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Grace Tan interviewed Munanjahli, Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman Dr Chelsea Watego (@drcwatego) about the silence surrounding the ongoing Senate Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women April this year. Dr Watego is Professor of Indigenous Health and Executive Director of the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology. Further information about what is happening to the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women can be found at this article on The Conversation by Amy McQuire, Chelsea Watego, David Singh and Elizabeth Strakosch.
Amy McQuire's work on "presencing" can be found on her substack

For the second story, Claudia spoke to Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at the Australia Institute about the report “Inequality on Steroids: Distribution of economic growth in Australia”. To read the report: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Inequality-on-Steroids-Who-Benefits-From-Economic-Growth-in-Australia-WEB511-copy.pdf

At the start of December, five trans women were arrested in Malaysia, ranked by the Global Trans Rights Index as the second worst place in the world, after Guyana, to be trans. Video footage of police kicking and beating up one of the women was shared on social media. Sonia spoke with a trans-rights activist, Thilaga, from the group Justice for Sisters, to understand what happened. 

Artist-made portraits of murdered Palestinian journalists plastered to the ABC offices to shed light on the media silence of their fallen colleagues in Gaza. 40 portraits of killed journalists were stuck to the entrance at about 4:30am this morning in Naarm/Melbourne. Eloise Grills joined Sonia this morning to tell us a bit about what's planned & why. 

Songs:
Julia Boutros Yamma Mwail Al-Hawa - Palestinian Heritage
Saied Silbak feat. Nour Darwish - Ya Tal'een