Random Acts of Conversation - Josh Reid Jones and Inala Cooper
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Inala is a force of creativity, generosity, kindness and action. We have a wonderful yarn about growing up without smart phones, going from Contemporary Dance to Human Rights Law, and how to navigate a range of challenges of advocacy, listening, sharing and understanding.
She has a wonderful book - Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & The Fight For Rights. Which I highly recommend everyone ducks out and gets their hands on!
Inala is a Director at Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development at University of Melbourne. Director on the Board of Adam Briggs Foundation. Director on the Board of State Library of Victoria. Immediate past President, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC) for 2022. Social commentator. Change maker. Advocate for Indigenous rights, social justice and human rights. Author of 'Marrul - Aboriginal Identity and the Fight for Rights' - out now at all good bookstores and via Monash University Publishing. https://publishing.monash.edu/product/marrul/
As always, we would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this episode was recorded the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their leaders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that we live, work and recorded this on unceded Aboriginal land - always was, always will be.
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