VAN Talks Podcast
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.
VAN Talks Podcast
Latest Episodes
S06-E07: Real changes needed in the current Reconciliation Action Plan program
VAN's Reconciliation Lead, Professor Andrew Gunstone, speaks with Charles about his key observations made during the 2026 National RAP Conference held in Adelaide. Among them, the need for RAP organisations to be more public in their RAP progre...
S06-E06: Gellung Warl commits to community accountability and answerability on Treaty process
We meet up with Aunty Esme Bamblett and Uncle Michael "Mookeye" Bell, two member of Gellung Warl who have been at the lead of developing the organisation's mission-critical community accountability and answerability framework.
S06-E05: Bendigo community and environment clearly benefiting from Dja Dja Wurrung cultural knowledge
VAN's Charles Pakana meets up with DJAARA (representing Dja Dja Wurrung peoples) CEO, Cassandra Lewis and explores clear examples of how the broader Bendigo community and environment are benefiting from traditional cultural knowledges.
S06-E04: Exploring the beauty of the yidaki with internationally acclaimed Ganga Giri
The yearning to learn how to play the yidaki came to Ganga Giri in a dream when you was a young fella. Now, 35 years later, he's learnt how to play from the traditional custodians of the instrument and taken the beauty of its "grounding" music ...
S06-E03: Kaley Nicholson, CEO of FVTOC, kicks off our conversations about UNDRIP
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is greatly misunderstood - if even heard of - within society. We kick off a series of discussions about this critical document with the CEO of the Federation of Victori...
Fan Mail
Nhinni Marni, Unc. Andrew here. Thank you so much for VAN Talks & of course to all the many guests over the years. Thank you for MC'ing too Unc last night at Werribee. It's an absolute honour & I'm so proud to have met you. My Father & Grandparents would have been proud to have met you too I reckon. Thank you Unc ✊🏾👍🏾
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