The Diaspora

Akashika Mohla has a yarn with Debbie Kilroy OAM, CEO & Founder of Internationally acclaimed Sisters Inside Inc . Debbie's journey from another side of law & order to a Criminal lawyer & prisoner advocate to now a Barrister in progress, with a huge mission to change the life of women in prison. A fascinating woman on a huge mission. A troubled teenage, to poverty to violence and a trauma of lifetime - Debbie's compelling story is of courage, resilience and returning to reform for her sisters inside.

She talks about her life, the #Freeher movement and 'sinking titanic' in the prison system.

Debbie's book - Kilroy as here by Kris Olsson is available on Amazon, QBD books store in Australia.

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Deepti Sachdeva talks with Navdeep Singh - a diverse local Australian voice of people of the vibrant & multicultural electorate Jordan, in Queensland. As Navdeep says, he is a person with second hand English skills but first-hand life experiences in Australia.

As a 5% minority in the Australian Politics - Navdeep brings in a unique perspective beyond accents, & ethnicity.

With more than 300 ancestries in the harmonious multicultural Australia today, while there is much truth to that statement considering all of Australia's successes made in the context of its diverse population, this confident, veneer also disguises an inconvenient truth.

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Does your sense of 'self' come from what you eat? No matter who you are and where you are from - something that connects us all irrespective of our backgrounds, beliefs and norms is 'food'. In this episode we speak to Bhavna - a curator of food experiences and founder of Modern Desi co. What started out as a blog of home cooked recipes, Modern Desi co is on a mission to connect people and their culture's through a shared love and appreciation of flavoursome food, made from a combination of past narratives and stories of new experiences.

International politics is a serious business. But, HE Barry O'Farrell AO , Australian envoy to India - High Commissioner of Australia in India, shares all things diplomacy, life, well being, priorities, the liaisons and diaspora in the COVID times, In this episode we are Spinning Yarns with HE Barry O'Farrell AO, have a listen into a Day in the life of Barry from 🇭🇲 in India. Unplugged & unfiltered, an organic full of positivism and all things India.

Talking Australia's COVID impact on changed routines, evolving relationships - some with ourselves, work, how we now connect to communicate, parenting and stuck overseas. These are inter-generational Australian stories. Your stories. Our stories.

The Covid crisis has impacted all of us differently - whilst some of us are finding our comfort with living a socially distanced life and working from home there are others who have had their jobs and livelihood impacted.

In this episode we speak to Tiffany D'Cunha who along with a bunch of other young professionals have set up Elev8Me which is on a mission to support Australians who have lost their jobs recently and are struggling to customise their CVs to meet the market needs & finding the right network.

We are in this together!

On the International Day of the World Indigenous People, honored to have a yarn with Trent White, a Darumbal and Yiman man, talented indigenous photographer and sharing the stories of the land through his lens.

Sustaining the culture, rituals that could be vanishing without much notice through westernisation and urbanisation. How do we fix the matter of preserving our Australian Indigenous identity?

"Growing up many traditions were lost, and that would leave a shame in the family, when people would ask - what is your language? A language that you don't know, that's shame because that knowledge has been taken from you, by them", said Trent.