è un sito culturalmente significativo per le popolazioni Kokatha del South Australia. È anche stato utilizzato per decenni per lanciare razzi e collaudare missili.

Lake Hart in South Australia is a culturally-significant site for the Kokatha people of South Australia. It's also been used for decades to launch rockets and test missiles. - Lake Hart nel South Australia è un sito culturalmente significativo per le popolazioni Kokatha del South Australia. È anche stato utilizzato per decenni per lanciare razzi e collaudare missili.

Hồ Hart ở Nam Úc là một địa điểm về biểu tượng văn hóa cho người Thổ Dân thuộc bộ tộc Kokatha tại đây, thế nhưng cũng là nơi phóng và thử nghiệm hỏa tiễn của Úc. Những nghi vấn mới được nêu lên về việc sử dụng hồ Hart vào mục đích quân sự, khi một hỏa tiễn bay lạc hướng được tìm thấy bên trong khu vực di sản của Thổ Dân, vốn là vùng cấm địa.

Kutcha Edwards is a Mutti Mutti songwriter. He spoke with us about his long-spanning music career, his twenty year involvement with the Beyond the Bars Radio broadcasts and memories from Fitzroy in the 1980s. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, please be advised that this conversation refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away.//This interview forms part of the 3CR Thursday Breakfast crew's contribution to Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects' disorganising.// Evelyn Araluen joined us on 25 March 2021 to speak about her debut collection of poetry, Dropbear. Evelyn is a poet, researcher and co-editor of the Overland literary journal. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Evelyn was born and raised on Dharug Country and she descends from the Bundjalung Nation.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grassroots festivals and arts venues across the country. As a family woman searching for deeper meaning through sound and voice, Lash's is a musical vision of eclectic rarities that is embodied by culture and experience. She caught up with Priya for our show on 2 December 2021 to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Songs// Missing You - Budjerah// We Sing - Kutcha Edwards// Price I Paid - Miiesha// Role Models - Kobie Dee//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Artist, writer and curator SJ Norman joined Rosie earlier this week to speak about his recently released collection of short stories Permafrost. Permafrost 'inverts and queers the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted.' The collection is published by University of Queensland Press.// Lady Lash is a Kokatha and Greek musician who has brought her magic to stages including the Sydney Opera House, prime rooftop bars, grass roots festivals and arts venues across the country. As a family woman searching for deeper meaning through sound and voice, Lash's is a musical vision of eclectic rarities that is embodied by culture and experience. She caught up with Priya earlier in the week to speak about her new album Spiritual Misfit, which was released with Heavy Machinery Records on 22 November.// Content warning: the following interview contains themes of domestic and family violence, which may be distressing to some listeners. Support is available at 1800 RESPECT/1800 737 732, as well as at inTouch/1800 755 988.//Amani Haydar is an award winning artist, lawyer, mother, and author of The Mother Wound, published by Pan MacMillan Australia. Amani speaks on the familial and cultural contexts in which family and domestic violence operate. The Mother Wound is a story that explores intergenerational trauma, dispels myths about victim/survivors, and explores how to grow around your grief with writing that is hopeful, devastating, and impactful.// Matt Chun and Jennine Khalik join us to talk about The Sunday Paper, a new publication launching 6 December that displays the strong solidarity and co-resistances between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian communities in so-called Australia. Jennine Khalik is a Palestinian writer who has 8 years of experience working as a journalist in Australian newsrooms. Matt Chun is an artist and writer whose latest self-published work Do You Ever Wonder? came out earlier this month. The Sunday Paper is available for pre-order here. Lew Ching or LC speaks with us about the impacts of current travel restrictions with the new COVID-19 variant on international students at Australian universities. LC is a Singaporean Chinese psychology major and youth work student at the Australian National University, and has been living in Canberra since 2017. LC also works part time as a peer support worker and as a youth worker.// Songs//Crest of Gold - Lady Lash//

