Phillipa McDermott

Phillipa McDermott from Gadigal Information Service talks about the importance of Koori Radio in catering for and representing the interests of Koori people in Sydney.

Phillipa McDermott:


"As part of our news and current affairs information and also looking at our people in our community, we try to provide a service that bests explains the current situation: whether it's political, environmental, economic, or what have you, whatever the debate of the day is, through our radio service, and we try to provide that in a plain English sort of sense, whether the - and also including debates about native title, UN treaties, or whatever the issue is. And basically, you know, those sorts of issues, of course, are totally relevant to our Aboriginal people, and non-Aboriginal people. But are only heard from a non-indigenous perspective. So there again in a contemporary form, we try to analyse the situation, and we get that analysis from our senior sort of broadcasters and from other areas, our people from universities, and what have you, to analyse those situations, and put down what the real issues are for Aboriginal people. And you know, that might - that usually is the eroding away of our rights, in one form or another. And for Aboriginal people in our community in Sydney, in the urban community, to understand how important it is for us to keep fighting, to still fight on for those rights. Because they are not enshrined in any sort of legal document, and therefore they can be taken away from us at the drop of a hat, which is what, you know, previous, and this government, have been trying to do."

 

 

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