Episodes

  • Multidisciplinary artist Ilona McGuire places love into community following the 2023 Referendum

    Multidisciplinary artist Ilona McGuire places love into community following the 2023 Referendum
    Nov 14 2024
    Ilona McGuire uses her art as commentary on the political climate of 'Australia', often with a lighthearted humour as a tool for activism. Ilona has grown up embracing her Noongar and Kungarakan cultures, performing with her Noongar family since a young age. Her culture informs her artwork and promotes valuable messages and brings attention to the political climate. Combining technology with culture, Ilona has worked with drone light shows such as “Moombaki” to centre the importance of place in story, and the power of knowing the significance of an area.
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    36 mins
  • Healthy relationships for teenagers, and holding boundaries for yourself

    Healthy relationships for teenagers, and holding boundaries for yourself
    Nov 7 2024
    You can’t help others with an empty cup, but how does supporting your own needs first, before you support others really go? Shakara Walley went from working in the arts to working with incarcerated youth. Her journey to supporting herself and creating boundaries as a form of love, has informed her work supporting young people in what healthy relationships look like.
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    37 mins
  • Dylan Collard’s journey to reclaiming Noongar language, for kalyakoorl, the future

    Dylan Collard’s journey to reclaiming Noongar language, for kalyakoorl, the future
    Oct 30 2024
    Language revitalisation has been a long and hard journey that continues to be impacted by the ongoing effects of colonisation. Policies such as the White Australia Act forbade First Nations Australians from speaking their languages. Dylan Collard strove to reclaim his connection to Noongar language, not only to deepen his own relationship to culture, but in order to keep the language of Noongar Country alive. Dylan started his language journey in 2017, and is now a fluent speaker and teacher.
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    35 mins
  • Noongar Wellbeing is back for season two, sharing the perspectives of young people

    Noongar Wellbeing is back for season two, sharing the perspectives of young people
    Oct 28 2024
    Wellbeing as we know it now has been constructed from a Western perspective, so what does the oldest continuing culture in the world have to say about methods of achieving and maintaining wellbeing? In this season of Noongar Wellbeing Ballardong Whadjuk Noongar woman Brooke Collard yarns with young people about their perspectives on self care, community, and culture.
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    1 min
  • Dot West on how storytelling shapes identity

    Dot West on how storytelling shapes identity
    Jul 18 2022
    First Nations stories are rich and diverse, and the world is hungry for them. But when stores are told about, and not with First Nations people, misrepresentation and stereotyping often occur. In this episode we yarn with Noongar Elder Dot West OAM, a leading advocate for the inclusion of First Nations voices in the media. Dot is also a scriptwriter, SBS board member and poet.
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    38 mins
  • Vivienne Hansen on Noongar Bush Tucker and medicine

    Vivienne Hansen on Noongar Bush Tucker and medicine
    Jul 4 2022
    Traditional foods or “bush tucker” have seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In this episode of Noongar Wellbeing, Ballardong and Whadjuk Elder and author Vivienne ‘Binyaarn’ Hansen shares how Noongar people view food as medicine.
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    27 mins
  • Professor Len Collard on the magic of Wangka or talking

    Professor Len Collard on the magic of Wangka or talking
    Jul 4 2022
    Communication can be an undervalued and underused tool in maintaining wellbeing. It can be rare to find a safe environment to speak openly with others, free of judgement. But you don’t always have to speak to other people. The Country around you can be a great listener.
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    32 mins
  • Koodah Cornwall on reigniting your inner fire

    Koodah Cornwall on reigniting your inner fire
    Jul 3 2022
    First Nations people have safely used fire for millennia in unity with the country. Fire is often viewed as something to fear, but it's also a life-giving force. So what does it mean to light your inner fire? In episode two of Noongar Wellbeing, Noongar man and Wilman clan Elder Koodah Cornwall talks about the importance of fire to wellbeing.
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    26 mins