Acknowledgement of country News Headlines Pan Karanikolas joins us to speak about the impacts of abelist Higher Education policy and the further implementation of the 'Job Ready Graduate Package' on disabled students and students with chronic illness. Pan Karanikolas is a PhD candidate in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, where they are also involved with organising casual university workers and fighting to secure jobs with the La Trobe University Casuals Network. They are also a Board Member of Women with Disabilities Victoria.  Professor Sandy O'Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary person.They join Thursday Breakfast to speak about Trans Awareness Week. Sandy is a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow, with a project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.  Associate Professor Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman. Chelsea's work has drawn attention to the role of race in the production of health inequalities. Chelsea spoke with Priya earlier in the week about her new book, Another Day In The Colony, which is published by the University of Queensland Press. Chelsea is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research.   Alex Kakafikas is a long time activist and 3CR broadcaster currently presenting Greek Resistance Bulletin. He is a member of the Solidarity and Defence Fund and joins us this morning to talk about the fund and the importance of building movement infrastructure.  CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY Roxy Moore, Noongar woman and member of the Ban Spit Hoods campaign, speaks with us about the South Australian government's delay in legislating the ban of spit hoods via the Statutes Amendment (Spit Hood Prohibition) Bill, otherwise known as Fella's Bill, in line with campaigning by the family of Wiradjuri, Wirangu and Kokatha man Wayne Fella Morrison. You can support the campaign today by sending an email here. SongsKing Stingray - MilkumanaElectric Fields - Gold EnergyBIRDZ ft. Missy HIggins - LEGACY Part 2.

April Lawrie was appointed South Australia's first Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People in late 2018.Until now, the Mirning and Kokatha woman was working in partnership with the Children's Commissioner, but a change in legislation has given Ms Lawrie independent authority to investigate systemic issues facing young Aboriginal people.In this episode, the Commissioner reflects on her first term, why she is reapplying for the role, and how she would use her investigative powers to improve the lives of Indigenous youth.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Recorded via video conference on the 27th of August, the artist is joined by IMA Executive Director Liz Nowell in conversation. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name.

The incredible Frances Rings, Bangarra's Associate Artistic Director, joins us on this episode of Talking Pointes. A descendant of the Kokatha people, Frances was born in Adelaide and spent her childhood traveling, dancing, and living all around Australia while her father worked on the railways. However, it was a teacher at her boarding school in Queensland that spotted her talent, and encouraged her to audition for NAISDA, the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association.And so at 18 years of age, Frances boarded a Greyhound bus and traveled the 12 hours to Sydney. In this beautifully raw and personal interview, Frances talks about her journey into dance, her incredible career with Bangarra, and finding confidence in her own body. But Frances talks about more than that. Her onstage connection with the late Russell Page, becoming a mum, and the pressure but also the importance of not only being a female leader, but a First Nations female leader in dance in Australia.Listen here or find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify.For our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, this episode of Talking Pointes contains the names of people who have passed. Please pause now, if you'd prefer not to hear their names. The Page family have given Bangarra Dance Theatre permission to use their names for the purpose of this interview. And just a trigger warning for this episode, we discuss issues around suicide, so if you'd prefer not to listen or read, please press pause or stop reading now. Your host and producer is Claudia Lawson, additional production by Penelope Ford, with editing and sound production by Martin Peralta. And for the latest in all things dance, head to fjordreview.com.

