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 against the Australian Government with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, plus an overview of the COP26 Climate Change summit currently being held in Scotland.

Nick has a yarn with Amelia Telford, the national director at the Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network, about why Seed raised more than $20K to send a delegate over to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow. Nick wraps up the episode with a yarn with Sports editor Darren Moncrieff about the implications climate change will have on sport now and into the future.

The Koori Mail News podcast is a Koori Mail production.

The music in this podcast is ‘My Island Home’ by Christine Anu.

Edition 763 of the Koori Mail Newspaper is ON SALE NOW!

Subscribe to the Koori Mail Newspaper here: www.koorimail.com

Podcast enquiries: podcast@koorimail.com

Donate to the SEED Indigenous Youth Climate Network: www.seedmob.org.au/donate

TWITTER:
twitter.com/koorimailnews
@koorimailnews

FACEBOOK:
facebook.com/koorimail/
@koorimail

INSTAGRAM:
instagram.com/koorimailnewspaper/

If this podcast raises any issues for you please contact the National Indigenous Critical Response Service on 1800 805 801 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

At the Koori Mail, we acknowledge and pay our respects to the Bundjalung Nation, and the lands of the Widjabul Wiabul people upon which our offices sit, and to all Ancestors and Elders.

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND