Radio interview with Patrick Quinn for his weekly show "Tales from The High Stool" in Sydney on 2RRR, 20 September 2022.

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A poem inspired by the "Uluru Statement from the Heart", issued to our nation by the First Peoples of this land in May 2017. Despite the devastating result of the 2023 Voice referendum, our country still needs to hear our First Peoples and heal this land.
Recited here on 92.9 River FM, Lismore, Wed 13 September 2023. Recording courtesy of Joy Davison-Lee.

It's Time For Us To Hear

A allegory for humanity's trashing of its home and inheritance.

7 One Wild Night

A call to challenge the discrimination faced by the First Peoples of this land.

6 What If It Was You

"There's got to be a better way" were the words of Steve Kilburn, former worker at the Australian-funded Manus Island detention centre in PNG. He was interviewed for an ABC Four Corners investigation into the riots of Monday 17 February 2014, when asylum seeker Reza Barati  was murdered by local centre staff. A witness to the riots, Steve was visibly traumatised and, like many other Australians, disgusted by our nation's treatment of people seeking our protection.

5 There's Got To Be A Better Way

A parody of "The Little Aussie Battler", a term popularised by former "Liberal" Prime Minister John Howard referring the struggling upper/middle class voters of Australia.

4 The Little Aussie Battler

In 2017 the words "You talk we die" were emblazoned on an Abbotsford laneway mural in Melbourne, along with the names of 34 people who died of overdoses in the area in the past year. Under intense community and political pressure the Victorian government finally agreed, after years of resistance, to a trial of a medically supervised injecting centre. The evidence has long been clear - these centres save lives.

3 While You Talk We Die

A call for us as Australians to learn the lessons from our long history of fighting and dying in someone else's wars.

2 Someone Else's Wars

A song inspired by the "Uluru Statement from the Heart", issued to our nation by the First Peoples of this land in May 2017.

1 It's Time For Us To Hear

A powerful voice for a better Australia

"A good song reminds us what we're fighting for"
- Pete Seeger

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