We hear from Latoya Aroha Rule speaking on the Justice for Fella campaign, including the campaign nationally to legislate a ban on dangerous spit hoods, and on abolition politics—as well as news and tunes. Latoya is an Aboriginal & Maori, Takatāpui researcher, undertaking their PhD at UTS on Gadigal Land. Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man, Wayne Fella Morrison, their brother, was a father, fisherman and artist. Wayne Fella Morrison died nearly 5 years ago in hospital after being restrained by prison guards on remand in Yatala prison,  Kaurna country in South Australia. Find the #BanSpitHoods. Stop Black Deaths in Custody petition here. Follow the Justice for Fella campaign on Facebook, and support the Gofundme. NewsSupport for Wilcannia donations information hereBobuq Sayed writing in Junkee, and the Action for Afghanistan petition TracksWe sing until sunrise - The MerindasOur Lives Matter - BarkaaWurega Djalin - Alice SkyeMotorcycle - June Jones and Geryon

Latoya is an Aboriginal & Maori, Takatāpui researcher, undertaking their PhD at UTS on Gadigal Land. Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man, Wayne Fella Morrison, their brother, was a father, fisherman and artist. Wayne Fella Morrison died nearly 5 years ago in hospital after being restrained by prison guards on remand in Yatala prison,  Kaurna country in South Australia.  They speak on the circumstances of Wayne's death, the Justice for Fella campaign, including the call to legislate a ban on spit hoods nationally, and touch on abolition.  Find the #BanSpitHoods, Stop Black Deaths in Custody petition here. Follow the Justice for Fella campaign on Facebook, and support the Gofundme. You can listen to more of this interview on Queering the Air here. 

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Missile Park by Yhonnie Scarce is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which runs from 17 July to 18 September, 2021. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations ranging from the intimate to the architectural, each full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Missile Park is a survey exhibition co-commissioned by the IMA with ACCA, Melbourne. It brings together work from the last 15 years of Scarce's practice, alongside a major new commission from which the exhibition takes its name. This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe four key works from Missile Park, followed by didactic text written by exhibition co-curators Lisa Waup, Liz Nowell, and Max Delaney to aid interpretation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition tour discusses images of deceased people.

Today we have highlights from the second of ICAN's Ban School series, which is titled Resistence is forever. This session dives into this rich and living history of resistance of First Nations people in Australia and the pacific. The show featurtes Talei Mangioni, Fijian-Italian PhD candidate at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Wayne Kijiner from the Marshall Islands Students Association (MISA) and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha elder and nuclear test survivor from Ceduna, South Australia.The Ban School session also included Debbie Carmody, Anangu Spinifex Pilki and Western Nullarbor person. Unfortunately the sound quality meant I couldn't include her story in the show - but please check out these earlier Rad Shows that include it in two parts here: https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202102201000/maralinga-mulga-rock-part-one https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202102271000/maralinga-mulga-rock-part-twoLeanr more about ICAN's Ban School here: https://icanw.org.au/banschool/

Listen now to a conversation between between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Mykaela Saunders, writer, teacher, and community researcher and Dimity Hawkins, Australian activist, researcher and academic. This podcast concludes the series produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', including Glass with Yhonnie Scarce, Kristel Britcher and Lisa Slade, Architecture with Louis Mokak, Mikhail Rodrick and Kim Bridgland, Family with Hannah Presley and Lisa Waup and Concrete Archives with Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford.

Listen now to a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia and Lisa Radford, artist and writer about their collaborative project 'Concrete Archives.' Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'

SA Native Title Services is the publisher of Aboriginal Way - we assist Aboriginal people in South Australia to gain recognition and to protect their native title rights and interests.While on a recent work trip, we spoke to Mick Starkey, our Cultural Heritage and Land Management Senior Project Officer.His Kokatha people received native title in 2014 over approximately 140,000 km2 of their land in the northern region of South Australia between Lake Torrens and Lake Gairdner.One morning, Mick made some billy tea and was happy to sit and speak about his work as a park ranger at Uluru for 26 years, the fight to receive native title over Kokatha country, and how cultural and natural values go hand in hand.

Listen now to a discussion about the medium of glass between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Kristel Britcher, artist, designer and head of the Jam Factory glass studio, and Lisa Slade, Assistant Director at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.

