Listen to the latest activities happening at Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA), when CEO Jimmy Cocking dropped into the Big Brekky Show at 8CCC studio.

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The Big Brekky team spoke again with Jessie Che, an internationally awarded lyricist from the Adelaide Hills in rural South Australia. ‘Sender’, is a song featuring honest & raw lyrics on the themes of betrayal & self-discovery.

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The Big Brekky Show spoke with multi-instrumentalist Kara Ciezki, who specialises in recreating mashups in the ways she blends two pre-recorded songs together where the vocal one is overlaid seamlessly over the instrumental track of another song - in this case Pony and Old Town Road.

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Graham 'Carbie' Gormley chats with the Big Brekky about his partnership with Keith Gorring and their latest release 'End of the Roads'; a song written about Graham's own experience of his life driving trucks, and its trials of tribulations. 

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Alice Springs Town Council Mayor, Matt Paterson, gives an update on the last council meeting on the Big Brekky Show.

Tune in to hear about the ASTC working collaboratively with police and other organisations, and welcoming a commitment from the federal government to supply more police; a federal government grant for integration of the CCTV network, more lighting and security upgrades; park upgrades; Pop Up Parks events; citizenship awards to open soon; an update on the National Aboriginal Art Gallery; an open day at the waste management facility this weekend; and more...

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Alice Cotton, in town from Darwin for the Desert Festival, is a queer indie-folk artist with a fresh new single 'I Feel Fine'. They are appearing live tonight at the festival's main hub, Olive Pink Botanic Gardens with support acts 'From the to Centre', MusicNT Desert Divas, and Western Aranda musician Casii Williams.

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Country singer songwriter, Sandy Louise, chats to the Big Brekky about her latest single 'Cry Out My Name'. The Newcastle based musician brings us a bush ballad which tells us the story of ‘Elizabeth Jesse Hickman’, A.K.A. ‘The Lady Bushranger’, a bushranger from the 1920s who established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.

Co-written with Cheryl Anderson, and produced and recorded by Bill Chambers, who features on the track, the song is part of Louise's upcoming album 'Live for Today', to be released in November.

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On the Big Brekky, CEO of Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC), Adrian Tomlinson, discusses the widespread killing of dingoes on pastoral leases in the NT.  Tomlinson reports broad-scale 1080 poisoning, as well as trapping and shooting is happening because of two misunderstandings; that most canines in the wild are domestic dogs or hybrids, not pure dingoes; and that poisoning dingoes prevents dingo attacks on calves - and that neither are true. Tune in to hear more about how dingoes support healthy arid ecosystems, are culturally important, and are not 'wild dogs'. The purity of the NT dingo population is of important national conservation value, as at least 90 to 99% of ‘wild dogs’ in the NT are purebred. Additionally, Tomlinson reports that lethal control of dingoes does not reduce cattle mortality in the NT. 

If this issue concerns you, you can email the Chief Minister and for dingoes to be protected on pastoral leases. This campaign is produced by Letters for the Environment Central Australia.

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The Big Brekky team were joined in the studio by concerned citizen, Sue Grant and Adrian Tomlinson, the CEO of Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC). They spoke about the river gums in Lhere Mparntwe (Todd River), which are under the protection of our town council. A vital part of our ecosystem here in Central Australia, they are currently vulnerable to the impacts of humans and introduced species, especially fire and buffel grass. 

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Katanga Junior dropped into the Big Brekky Show to talk about the launch of his latest single, 'Mparntwe Queen', produced with many talented locals including Kirra Voller, Darcy Davis, Billy Black, Laeticia, and Joey Klarenbeek.

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