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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim attended the Pre-Orientation Program (POP Week) hosted by The Oodgeroo Unit at QUT; POP Week is designed to familiarise commencing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island students with University life. On the program, I yarn with Kat Dorante, Aunty Kerry Charlton and Ella Budge.
To hear information about QUT Students head to Let’s Talk – QUT Pre-Orientation Program Week Podcast.

Leilani Munns

Alice Currie

Boe Spearim and Aunty Kerry Charlton
QUT Pre-Orientation Program (POP week) hosted by The Oodgeroo Unit at Queensland University of Technology Interviews.
2020-02-11 Boe interviews Uncle Cheg (Elder)
2020-02-11 Boe interviews Tristian Mc Coy (QUT Student)
2020-02-11 Boe interviews Tuscany Abala (QUT Student)
2020-02-11 Lizzie interviews Hayden Bartlett (QUT Student Ambassador)
2020-02-11 Lizzie interviews Katalin Csatlos (QUT Projects and Events Support Officer)
2020-02-11 Lizzie interviews Leilani Munns (QUT Student Ambassador)
2020-02-11 Lizzie interviews Jed Fraser (QUT Masters Student)
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim and Alice Currie talk about Pre-Orientation Program (POP week) hosted by The Oodgeroo Unit at Queensland University of Technology. Also on the program, Boe plays interviews he and Lizzie Orley recorded last year from the QUT Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Pre-Graduation Ceremony Dinner for Indigenous students graduating.


