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-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...
S06-E02: Bringing First Nations knowledge systems into a Euro-centric tertiary educational system
Joining Charles Pakana on the podcast is Gunditjmara man Uncle Mark Rose, the inaugural First Nations Commissioner of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. For decades, he has challenged Australian academia to recognise Indigenous knowl...
S06-E01: Reconciliation in Seymour - one of Victoria's highest recorded "No" vote regions
VAN Talks welcomes reconciliation activist Ruth Yeatman, who talks about championing reconciliation in one of Victoria's highs recorded "No" vote regions.
S05-E40: Understanding the Acknowledgement of Country
VAN's Charles Pakana catches up with Wurundjeri Elder and lore man Uncle Bill Nicholson to discuss the use - and often ofter use - of the Acknowledgement of Country. (A full transcript is available on the VAN website - www.vicaboriginalnews.com...
S05-E39: The Frontier Wars need to be recognised for the brutality that underpins Australian history
Filmmaker Rachel Perkins unpacks Australia’s brutal frontier wars, revealing how a foundational conflict over land and resources shaped the nation. She discusses historical archives, government complicity, and the path toward national truth-tel...
Fan Mail
Hello, Van Talks, Charles Parkner. My name is Anna and I'm messaging from the lands of the Wandery Roy people of the Kulin Nation. Thank you so much for your informative podcast and all the hard work that you and the crew do. It keeps me as a non-Aboriginal person enlightened, informed about the issues impacting the First Nations people who have a culture that I just am so proud of as a what we know as an Australian. Your podcast really helps me stop myself from living under a colonial rock of utter white privilege and ignorance. Thank you for this chart the chance to listen to the amazing people you interview and hearing about all the hard work that they're doing to try and make this country better.