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.
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The sound of regional Australia. Daily news from the ABC's unmatched network of regional reporters hosted by Sinéad Mangan.
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S03-E07: Talking Treaty - Reconciliation Victoria turns the table on Charles Pakana from Victorian Aboriginal News
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Send us a text In a bit of a change, it's Charles' turn to be interviewed about Treaty as he is joined by Reconciliation Victoria's Communications lead, Anna Van Vliet. They explore various questions that have come in to Rec Vic from members of its 30+ local reconciliation group network and shed truth where so much misinformation is rife.…
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Victorian flood victim fortifies her bush home with a bulletproof, blast-proof military barrier
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Fed up with the threat of floods, Victorian resident Tuesday Browell is thought to be the first private Australian resident to import war-zone technology to protect her home.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has secured a promise from China's Premier Li Qiang to lift a ban on Australian rock lobsters by the end of the year.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Send us a text In a move many describe as primarily politically motivated, the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) has extended a dingo UNprotection order across areas of Victoria through to 2028. Traditional Owner groups, environmentalists and animal welfare groups are seeking to have the government rescind the o…
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Outback tourism operators are feeling the squeeze as soaring costs and increasing global competition cut into visitor numbers.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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'Proud of my boys': Project to seal the Tanami exceeds Indigenous employment targets and strengthens outback road links
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Sealing the Tanami Road is one of northern WA's biggest projects and local Indigenous people say the jobs being created are life-changing.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In the first visit by Chinese delegates since trade tariffs were lifted in April, West Australian wineries are showcasing their premium wines to big buyers in the hopes of landing lucrative contracts.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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S03-E08: We visit Budj Bim on Gunditjmara Country and learn more about the story behind this cultural site
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Send us a text Sitting at Tae Rak on Gunditjmara Country in the state's South-West, VAN's Charles Pakana catches up with the Budj Bim General Manager Joseph Saunders, discussing the story behind the place.由Victorian Aboriginal News
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Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A delayed runway extension at the East Kimberley Regional Airport is limiting tourists' access to the region, according to operators. They are calling for the runway to be upgraded as soon as possible to boost visitor numbers.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Footy boots are optional on the red dirt field in Warnan. The local football grand final is kicking off in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands this weekend.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Western Australia's road fatalities are at their worst in a decade, and the states trucking industry wants to be part of the solution.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Concern the northern drug trade could be linked to a string of disappearances of young Aboriginal men
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A surge in drug-related violence in northern Western Australia is being blamed for the mysterious disappearances of young Aboriginal men. Their distraught families have joined community leaders to campaign for more to be done to find out what happened to them.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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With a four-year waitlist for social housing, this Kimberley mother-of-three is calling for better support
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A Kimberley mother of three young girls is now homeless after escaping domestic violence, and she's calling for more housing and support in the region.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A group who call themselves 'The Keepers of the Outback Graves' help to maintain bush graves and fill in gaps in south-west Queensland's history, and a 16-year-old boy spends his school holidays joining them.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Kimberley locals want to know how their local abattoir closed its doors, owing more than $103 million
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An ABC investigation uncovered a dumping yard of cattle carcasses at a Kimberley abattoir. It has now closed its doors, owing more than $103 million, and locals want to know how it happened.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Concerns for black swan populations around Australia, if a new strain of avian influenza reaches our shores
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Australian scientists are warning of mass mortality events in native birds, if a new strain of avian influenza reaches the country. The iconic black swan has been found to be particularly susceptible.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A glimmer of hope for regional communities, with young people signing up to volunteer and pursue their passions
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Volunteers are the lifeblood of regional communities but over the past 20 years there has been a steep decline in volunteers. Now, there is a glimmer of hope that young people will join groups to pursue their passions.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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S03-E06: "Treaty". A fairly generic word that can either be weaponised or seen as an amazing opportunity
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Send us a text A simple interview with Constitutional law expert Professor Cheryl Saunders about the legal meaning of "treaty" evolves to embrace a broad range of important related matters.由Victorian Aboriginal News
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Waiting for up to 30 years, 25 people to a home, families in regional communities plead for action
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Joanne Fourmile has been waiting for housing for eight years, in the meantime she's raised children and been treated for breast cancer while sleeping on a mattress on the floor of her cousin's living room.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A small WA seaside town was forced to switch off gas, becoming a 'prototype' for the green energy transition
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When a town in Australia's South West was forced to switch off gas, residents were given a choice: use bottled gas or electrify. Now, electricity is providing more energy for Esperance than ever before and most of it is coming from renewable sources.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Roebourne residents fear extreme summer will put elders' health at risk after record-breaking winter heat
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Last month the town recorded its hottest ever winter day of 40.2C.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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King Island Dairy shutdown looms for workers considering their futures on the Bass Strait island
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King Island Dairy is the largest single employers on the Bass Strait island, but the factory and associated cheese brand is set to be closed next year.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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After losing the region's only general practitioner earlier this year, the Shire of Gnowangerup will now have to spend $350,000 a year to ensure another GP can service its 1,200 residents.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Children in regional areas are waiting for months in pain and in some cases travelling thousands of kilometres to access urgent dental care as fewer private hospitals offer the procedures and public waitlists blow out.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Send us a text OK, so it may seem a bit of a dry subject - philanthropy - but when you start to explore how, through its decolonisation, it can deliver major benefits to the broader community, the lightbulbs start to flicker on in our minds. We speak about this with the CEO of Woor Dungin, Yuin man, Shaun Middlebrook…