Boe Spearim and Jed Fraser

Bianca Hunt

Kein Blackman

Alice Currie and Lizzie Orley

Bianca Hunt and Alice Currie
QUT Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Pre-Graduation Ceremony Interviews
04/12/2019 Alice Currie (QUT Graduate) and Tina Currie (Mother)
04/12/2019 Lizzie interviews Kathryn Dorante (QUT Student)
04/12/2019 Lizzie interviews Laura Christie (QUT Graduate)
04/12/2019 Boe interviews Jed Fraser (QUT Student)
04/12/2019 Boe and Lizzie interview Kein Blackman (QUT Graduate)
04/12/2019 Boe interviews Julie Cook (Director of Oodgeroo Unit at QUT)
04/12/2019 Lizzie interviews Seth Willie (Learning Support Officer at Ooderoo Unit, QUT)
04/12/2019 Boe and Lizzie interviews Bianca Hunt (Indigenous Engagement and Partnerships Coordinator at SBS)
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim and Lizzie Orley chat about The Original 100 they play some of the top 10 and chat about some of the meanings behind The Original 100 playlist, they also remind the listeners that The Original 100 is now up on the 989fm Spotify account.
We hope you enjoy The Original 100 2020 playlist.
Please note not all 100 songs are available on this Spotify as they have not been uploaded to the platform by the said artist.
Click here to listen on our Spotify playlist and much much more.
If you would like to know more about The Original 100 head to The Original 100 Always Was Always Will Be article.
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All the way from Inala to West End the Wild Black Women yarn today everything from Sport, Welcome to Country, Blak Humour and Blak Conferencing. Check it out, people!
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At 989FM we’ve always known of the importance of First Nations voices to be heard on radio, that’s why at the end of 2017 we decided to create The Original 100 a playlist to be played on the 26th of January the playlist encompasses a 100 song from Aboriginal & Torres Striate Islander people from around the continent that speaks of our struggles and triumphs.
Interviews on the day
Jack Latimore: Dan speaks with NITV’s Jack Latimore around Invasion Day.
Chris Crebbin: Dan caught up with Chris Crebbin who was a part of the Sunrise Ceremony for NITV.
Kelly Kemp: Kelly Kemp from My Murri Kitchen stopped by with Dan & Clay during the Original 100 broadcast to talk about the upcoming My Murri Kitchen radio show.
Jhindu Lawrie: Jhindu Lawrie kicked off with Dan & Clay for the Original 100 with a deadly yarn around Invasion Day and a live song.
If you would like to know more about The Original 100 head to the following stories:
Let’s Talk – Boe and Lizzie chat about the Top 10 songs from The Original 100 Countdown
The Original 100 “Always Was Always Will Be” 2020
Let’s Talk – Dan Rennie, Clay Cassar-Daley & Lizzie Orley
We hope you enjoy The Original 100 2020 playlist.
Please note not all 100 songs are available on this Spotify as they have not been uploaded to the platform by the said artist.
Click here to listen on our Spotify playlist and much much more.
Full list of songs that made it to 2020 – Original 100
# |
Song title |
Artist |
| 1 | Treaty | Yothu Yindi |
| 2 | My Island Home | Warumpi Band |
| 3 | Anthem | Tiddas |
| 4 | Coz I’m Free | Christine Anu |
| 5 | Took The Children Away | Archie Roach |
| 6 | Black Boy | Coloured Stone |
| 7 | Better in Blak | Thelma Plum |
| 8 | Blackfella Whitefella | Warumpi Band |
| 9 | Sunshine on A Rainy Day | Christine Anu |
| 10 | January 26th | A.B. Original ft Dan Sultan |
| 11 | Native Tongue | Mojo Juju |
| 12 | From little things big things grow | Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody |
| 13 | Black Smoke | Emily Wurramara |
| 14 | Freedom Ride | Troy Cassar-Daley ft Paul Kelly |
| 15 | Fight | Loren Ryan |
| 16 | Dumb Things | A.B Original ft Paul Kelly |
| 17 | Homecoming Queen | Thelma Plum |
| 18 | My Sister | Tiddas |
| 19 | Koori Rose | Roger Knox |
| 20 | Inanay | Tiddas |
| 21 | The Children Came Back | Briggs, Gurrumul Yunupingu and Dewayne Everettsmith |
| 22 | Blak Woman | Mauiral Spearim |
| 23 | Tribal Voice | Yothu Yindi |
| 24 | Charcoal Lane | Archie Roach |
| 25 | Dream Out Loud | Troy Cassar-Daley |
| 26 | How Much Does Your Love Cost? | Thelma Plum |
| 27 | Beautiful Child | Archie Roach |
| 28 | Shadows on the Hill | Troy Cassar-Daley |
| 29 | Down City Streets | Archie Roach |
| 30 | Black Woman | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks |
| 31 | Djapana | Yothu Yindi |
| 32 | Hey Love | Emily Wurramara |
| 33 | Dancing In The Moonlight | Coloured Stone |
| 34 | Brisbane Blacks | Mop & the Dropouts |