Mali Isabel is an Arabana and Kokatha artist making a name for herself on Kaurna land. The 21-year-old was a successful applicant of a year-long residency at Carclew where she is developing her skills in painting, photography and ceramics. Mali bases her work on equality by using every colour of the rainbow and has big plans for her art empire.Instagram: @malisabelart

Gina Rings is an award winning choreographer and dancer with over 30 years’ experience in the arts.Hailing from the west coast of South Australia, Gin Rings is a Kokatha woman who knew she wanted to be on stage before she was out of nappies.Speaking of nappies, she is the artistic director for an upcoming show at the 2021 DreamBIG Children’s festival, called Our Corka bubs.Our Corka Bubs is the first ever Aboriginal contemporary dance work for babies. The best part, the whole show is in Ngarrindjeri language.

Listen now to Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Daniel Browning, producer and presenter of Awaye! on ABC Radio National, as they unpack a range of ideas in Scarce’s practice and consider the works on display in the artist’s major solo survey, 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park'. Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to intimately-scaled assemblages replete with personal and cultural histories. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations full of aesthetic, cultural and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Daniel Browning is an Aboriginal journalist, radio broadcaster, documentary maker, sound artist and writer. Currently, he produces and presents Awaye!, the Indigenous art and culture program on ABC RN, a specialist radio network of Australia’s national broadcaster. Awaye! surveys contemporary Indigenous cultural practice across the arts spectrum. A visual arts graduate, Daniel is also a widely-published freelance arts writer. He is a former guest editor of Artlink Indigenous, and the curator of Blak Box, a specially-designed sound pavilion commissioned by Urban Theatre Projects. He studied English and Art History at the University of Queensland before graduating with a degree in visual arts from the Queensland University of Technology. Daniel is a descendant of the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of far northern New South Wales and south-western Queensland. Image: Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Daniel Browning at ACCA. Photograph: Arini Byng

Tai Snaith returns to the studio for the fortnightly visual arts segment Art Attack, chatting about her artistic process whilst working from home, and reviewing Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce’s ‘Looking Glass’, on display at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. Described by curator Hetti Perkins as both “a love song and lament for country”, this exhibition sees Watson, a Waanyi artist, and Scarce, a Kokatha and Nukunu artist, explore the painful, dark history of the Australian landscape in poignant synergy. Jane Scott, Curator of Flesh After Fifty at the Abbotsford Convent introduces the exhibition’s program of events, challenging ageism, sexism, and body shame to celebrate and promote older women within the art world. Featuring commissions from 14 dynamic Australian artists, the exhibition includes talks from both artists and medical professionals on subjects such as menopause and family violence.Finally, Dr Miranda Wallace, Senior Curator at the NGV announces the gallery’s winter offering, French Impressionism, featuring 79 works which have never previously been exhibited in Australia. Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition will chart the major developments of this artistic period through key figures such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. 

Is Lake Torrens the next Juukan Gorge? Lake Torrens in South Australia is a sacred site and place of deep cultural significance to Kokatha, Adnyamathanha, Kuyani and Barngarla peoples. However government approval has been granted to exploratory drilling company Kelaray (a subsidiary of Argonaut Resources) to begin drilling at this vulnerable site.This week on Earth Matters guest producer Joy Lothian from Aboriginal Way Radio at Radio Adelaide speaks with Kokatha Senior Lawman Andrew Starkey and the CEO of SA Native Title Services Keith Thomas about the very deep concerns that Traditional Owners and communities in this region have regarding this latest exploratory mining project at Lake Torrens. This week's show is #1281 and was produced by Joy Lothian

Exploration drilling will go ahead early this year on Lake Torrens, a sacred Aboriginal site, after approval was announced by the Premier Steven Marshall during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. The authorisation gives minerals exploration company Kelaray permission to “damage, disturb or interfere” with sites, objects and remains under Section 23 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act.Kelaray are a subsidiary of Argonaut Resources, who we discovered last week were actually awarded a $320,000 grant from the South Australian Government mid-last year for mining on Lake Torrens –before the drilling was even approved!We spoke with South Australian Native Title Services CEO Keith Thomas and Kokatha senior law man and Lake Torrens car holder Andrew Starkey about the decision.This interview was first broadcast on Friday 15 January 2021.