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Australian wildlife-smuggling trade laid bare in first detailed study tracking global animal sales
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A new study reveals the scale of Australia wildlife being smuggled overseas, with dozens of species recorded for the first time. But government authorities insist its crackdown is working.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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'Can't just hope for the best': Hundreds of parents make 'phone pledge' to keep kids off social media
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United by fear of the harms of social media, and a shared nostalgia for a screen-free childhood, hundreds of parents in regional Victoria have shown interest in keeping smartphones out of their kids' hands for as long as they can.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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While a proposed ban on live sheep exports sparked the rally, farmers have vented their anger over a range of decisions the federal government from water buy-backs in the Murray Darling Basin to biosecurity funding.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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S03-E04: Sky News' Peta Credlin and Senator Jacinta Price mislead on Treaty event and Victorian Treaty
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Send us a text Once again Sky News commentator Peta Credlin and the Federal Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Jacinta Price, have been proven wrong in commentary. This time, it's all about Victorian Treaty and a specific community education event.由Victorian Aboriginal News
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Victorian dairy community warns national food security at risk as foreign timber giants snap up farms
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South West Victorian residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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As the cost-of-living crisis bites hard, consider the additional costs associated with living on a remote island.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Send us a text Throughout 2023 and 2024, two research leads at the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice undertook an innovative project to build reconciliation capabilities, strengths and leadership with the Victorian multicultural communities. In this episode I speak with both of them, Greek-born Maria and Sri Lankan-born Shankar,…
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"It's really going to knock the island around." 120 year-old iconic dairy brand to end after being unable to find a buyer.
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Dairy giant Saputo will shut its iconic King Island Dairy in the middle of next year and discontinue its more than 120-year-old brand, after being unable to find a buyer.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A publican in north-east Victoria is questioning an understanding local councils have with businesses that results in poker machines effectively being banned.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly sparking house fires and changing the dynamic of the blazes that firefighters face.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In regional and rural areas with small populations, there is a high chance the first person on the scene of a fatal crash could know the people or person involved. Now, there are calls for more mental health support for first responders dealing with road accident trauma.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Send us a text In this incredibly candid interview, VAN’s Charles Pakana talks with local Ballarat elder, Noongar man Uncle Al Harris, to discuss the state of reconciliation within the Victorian regional city of Ballarat. One of the major calls is for a local truth-telling initiative.由Victorian Aboriginal News
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After four years of increasingly dry winters in WA, beekeepers are warning of diminished hives, and biodiversity loss as fewer flowers bloom and pollen dries up.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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"You just never forget that the knock at the door" Parents speak out as domestic violence plagues small towns
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In small country communities, everyone knows everyone, but this makes escaping domestic violence much more complicated. In towns like Longreach, where there is hardly any crime, the problem is still very much behind close doors.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Indonesian repeat illegal fishing offenders jailed in Darwin amid a surge in overseas boats. Authorities says they will continue hold public information campaigns in Indonesia to inform communities about the risks of illegal fishing.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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An almost year-long legal stoush between a small South Australian council and Western Australia's tourism body over a trademark request has come to an end after the application was officially abandoned earlier this month.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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S03-E01: Time closing in on community's dispute window regarding the Assembly and a statewide Treaty
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Send us a text On the 17th of September this year, the opportunity closes for the lodgement of either a comment or dispute regarding the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria meeting minimum standards to negotiate a statewide treaty. To gain a greater understanding of the process and implications, we speak with Treaty Authority member, Yorta Yorta ma…
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In response to a string of dingo attacks on children, the Fraser Coast mayor is calling for families with children under 12 to be restricted to fenced-in zones on K'Gari.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Queensland Teachers' Union wants incentives like cheaper rent and wiping HECS debt to be expanded to help deal with crippling teacher shortages in regional schools.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A class action has been filed for Indigenous Australians who have waited years for their public housing to be repaired
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A class action has been filed against the West Australian government on behalf of thousands of tenants living in substandard public housing in remote Aboriginal communities.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Send us a text During a recent visit to Coranderrk, VAN’s Charles Pakana caught up for a yarn about the Woi-wurrung language with advocate, speaker and teacher Brooke Wandin. Without any doubt, the Woi-wurrung language, like other First Nations languages across Australia is having new life breathed into it.…
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An attempt to stop the aerial shooting of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park has been dismissed in the NSW Supreme Court.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Coal-fired power plants are retiring in Victoria, and workers are considering their options. But as the offshore wind industry is developing in Gippsland, some coal workers are showing an interest in retraining in renewables.由Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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With feed running out and prices sky rocketing, Tasmanian farmers are struggling with the impact of dry conditions. Some say they have no choice but to shoot their animals.ng network with more than 500 electric vehicle chargers is almost complete, leaving only a few gaps of more than 200 kilometres between towns with top-up points outside of Adelai…
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