| 35 | Yorta Yorta Man | Jimmy Little |
| 36 | Black Magic – | Baker Boy ft. Dallas Woods |
| 37 | Natural Woman | Kaiit |
| 38 | Thou Shalt Not Steal | Kev Carmody |
| 39 | The Language Song | Troy Cassar-Daley |
| 40 | Brown Skin Baby (They Take Him Away) | Bob Randall |
| 41 | OG Luv Kush p.2 | Kaiit |
| 42 | We Have Survived | No Fixed Address |
| 43 | Tiddas | Tiddas |
| 44 | Going Home | Stiff Gins |
| 45 | Ngurra (Rain Song) | Kardajala Kirridarra |
| 46 | Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind) | Gurrumul Yunupingu |
| 47 | Drowning | Miiesha |
| 48 | Kimberley Calling | Dan Sultan |
| 49 | World Turning | Yothu Yindi |
| 50 | Bapa | Gurrumul Yunupingu |
| 51 | I Feel Better But I Don’t Feel Good | Alice Skye |
| 52 | Charcoal Pieces | Maggie Walsh |
| 53 | Koori Woman | Marlene Cummins |
| 54 | Drover | Dan Sultan |
| 55 | Proud | Jason Owen & Christine Anu |
| 56 | Cannot Buy My Soul | Kev Carmody |
| 57 | Friends with Feelings | Alice Skye |
| 58 | Diamonds On The Water | Stiff Gins |
| 59 | Murri Man | Roger Knox |
| 60 | River Song | Stiff Gins |
| 61 | Stompin Ground | Warumpi Band |
| 62 | ICU | A. B. Original ft Thelma Plum |
| 63 | From The Bush | Warumpi Band |
| 64 | You Are The Mountains | Alice Skye |
| 65 | Mission Ration Blues | Archie Roach |
| 66 | Blackfellas | Local Knowledge |
| 67 | Mabo | Yothu Yindi |
| 68 | Bran Nue Dae | Kuckles |
| 69 | Identity | Rochelle Pitt |
| 70 | My Country | Katrina Connelly |
| 71 | Streets Of Tamworth | Roger Knox |
| 72 | By Your Side | Tiddas |
| 73 | John Pat | Archie Roach & Paul Kelly |
| 74 | Gurtha (Fire) | Dhapanbal Yunupingu ft Shellie Morris |
| 75 | In Control | Baker Boy |
| 76 | No More Boomerang | Les Collins |
| 77 | Stolen Children | Kerrianne Cox |
| 78 | Paint this Land | Busby Marou |
| 79 | Swept Away | Shellie Morris |
| 80 | Rosyln | Dan Sultan |
| 81 | Lover Evermore | Sue Ray |
| 82 | All Alone | Shellie Morris |
| 83 | Walanbaa | Mitch Tambo |
| 84 | Maralitja | Dhapanbal Yunupingu |
| 85 | Aboriginal Woman | Mixed Relations and Bart Willoughby |
| 86 | Me and My Guitar | Bronwyn Stuart |
| 87 | Breadline | Warumpi Band |
| 88 | Please Don’t Forget Your Culture | Melanie Singleton |
| 89 | Struggle | Black Rock Band |
| 90 | When Will I Be Paid? | Marlene Cummins |
| 91 | Changing Times | Tiddas |
| 92 | Our Home Our Land | Black Arm Band |
| 93 | Yil Lul | Joe Geia |
| 94 | Yandool | Stiff Gins |
| 95 | Gurindji Blues | Galarrwuy Yunupingu |
| 96 | Hold it Together | Dan Sultan |
| 97 | Ointment | Shellie Morris |
| 98 | Warrior In Chains | Roger Knox |
| 99 | State of The Art | Tia Gostelow |
| 100 | Indigenous Land | DRMNGNOW |
Let’s Talk – Radical Love
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim speaks with Madi Chan from FERN Collective and Bindimu Currie from Red Belly. And we yarn about Radical Love an event they are both collaborating on to create a safe space from Aboriginal & Torres Staite Islander People, People of colour and the LGBQTI community. There will be live music art exhibition and a panel discussion on Saturday the 8th of February 2020.
Event details: RedBelly X FERN Collective Presents: Radical Love
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Let’s Talk – First Nations Media
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim speaks with Adam Evens from NIRS & Douglas Smith from NITV we yarn about Invasion Day and what stories are making headlines in First Nations media.
Caption for the photo: Dougals Smith from NITV, Boe Spearim and Adam Evens from NIRS
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Let’s Talk – Media and political narratives around Aboriginal peoples’ public protest actions.
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim speaks with Priya Kunjan PhD candidate of political science from the University of Melbourne, Priya’s PhD looks at the use of policing at and circulation of media and political narratives around Aboriginal peoples’ public protest actions focusing on the issue of sovereignty.
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Wild Black Women – Back in 2020!
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Never fear #wildblackwomen are here! Blacker & wilder than ever. Check out Angelina & Chelsea’s 1st Ep of 2020 with sista Karen.
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In this episode of Let’s Talk, Boe Spearim speaks with Amy Thunig host of a new First Nations podcast called Blacademia a podcast of conversations with First People academics, Amy was also one of the main organisers for the Invasion Day 2020 rally in Newcastle.
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