On Let’s Talk this morning Karen speaks with Aunty Ivy Trevallion from the Torres Strait Islands, Aunty Ivy is the First Torres Strait Islander social worker having graduated from Queensland University in 1986 and the current chair of the Kupai Omasjer Working Party. Karen and Aunty Ivy talk about the  Queensland Labor promising to introduce new laws to recognise Torres Strait Islander families’ continued use of traditional adoption if re-elected. On the second half of the show Boe speaks with Wendy Brookman Senior Member Services Officer from NACCHO National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation about the NACCHO Members Conference and Annual General Meeting and the first NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth Health Conference: Future leaders of Tomorrow, Boe also speaks with Jeffery Amatto from Brothers 4 Recovery.

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