Ireland in the mid-1800s was not a particularly happy or pleasant time as it was the period of the Great Hunger. Tom Sullivan, writer and director of the film, ARRACHT joins Richard to chat about the impact of the great hunger on Irish Culture and the way it's explored in ARRACHT. Every year, Creative Partnerships Australia gives out awards to celebrate philanthropy in the arts sector. Richard is joined by the CEO of Creative Partnerships Australia, Fiona Menzies, to discuss the 2020 awards winners, plus provide an overview of the awards and why philanthropy is an important part of the arts sector. Waanyi artist Judy Watson and Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce share recent and personally painful histories of the destruction, exploitation, and degradation of land and of colonisation. Curator of the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Hetti Perkins discusses with Richard Judy and Yhonnie’s latest exhibition Looking Glass. Detailing Australia’s secret and dirty war—a battle fought on many fronts from colonial massacres to Stolen Generations, from the Maralinga bomb tests to the climate emergency. Looking Glass is being exhibited at TarraWarra from November 28th to March 8th.The Melbourne Fringe Festival is a mix of wacky and wonderful shows. Two such shows are CATS: The Movie, the Musical, The Production, The Artist & Lousical The Musical, created by Jean Tong and Lou Wall respectively. One is a mockumentary that punches down on a musical that has been “piss taken to the ends of the Earth and back,” whilst the other is a pop music comedy, part stand up, part song, and part “online meme content”. Both shows were available to stream online as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival’s 2020 programming. ARRACHT (Trailer) | YouTubeIreland Picks ‘Arracht’ for Oscars’ International Feature Film Race | VarietyMeet our 2020 Creative Partnerships Award recipients | Creative Partnerships AustraliaMATCH Lab | Creative Partnerships AustraliaPlus1 | Creative Partnerships AustraliaLooking Glass | TarraWarra Museum of ArtCATS: The Movie, the Musical, The Production, The Artist | Melbourne FringeLousical The Musical | Melbourne Fringe

This show is a banger! We have an interview with Izzy Brown about BHP Billiton and their plans for the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia.This will be the third time the lizard is returning to Roxby Downs. Olympic Dam and Arabunna and Kokatha country. So yeah, this is this is volume three of the Lizard. Well, BHP is being very sly they, are pushing through for an expansion, have been doing it in a very uncouth manner with the help of the South Australian government, they're expanding the water usage and potentially the pipeline into Arabunna country and around Lake Eyre [Kati Thanda ]. They're upping their daily rate to 50 million liters of water per day from the Artesian Basin. This is just crazy isn't in a time where, you know, water is in shortage and something that we should be preserving. The South Australian government has given them in the green light to expand on their water use, expand on their underground mine, and also build new tailings dams. Dams that don't reach reach the requirements of the new global standard that BHP has signed on to since those last disasters in Brazil.A report back from the Brisbane muscians and community rally for refugees on Saturday, and we'll hear from one of the detainees.Plus Bad Cop No Donut which includes a first hand report from Izzy about the police incident at the Reggae Stage during the Sydney Street Festival in Melbourne.Plenty of music to smash the state by as well.The picture is of the Mound Springs which have been affected by BHP Billiton's activities taking 35 billion litres per day out of the Great Artesian Basin.

