#VaxTheNation

10 September 2021

In this episode of the BLAKroom your hosts Kirk Page and Nick Paton yarn about the #VaxTheNation campaign and some of the other amazing ways Aboriginal communities are helping other Aboriginal communities deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Kirk & Nick yarn with senior journalist Darren Coyne about the covid crisis unfolding for mob in the NSW town of Wilcannia and how you can help. The boys have a yarn with Palawa woman Jillian Mundy about a recent Cultural Burn on Lutruwita Country (Tasmania), and deadly Sports editor Darren Moncrieff has a yarn about the government’s response to the vaccine rollout and implications on sport. The BLAKroom news podcast is a Koori Mail production. The theme music in this podcast is "Juice" by J-MILLA. Edition 759 of the Koori Mail Newspaper is ON SALE NOW! Subscribe to the Koori Mail Newspaper here: koorimail.com To advertise in the Koori Mail's upcoming Higher Education Feature please contact advertising@koorimail.com Podcast enquiries: podcast@koorimail.com  For more information on #VaxTheNation visit: vaxthenation.com.au DONATE to the Wilcannia community through the Kumaridha local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group: BSB: 650000 ACC: 538408403 TWITTER: twitter.com/koorimailnews @koorimailnews FACEBOOK: facebook.com/koorimail/ @koorimail INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/koorimailnewspaper/ If this podcast raises any issues for you please contact the National Indigenous Critical Response Service on 1800 805 801 or Lifeline on 13 14 11. At the Koori Mail, we acknowledge and pay our respects to the Bundjalung Nation, and the lands of the Widjabul Wiabul people upon which our offices sit, and to all Ancestors and Elders. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND

In this episode of the BLAKroom your hosts Kirk Page and Nick Paton yarn about the #VaxTheNation campaign and some of the other amazing ways Aboriginal communities are helping other Aboriginal communities deal with the coronavirus pandemic.