On Country

For this episode, I’ve taken a bit of a side track but a very important one. My guests are Ron Finkel AO and Dr Jamal Rifi AM of Project Rozana, an Australian founded, international NGO that delivers on ground emergency and critical health care to Palestinians, particularly children, in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza but crucially, through joint initiatives between Israelis an

My guest this week is Professor Sharon Sullivan AO. At 80 years old, Professor Sullivan, remains an intellectual firebrand. She continues to bring energy and commitment to not only protecting Australia’s cultural landscapes but educating the broader global public of their enormous cultural value. Professor Sullivan, has had a distinguished career in cultural heritage management

Denis Rose is a highly respected Gunditjmara man. As far as we know, he was the first Indigenous person ever employed as a a National Park Ranger. Over a lifelong career, he has played a catalytic role in developing the Indigenous Protected Area Program and continues to work, to both manage country and improve the lives of all Indigenous people. We discuss his early life, the ups a

In this first episode, I speak with Dermot Smyth, a cultural ecologist who helped establish the first, independent, Indigenous ranger program on Palm Island, Queensland in 1983. We discuss the challenges First Nations people faced and the evolution of both the Indigenous ranger and Indigenous protected area programs. From its humble beginnings, to a national success story, the prog