Stop Black Deaths in Custody rally, impact of ‘Trumpian tactics’ in Voice to Parliament Referendum, Chinese-Australians disengage with Voice on WeChat, Digital inclusion gap in First Nations Communities

Wednesday, 11 October 2023 - 7:00am to 8:30am
Aerial view of remote, outback town with red dirt

7:15AM: We listen back to some of the speeches from the National Action to Stop Black Deaths in Custody rally which took place in Naarm and around the country on Saturday.

7:30AM: Patrick was joined by Jock Cheetham, Senior Lecturer in news and media in the Charles Sturt School of Information and Communication Studies about the impact of ‘Trumpian tactics’ in the Voice to Parliament Referendum.

7:50AM: Grace and Claudia speak with Dr Fan Yang, a research fellow at the University's Melbourne Law school and ARC Centre of Excellence for automated decision making and society. She joined us to talk about the way WeChat is facilitating information about the Voice referendum to the Australian-Chinese community and whether this group of voters are listening.

8:10AM: Sunehra Speaks to Dr Daniel Featherstone who is the lead researcher of The “Mapping the Digital Gap” report, which found that people from remote First Nations communities are among the most digitally excluded people in Australia. Find out more about closing the gap in digital inclusion HERE.

Music: 
Long Live Palestine by Lowkey
Are you from TI? by The Mills Sisters
Women's Business by Ruby Hunter