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VAN Talks Podcast

Victorian Aboriginal News

Heading back to our roots and building on the work we undertook in the leadup to the 2023 Referendum, Victorian Aboriginal News (VAN) Talks focuses on the positivity that is Aboriginal Victoria. Covering everything from Voice, Treaty and Truth and Reconciliation through to Aboriginal businesses and Traditional Owner initiatives, the VAN Talks podcast is the only podcast that travels across the State to deliver interviews and stories that are the truth of Aboriginal Victoria.

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S5 · E19
July 23 · 21 min
S05-E19: Youth taking leadership in the Victorian Treaty process
Send us Fan Mail First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria members Tarni Morris and Levi Power discuss how First Nations youth are stepping up to lead Victoria’s historic Treaty,
S5 · E18
July 20 · 22 min
S04-E18: First Nations economic participation sparks national debate and rethinking
Send us Fan Mail Uncle Ian Hamm joins VAN Talks to argue that true self-determination requires shifting from rights-based social policies to macro-economic participation and wealth independence.
S5 · E17
July 15 · 20 min
S05-E17: Gunditjmara Elder sets challenges to the Western Eurocentric bureaucracies
Send us Fan Mail Recently, having given a magnificent oration on SBS’s NITV, Uncle Richard Frankland goes even deeper into his five challenges for institutions, governments, and ourselves, as well as social engineering and the need to be free thinkers.
July 12 · 23 min
S05-E16: VACCHO marks 30 years of community control and self-determination
Send us Fan Mail As VACCHO marks 30 years, CEO Aunty Jill Gallagher reflects on the early struggles, the power of community-led healthcare, and the non-negotiable right to self-determination.
S5 · E15
June 29 · 21 min
S05-E15: Demand for true accountability in Indigenous Procurement Policy
Send us Fan Mail Principal lawyer and founder of AMK Law, Matthew Karakoulakis, unpacks critical new updates to Australia’s Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP). He looks past the percentages on paper to explore why true First Nations economic self-determination relies on 'effective control' and accountability.

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VAN Talks Podcast

Episodes 25

S05-E19: Youth taking leadership in the Victorian Treaty process

S04-E18: First Nations economic participation sparks national debate and rethinking

S05-E17: Gunditjmara Elder sets challenges to the Western Eurocentric bureaucracies

S05-E16: VACCHO marks 30 years of community control and self-determination

S05-E15: Demand for true accountability in Indigenous Procurement Policy