Always was, always will be our stories

Always was, always will be our stories episodes:

• 08.09.2020

  EP11: 'Coming Out Blak', with Matika Little and Courtney Hagen

  This episode is sponsored by Bumble, a dating app that is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for its community of over 95 million users. Bumble has partnered with experts at a range of LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisations to provide a space where...

  
• 08.02.2020

  EP10: 'Breaking the cycle', Braidon Burns

  In interviews and general conversation, people often ask me who my role models are or who I look up to and while I struggle sometimes with answering that, because I’m lucky enough to find inspiration in so many moments with...

  
• 07.26.2020

  EP9: 'Giving back with Cultural Choice Association', Connor Watson

  In lieu of a sponsor this week, we have donated both the space and money associated to Cultural Choice Association to support their work in preventing Aboriginal youth suicide. This is an issue we’ve spoken about before on the podcast and...

  
• 07.19.2020

  EP8: 'Clothing to start a conversation', Sianna Catullo and Laura Thompson of Clothing the Gap

  On today’s episode I yarn with the dynamic duo behind one of the most recognisable Aboriginal owned and run clothing brands in the country - Clothing the Gap. Laura Thompson and Sianna Catullo are boss tiddas with incredible business minds...

  
• 07.12.2020

  EP7: 'The second ever Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in cricket', Ashleigh Gardner

  With all the disjointment of the ‘Australian’ identity, it’s hard to pin down anything that universally binds us or even something that a good majority of people who live across this continent today can really agree on or join in...

  
• 07.08.2020

  SPECIAL EPISODE: 'A Koori Doctor on getting in to medicine and facing COVID19' Dr. Erika Chapman-Burgess

  DISCLAIMER: Today's guest is medical professional but not an expert in infection control or an infectious diseases expert, so if anyone wants any further information regarding the COVID19 pandemic they should go to the local state govt webpage on COVID-19...

  
• 07.05.2020

  EP6: 'Defying the enemy within' Joe Williams

  TW: There are discussions of suicidal thoughts and mental health throughout this discussion that may be triggering for some. It is no secret that mental health and particularly depression and suicide disproportionately impacts our mob more than any other Australian group. Aboriginal...

  
• 06.29.2020

  EP5: 'Look in the mirror every day and know you're beautiful, black and deadly', Cissy Gore-Birch

  Cissy Gore-Birch, is a mother of 5, the Executive Manager of Aboriginal Engagement for Bush Heritage Australia and such a positive, loving and passionate leader in her community who is forever fighting for the respect and protection of land, the...

  
• 06.24.2020

  SPECIAL EPISODE: 'The Bowraville Murders', Allan Clarke

  In this very special episode of Always Was, Always Will be our stories, I sit down with Gomeroi and Muruwari filmmaker and journalist, Allan Clarke to discuss his new project, 'The Bowraville Murders.' This documentary investigates one of Australia’s worst unsolved...

  
• 06.21.2020

  EP4: ‘Never forget we were the first scientists’ Deadly Science and Corey Tutt.

  If I asked you to imagine a $50 Australian note in your hands, what would you see? Firstly, you'd probably describe its yellow colour, then perhaps, the face of a white-haired, smirking man. Do you know this man's name? Do you...

  
• 06.14.2020

  EP3: 'The surprising history of Aboriginal people and the Debutante Ball', Nakkiah Lui & Miranda Tapsell

  When I say ‘debutante ball’ what comes to mind for you? A bunch of teenage girls, giggling, buzzing with nerves and excitement, dressed in flowing gowns, off to a flash venue, for the night of their lives, ready to debut...

  
• 06.07.2020

  EP2: 'Autism is not the end of the world, it's the start of a different journey', Tanika Davis

  Picture this, in the past 18 months you’ve had some of the biggest milestones of your life so far - you had your first child, a beautiful little boy, married your partner and graduated from university. It’s been some of...

  
• 05.31.2020

  EP1: 'Foster kid to CEO', Isaiah Dawe

  This is the first ever episode of Always Was Always Will Be Our Stories, in today’s chat Marlee Silva sits down with Butchella and Gawara man Isaiah Dawe. Like thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in Australia today, Isaiah...

  
• 05.12.2020

  Always Was, Always Will Be Our Stories - S1 Trailer

  Yaama, I’m Marlee Silva, a Gamilaroi and Dunghutti writer and the Co-Founder of Tiddas 4 Tiddas. In these frightening and uncertain times, it feels as though there’s little left in life that has gone unchanged. Coming from the oldest, continuous surviving...