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
S05-E21: Highlighting culture through art without compromise
An acclaimed Victorian Aboriginal artist, Bayley Mifsud, discusses navigating major corporate collaborations while safeguarding cultural integrity. She highlights the vital importance of connection to Country, honouring Southeastern artistic id...
S05-E19: Youth taking leadership in the Victorian Treaty process
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,
S04-E18: First Nations economic participation sparks national debate and rethinking
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.
S05-E17: Gunditjmara Elder sets challenges to the Western Eurocentric bureaucracies
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.
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.
