The Mission

Veronica Gorrie, a proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, talks to presenter Daniel James about her new book, Black and Blue; an honest and sometimes harrowing account of her life as an Aboriginal woman in the police force.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Neil Morris discusses the illegal felling of trees at The Flats on Yorta Yorta country. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Priscilla Atkins, Co-Chair of The National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) discusses Black Deaths in Custody. Then, social worker and social justice advocate Sue-Anne Hunter on the March For Justice movement.With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Healing Foundation CEO Fiona Petersen discusses the Aged Care Royal Commission and its implications for members of the stolen generations. Then, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson, First Nations People of Assembly Co-Chair and Bangerang and Wiradjuri woman, talks about the establishment of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission by the Victorian Government, which will be the nation’s first truth-telling process into injustices experienced by Aboriginal people since colonisation. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Dr Damien Finch from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences, tells Daniel how Australia's oldest rock art painting has been identified. Then, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar talks about racially-motivated violence, and issues confronting Aboriginal women and girls. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Naomi Moran, First Nations Media Australia Vice-Chair, discusses how the Facebook ban on Australian media content affects First Nations communities; and Dr Jason Agostino, National Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation (NACCHO) Medical Advisor, talks about plans to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccine to First Nation communities across the country. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Jadah Pleiter discusses providing the Victorian public with a deeper understanding into the State’s true history with the new campaign, 'Deadly And Proud.' And Nala Mansell, Campaign Coordinator at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, reflects on the decade-long campaign agitating for The Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery to return 14,000-year-old Aboriginal artefacts to their original site. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

UNSW Engineering Associate Professor Fiona Johnson discusses her recent report regarding up to 22 sacred Indigenous sites and important river systems being under threat in the Northern Territory. With presenter Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

New SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle talks about the challenges facing Aboriginal children in 2021; and Archie Roach talks about his memoir 'Tell Me Why: the Story of My Life and My Music', which recently won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Productivity Commissioner Romlie Mokak explores the release of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report; and Dr. Lois Peeler discusses William Cooper's legacy with respect to the German government officially apologising for its refusal to accept the Australian Aborigines League letter of protest about the Nazi persecution of Jews. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Jill Gallagher, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), reflects on how the Victorian State Budget impacts Aboriginal Communities; and Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy discusses the repeal of public drunkenness as a criminal offence. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Professor Hugh Taylor AC, Melbourne Laureate Professor, talks about Closing The Gap on Indigenous eye health; and Damian Griffis, CEO First Peoples Disability Network, talks about First Nations people with disability raising injustice, discrimination, at the Disability Royal Commission. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Sue-Anne Hunter, Chair of Family Matters, talks about 'The Family Matters Report 2020' findings of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children taken away from their families at alarming rates; and Lisa Annese CEO, Diversity Council Australia, speaks about the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian workplaces. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Social justice trailblazer Pat Anderson AO talks about sharing the Uluru Statement from the Heart with multicultural communities, and working toward translating it into more than 60 languages; and Justin Mohamed, Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, discusses the increasing use of remand to detain Aboriginal children. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

SBS Director of Indigenous Content Tanya Denning-Orman talks to fill-in host Paul Gorrie about NITV's NAIDOC Week lineup.With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Kent Morris, CEO of The Torch, talks about the online exhibition ‘Future Dreaming’ featuring artworks created within Victorian prisons during the pandemic; and Djab Wurrung woman Sissy Eileen Austin expresses her grief for the destruction of a sacred tree on Djab Wurrung country. With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Dr Brian Martin talks about a new project aiming to produce an Indigenous-led study on the significance of trees in southeast Australian Aboriginal cultures; and Luke Briscoe, aka DJ DIMULJI (MYSTIC) chats about his 'Music Culture Change' podcast series. With presenter Paul Gorrie, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Architect Jefa Greenaway reflects on the United Nations sustainable development goals; and Lee Sheppeard, PhD candidate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, chats about her research into Sports for Development (SfD) for Aboriginal people, and the recent Federal Budget. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Lawyer and researcher Eddie Synot comments on the Greens changed position on the Uluru Statement From The Heart; and NSW 2020 Young Australian Of The Year Corey Tutt chats 'Deadly Science' and his Eureka Award nomination. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Writer Jack Latimore shares his response to the Black Lives Matter movement, discussing his new essay for 'Meanjin Quarterly' called ‘Through a Mask, Breathing’. Then author Thomas Mayor joins Daniel to discuss his latest book ’Finding Our Heart: A Story about the Uluru Statement for Young Australians’. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Nerita Waight, Co Chair of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS), discusses a proposal for an independent police oversight body for investigating instances of police brutality. And journalist Rachael Hocking talks to Daniel about First Nations connection to country music and the cancellation of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Professor Barry Judd, Director of Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, talks to Daniel about racism and the AFL. And Jamie Lowe, CEO of the National Native Title Council, talks about new consequences facing Rio Tinto after their destruction of the Juukan caves. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Professor Marcia Langton AM discusses the impact of mining companies on Aboriginal heritage sites, ahead of the WA Government releasing its draft Aboriginal Heritage Protection Bill. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Michael Bell from the Australian War Memorial talks about Aboriginal servicemen in the Vietnam War; and Torres Strait Island man Yessie Mosby talks about the legal action and fight to save the Torres Strait Islands from climate change. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Academic and anti-racism campaigner Dr. Stephen Hagan discusses his 20 year campaign to re-name a brand of cheese. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Catherine Liddle, CEO of First Nations Media, talks to Daniel about the new national agreement on Closing the Gap. And Daniel McAullay discusses the threat of the pandemic on urban aboriginal communities.With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Roxanne Moore, Executive Officer from NATSILS (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service) discusses why we need to raise the age of criminal responsibility. And Meriki Onus, co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, talks about the recent Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney.With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Alan Thorpe, Director of Dardi Munwurro (Strong Spirit) 24 hr crisis line 'Brother To Brother' talks about the important work of on supporting Aboriginal men through COVID; and Fred Hooper, Chairperson, Northern Basins Aboriginal Nations (NBAN), discusses Murray Darling Basin water policy.With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Marcus Stewart, Co-Chair of the First People's Assembly of Victoria, talks about the Victorian Government’s support for a truth-telling process; and Tracey Hanshaw, founder of Justice Aunties Inc, talks about NITV's premiere of 'Living Black: Aboriginal Lives Matter.' With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Jill Gallagher AO discusses Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations' (VACCHO) response to the hard lockdown in Melbourne's public housing.With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Dr Shireen Morris, a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, discusses how public support for the Uluru Statement From The Heart is key to the end of structural racism in Australia; and Telphia-Leanne Joseph, Associate Lecturer, UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW, explores why there is a low uptake of the flu vaccine amongst Aboriginal people. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

