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-E25: New study highlights connection between harmful misinformation and online hate targeting Mob
Groundbreaking research reveals a tenfold rise in online hate targeting First Nations people. Discover how digital algorithms fuel racism against Mob and what must be done to protect our community.
S05:E24 - Reconciliation Action Plans at a crossroads: Jason Mifsud on the future of RAPs
Are Reconciliation Action Plans still delivering for Mob? Eastern Maar leader Jason Mifsud explores why organisations must shift from symbolic gestures to structural accountability, embedded governance, and genuine self-determination.
S05-E23: "Systems aren't broken, they're working by design": Prof. Emma-Jaye Gavin on the future of truth-telling
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.
