Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018

Acknowledgement of Country

Alison Gibbins - Deputy National Director of Amnesty International Australia's on the shameful reality of children in detention, the over representation of aboriginal children in detention, theBanksia Hill Detention centre, and the findings of a recent report.

Charandev Singh - Human rights advocate and member of the Abolitionist and Tranforming Justice Centre spoke about #PrisonStrike2018, prison abolition and the history of resistance.  In 2018 Activists targeted SERCO's Melbourne Headquarters at 535 Bourke Street to bring attention to its expanding colonisation and commodification of imprisoned Aboriginal women at their new private women's prison in Gatton, Queensland and their ongoing record of indefinite detention, torture and deaths in custody in all their on-shore and International refugee and other prisons.

Melissa Lucashenko - Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage joins us to talk about her latest book, Too Much Lip. High energy and profoundly funny - the book takes you on an intergenerational journey, set in the aboriginal underclass in country NSW.

(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)

SONG:  Lady Lash - Busy Bee

SONG:  Mojo Juju - I just wanna know