Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration, Support for Disability Services Workers, Digital Rights Watch: Privacy, Charter of Human Rights and Social Media Inquiry, Anaiwan Land Back Campaign

Thursday, 20 January 2022 - 7:00am to 8:30am
A man standing with his arms crossed and smiling with eucalypts in the background

We hear Janet Galpin, Boonwurrung Foundation Representative, speaking at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration 2021. This year's commemoration took place today 20th January and was broadcast live on 3CR from 12pm

 

We are joined by Angus MacFarland, Acting Secretary of The Australian Services Union, to discuss the urgent need for Commonwealth and State governments to provide support to essential disability services workers, including paid isolation leave, priority boosters and personal protective equipment. 

 

Samantha Floreani, Program Lead with Digital Rights Watch, joins us to discuss the searching of returned travellers' phones by Australian Border Force and the need for a Federal Charter of Human Rights, as well as the review of the federal Privacy Act, and the current Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety. 

 

Dave Widders, proud Anaiwan man and campaign media representative for the Anaiwan Land buyback joins us to speak about Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation's Land Back campaign, raising funds to buy a piece of land for Anaiwan cultural practice, care for Country and language revitalization.

 

Songs

Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane

Birdz - Know Your Truth

DRMNGNOW - Indigenous Land