Acknowledgement of country

News headlines with Cait Kelly

In episode 6 of Liberation Loops, Carly speaks with Lauren Caulfield. Lauren works at the intersection of interpersonal and state-sanctioned gender violence, and is involved in training, organising work and community-based interventions to violence. She also coordinates the “Policing Family Violence: Changing the Story” project, which is a collaborative, integrated community legal and survivor support project that responds to harm and criminalisation of people through family violence policing.

Max speaks with Apryl Watson, daughter of Aunty Tanya Day, on the open letter and petition from families of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody calling on the Australian Governments to urgently release people from prison to prevent COVID-19 deaths.

Scheherazade speaks with Dr Shakira Hussein, a writer and academic in multiculturalism and Muslim studies at the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, about the intersection of race, islamophobia and COVID-19.

Priya speaks with Chelsea Bond, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and long-term Aboriginal Health Worker and researcher. Chelsea is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland’s Poche Health Centre for Indigenous Health, and a co-host of the show Wild Black Women on 98.9FM in Meanjin. They discuss the public discussion around the 250th anniversary of Cook’s invasion.

To intro this segment we hear a poem by Neika Lehman titled ‘Cook 250’. Neika Lehman is a writer and artist living and working on Kulin Country. Neika grew up in Tasmania | lutruwita and descends from the Trawlwoolway peoples of north east Tasmania. Their ancestral and contemporary stories inform Neika’s written and visual practice.