The exhibition, ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’, was inspired by a group trip in August 2019, of seven activists/artists/friends, to Kokatha, Anangu and Maralinga Tjuratja lands in South Australia. We made recordings along the way, which became part of the soundscape for the exhibition. Recordings made from our camp on Country near Yalata include the voices of Rita Bryant, Mima Smart, and Russell Bryant. Tune into hear from artists in ‘Bladerunner was set in November 2019’.On the beginnings of the Anthropocene and the blurring of nuclear pasts/presents/futures.On wind and dispersal. On being hosted on Country, surrounded by fires (waru) and sharing stories, laughs and songs. Bladerunner was set in November 2019 is being held in Melbourne from 25 October - 16 November.Featuring artists Tessa Rex, Yul Scarf, Jessie Boylan, Andrea Steves, Alex Moulis, Gem Romuld and Crunch.  

Sneaky, dirty business: BHP Olympic Dam expansionBHP is up to their old tricks again, trying to expand their dirty uranium mine and sneaky industrial practices, by spinning it with the tired old hype that it will create jobs. But even a cursory glance at their recent track record as an employer shows that looking after workers is not really part of their game plan.Arabunna Elder & Law Man Uncle Kevin Buzzacott has long lead the fight against this toxic mine and remains forefront of resistance to this latest threat to Arabunna & Kokatha lands & water. He joins Robbie Thorpe on 3CR's Fire First program, to yarn up about how the ongoing fight to protect country needs all of our support, everywhere.Earth Matters #1189 was produced by Nicky Stott  

The AFL legend shares some Kokatha language including two very familiar cross-over words.

The AFL legend shares some Kokatha language including two very familiar cross-over words.

In Episode 3 of FIELD WORK, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Yhonnie Scarce, academic Odette Kaleda and curator Clothilde Bullen about complex histories of Indigenous Trauma. Yhonnie Scarce is a Kokatha and Nukunu woman from South Australia. She uses the unlikely medium of glass to explore the treatment of Aboriginal Australians in both historic and contemporary contexts.

On Saturday the 17th of June, a women led, all-inclusive rally was held in Melbourne in solidarity with the Women's March to Ban the Bomb! and as part of a National Day of Action in anticipation of the Global Nuclear Weapons ban.  Today we feature recordings from the rally and march featuring excerpts from speeches by Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Kokatha survivor of nuclear testing, Greens Senator Janet Rice and Caroline Lambert from the International Women’s Development Agency.  Also interviews with attendees and music from the Riff Raff Radical Marching band.  

Marshallese activist and educator Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner uses the power of words and performance to explore the effects of nuclear testing and climate change on her beloved home, the Marshall Islands. She shares a piece on her teenage discovery of the racist nuclear testing program and the origin of the bikini swimsuit's name.Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Kokatha woman from South Australia, Sue Coleman-Haseldine, address the UN conference to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear weapons; invoking their experience of the bomb and demanding a strong treaty so there are “no new victims under a mushroom cloud”. The treaty under negotiation is a new chance to hasten the end of the nuclear age.Image: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner addresses the UN Climate Summit in 2014.Earth Matters #1083 was produced by Gem Romuld. Thanks to KA for the interview with Kathy.

UN negotiations for a nuclear weapon ban treaty started with a one week session at the UN at the end of March. The aim of the ban is to de-legimatise nuclear bombs and put them on the same legal footing as other weapons of mass destruction, working much like the prohibitions on the use of chemical and biological weapons. This show includes a speech at the UN by Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a Kokatha elder and nuclear bomb survivor from South Australia, and Tilman Ruff, one of the founder of International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons or ICAN and co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.Music by Combat Wombat (Go to combatwombat.com.au to hear their new album)

This week we tune in to the campaign to stop the Great Australian Bight from becoming an oil field. Kokatha elder Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine and Breony Carbines from the Clean Bight Alliance Australia tell us what is at stake and why they don't trust the company that brought us the Gulf of Mexico disaster.Rosemary Lester, Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman is finding ways to get information out to remote communities via the radio-waves, to keep Aboriginal people informed of what's threatening country. You can listen to the "Paper Tracker" here and like her facebook page here: Ngura - Country.Image: Southern Right Whales and their calves in the Great Australian Bight.