In this episode Lidia yarns with Nyungar man, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes and long time First Nations health activist (and her mum), Gunnaikurnai woman Marjorie Thorpe about the importance of holistic and First Nations led health services as well as healing spaces.

Professor Ted Wilkes is a Nyungar man and has spent most of his life working in public health for better First Nations health outcomes. Professor Wilkes has engaged at many forums and committees at the state, national, and international level, and is involved in many research initiatives dealing with alcohol and drugs in Indigenous Australia.

Marjorie Thorpe is a Gunnaikurnai woman and daughter of one of the founders of Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in 1973. Marjorie was a co-commissioner on the Bringing them Home stolen generations inquiry. More recently, Marjorie has campaigned to save the Grandmother trees on Tjapurong.


LEARN: Read Professor Chelsea Watego's Book "Another Day in The Colony"

DONATE: To Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS)

These recordings took place on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.


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Note: These episodes were recorded while Senator Thorpe was a member of the Greens. She now sits of the crossbench as a Independent Senator representing the Blak Sovereign Movement