2023 Reflections: A tribute to First Nations communities

Wednesday Breakfast

3CR Breakfast Wednesday 27th December 2023 As we farewell 2023, we reflect on the Referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament and the future of Australia. Throughout this episode you will hear a selection of music by First Nations artists, the voices of Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer Teela Reid and distinguished historian and Monash University Indigenous Studies Centre academic Professor Lynette Russell. Teela Reid is the University of Sydney's inaugural First Nation’s Practitioner-in-Residence. She spoke alongside Noel Pearson at the inaugural 'Voices on the Voice' Sydney Ideas event at the University of Sydney on 22nd May 2023. Broadcast permission courtesy of University of Sydney. Professor Lynette Russell is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate based at Monash University’s Indigenous Studies Centre. Her illustrious career spans three decades, covering 16th to 20th century Australian history. She was an active promoter of the Voice to Parliament and co-authored a book with Melissa Castan called Time to Listen- An Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Professor Russell’s Aboriginal ancestors were born on the lands of the Wotjobaluk people in Western Victoria, and her British descendants were transported to Australia as convicts. Claudia spoke to Professor Russell following a week’s silence after the Referendum on a Voice to Parliament. (First broadcast 3CR Breakfast 25/10/23) Music Why / Kutcha Edwards, 2008 Rain / Monica Weightman, 1998 Little Voice / Charcoal Club, 2005 Women’s Business / Ruby Hunter, 1994 Keep the Fires Burning / Patricia Clarke, 2006 Are you from TI? / The Mills Sisters, 1993 Koorie Time / Emma Donovan, 2010 September Song / Leah Flanaghan, 2010 Fitzroy Crossing / Warumpi Band, 1985 Goddess Love / Dan Sultan, 2009 Cannot Buy My Soul / Archie Roach, 2007 Bicentennial Blues / Archie Roach / 1988, 2009 Somewhere over the Rainbow / Shellie Morris and Stephen Pigram, 2006 3CR Breakfast acknowledges First Nations communities around Australia and that sovereignty was never ceded and a treaty never signed. We pay respects to elders, past and present, and acknowledge the resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian community.