Koori Mail News

In this episode of Koori Mail News, Ngunawal journalist Nick Paton has a yarn with Palawa woman Jillian Mundy about calls to Abolish Australia Day. Nick yarns with Jillian about her recent article in the Koori Mail Newspaper about an online Invasion Day rally that Jillian attended in person. Organised and hosted by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and held on Lutruwita Country in Ta

Jingi Walla (welcome) to the first episode of Koori Mail News for 2022! In this episode Nick Paton has a yarn with Koori Mail’s Social Media Coordinator, Bundjalung Gangalu woman Amarina Toby, about some of the clever ways January 26 events were moved online this year due to covid restrictions. Amarina and Nick yarn with Gumbaynggirr Bundjalung Gamilaraay man Nathan Brennan, chie

In this final episode of Koori Mail News (formerly The BLAKroom podcast) for 2021, your host Nick Paton yarns with pop music sensation Isaiah Firebrace about his petition on change.org which has more than 293 thousand signatures so far. Nick talks to Bundjalung woman Kylie Caldwell, and Gamilaraay woman Sophie May about their involvement with the Art on Bundjalung Market coming up

In this episode of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your host Nick Paton raises the question: how are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people using their voice to protest, or to get an important message across on a particular issue? Nick yarns with the Koori Mail’s Journalist and photographer, Palawa woman, Jillian Mundy and Tasmanian artist Julie Gough

In episode 8 of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your host Nick Paton yarns with the Koori Mail’s senior Journalist Darren Coyne about a group of Traditional Owners from Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) Islands who are suing the Australian government. Nick and Darren also yarn about a seperate group Traditional Owners from Zenadth Kes who have made a complaint aga

In episode 8 of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your host Kirk Page yarns with grass roots campaigner Regina Moran and Senior Journalist Darren Coyne on the important work that the Stop Black Deaths in Custody Australia website is doing for the community, raising awareness and raising funds for the cause through sales of bold designed T shirts. Dalisa Pigram y

In this episode of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your host Nick Paton has a yarn with Gomeroi man Ray Kelly, one of Australia’s most renowned exercise Physiologists. Nick talks to Ray about his involvement in a new 3-part TV series: Australia’s Health Revolution with Dr Michael Mosely, which airs on SBS on Wednesday October 13 at 730pm (DST). With more t

In this extended episode of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your host Nick Paton has a yarn with Nyamal woman Dr Tracy Westerman about why she is building an army of Indigenous Psychologists in Australia. Nick and the Koori Mail’s sports editor Darren Moncrieff yarn about the Indigenous Marathon Project’s Midnight Marathon coming up in October, and Nick ta

In this episode of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your hosts Kirk Page and Nick Paton yarn about the #VaxTheNation campaign and some of the other amazing ways Aboriginal communities are helping other Aboriginal communities deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Kirk & Nick yarn with senior journalist Darren Coyne about the covid crisis unfolding for mob in the N

In this episode of Koori Mail News (formerly the BLAKroom news podcast), your hosts Nick Paton and Kirk Page yarn about how they are keeping their mental health in check during the covid lock-down in Regional NSW. Senior Journalist Darren Coyne yarns with Nick & Kirk about the covid crisis unfolding in Aboriginal communities in Western NSW, and the good news about an historic payou