CEO of Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, Dennis Eggington, talks about law reform in the wake Ms Dhu's tragic death in custody in 2014. And Gunai-Gunditjimara woman Lidia Thorpe discusses her new role as Senator for Victoria. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Co-Chair of the National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, Nerita Weight talks about Coalition of Peaks partnering with Australian governments to close the gap; And Meriki Onus, co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, discusses Aboriginal deaths in custody and the recent nation-wide protests.With presenter Declan Furber Gillick, aka Gizmo D, filling in for Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Historian, activist and actor Gary Foley talks about the current Black Lives Matter protests and their historical significance, as well as his appearance at the upcoming St Kilda Film Festival. And Nerita Weight, Co-Chair of the National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, discusses the recent High Court decision that using tear gas on children in Don Dale was unlawful. With presenter Declan Furber Gillick, aka Gizmo D, filling in for Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Chief Executive of the National Native Title Council, Jamie Lowe, discusses the recent destruction of an Aboriginal heritage site by Rio Tinto mining company in the Western Pilbara region; and artist Thea Anamara Perkins talks about her artistic processes and inspirations, having just won the 2020 First Nations Arts Dreaming Award for an Emerging Artist. With presenter Declan Furber Gillick, aka Gizmo D, filling in for Daniel James. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

On this Sorry Day episode, Dr Andrew Peters talks about the importance of recognition and reconciliation; and former CEO of Aboriginal Housing Victoria, Jenny Samms, provides an update on the Victorian Government's announcement to upgrade social housing for Aboriginal families. With presenter Daniel James.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-mission

Writer and director Larissa Behrendt talks about the making of her new film MARALINGA TJARUTJA. And Kellyanne Andy, Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women's Service Inc CEO, discusses access to public and social housing for Aboriginal women escaping family violence. With presenter Daniel James.

Visual artist Mayrah Dreise talks about the importance of listening to Elders' wisdom and knowledge; and the Australian War Memorial's Indigenous Liaison Officer Michael Bell talks about the history of First Nations men and women serving in armed forces. With presenter Daniel James.

First Nations lawyer Roxanne Moore and Tanya Day's daughter Apryl Watson discuss the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. With presenter Daniel James.

Reconciliation Victoria CEO Diana David and newly appointed Co-Chair Shane Charles explore a future of respect, justice and understanding; and journalist Amy McQuire reports on the fight against COVID-19 in Aboriginal communities. With presenter Daniel James.

Indigitek Director, Ben Armstrong, yarns about the lack of Aboriginal people in ccience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers; and Catherine Liddle of First Nations Media Australia discusses digital inclusion and cyber safety awareness in inDigiMOB. With presenter Daniel James.

Karen Heap, Chairperson of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation discusses the need for personal protective equipment in Aboriginal health settings; and Apryl Watson, daughter of Tanya Day, discusses the findings of the coronial inquest into her mother’s death. With presenter Daniel James.

Dr. Thalia Anthony from UTS's Faculty of Law discusses the potential impacts of COVID-19 in prisons and CEO of Leedal, John Rodriguez informs on the disruption in food supply in remote Aboriginal communities due to panic buying the city.

Dr Tanya Schramm, a board member of Australian Indigenous Doctors Association about patients facing racism during the pandemic. Then Youth Affairs Council Victoria’s Young Thinker in Residence Levi McKenzie-Kirkbright discusses his essay Sovereignty: A Way Forward.

Daniel is joined on the line by Dawn Casey, Deputy CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, to discuss some of the measures put in place to protect Aboriginal communities from COVID-19. Then, Chair of The Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Reference Group, Ian Hamm highlights the historic Stolen Generations Redress Scheme

This week on The Mission, Daniel is joined on the line by co-host of NITV football talk show Yokayi Footy, Tony Armstrong. Then Daniel is joined in the studio by the host of RRR program Still Here, Niel Morris. Finally author and activist Thomas Mayor phones in to chat about Indigenous affairs.

Daniel returns to interview Archie Roach and then is joined on the phone by CEO of Aboriginal Housing Victoria, Darren Smith.

Guest host Rachel Hocking and Lidia Thorpe discuss Invasion Day protests and paying the rent. Then Rachel interviews Sydney singer/songwriter, Akala Newman.

Guest host Gizmo D is joined by co-host Yorta Yorta musician, Allara. First up an interview with Boonwurrung man, Steve Parker, about his work in flora and fauna education. Then Creative Director Caroline Briggs Martin phones in to chat about the upcoming YIRRAMBOI festival.

Guest host Gizmo D presents selected tracks from Arrente language learing tools from the arrernte-angkentye.online resource. Plus, Bundjalung man and Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation CEO Oliver Costello phone in to discuss cultural burning.