NAIDOC Week! Megan Krakouer on community responses; Greg Jericho on inflation; Beyond The Bars - Fulham Prison and connection; Renuga Inpakumar on the fight to stop the deportation of Dixtan Arulban.

Thursday, 6 July 2023 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Colourful background with four elders with the title For Our Elders

Acknowledgement of country//

News//

7:15AM - Megan Krakouer//

PART 1 ( LOADED into INTERVIEWS) We'll hear the first part of a conversation between Megan Krakouer, Noongar woman and project director at the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, and Uncle Robbie Thorpe from the 8th of May about community-based ways of dealing with trauma and looking after young people. You can catch Uncle Robbie on 3CR Wednesdays at 11AM on Bunjil's Fire.//

7:30AM - Greg Jericho//

Next up, we will hear Leila's interview with Greg Jericho, who is the Policy Director, Labour Market and Fiscal for the Centre for Future Work and a Guardian columnist. Today Greg will be discussing the findings from the OECD’s latest report into what’s driving inflation in so-called Australia.//

7:45AM - Beyond the Bars//

3CR First Nations Programmers are LIVE from Victorian prisons all this week for Beyond The Bars - Connecting First Nations people with families and community during NAIDOC (see www.3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2023). This morning we bring you a clip from 3CR's Beyond the Bars broadcast yesterday from Fulham Prison. Where First Nations people who have been criminalised talk about family, connection, and arts practise. Tune into Beyond the Bars, broadcasting all of NAIDOC this week.//

TW/CW: If any of the content from this broadcast is distressing, feel free to contact 13 YARN for mob only support, and Lifeline on 13 11 14.//

8:00AM - Renuga Inpakumar from Tamil Refugee Council//

Then we'll hear from Renuga Inpakumar from the Tamil Refugee Council, who is a young Eelam Tamil activist and Law/Arts student with a long history of organising to amplify Eelam Tamil issues. She will be speaking to us about the fight to stop the deportation of Dixtan Arulban and granting him a permanent visa.//

TW/CW: This interview will likely involve brief discussions of sexual violence, racial violence, and genocide. If you feel that this interview will be distressing for you to listen to at the moment, feel free to join us again in about 15 minutes. You can also contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 and 1800RESPECT for further support, as well as Foundation House //

Songs:

Sunsets - Kee'Ahn//
Spring to Life - Tia Gostelow//