Speaking Out

ABC

4.8 (112)
SOCIETY & CULTURE
UPDATED WEEKLY

Politics, arts and culture from a range of Indigenous perspectives.

12/12/2025

The 2025 Year In Review: Hard-won progress and ongoing challenges

Looking back on the past 12 months in Indigenous affairs with Lindon Coombes and Lorena Allam.

54 min
05/12/2025

Voices that First Nations young people can trust

Two of the biggest advocates for young people and children highlights issues, from Juvenile justice to childcare reform, what is working and what needs to change?

54 min
28/11/2025

Rewriting OUR history: Using film to expose our hidden histories

Bringing to light stories that have been in the background of our history books.

54 min
21/11/2025

Truth Telling in our sporting communities

Taking a look at the ABC doco End Game and how big organisations can support First Nations players and leaders, standing up against racism in sport.

54 min
14/11/2025

Gone But Not Forgotten: Still Seeking Justice

Larissa talks with journalist Lorena Allam and author Angie Faye Martin about the intersection between fact and fiction in Martin’s debut novel 'Melaleuca'.

54 min
07/11/2025

Honoring the Black Thinkers who shaped Chelsea Watego

Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, Professor Chelsea Watego, talks about her new book 'Black Thoughts Matter', and owning your own narrative as a First Nations academic.

54 min
31/10/2025

The Homecoming of 'kith and kin'

Archie Moore's award winning work 'kith and kin' comes home to Brisbane. Larissa speaks with journalist David Marr and Writer Cheryl Levy examining the impact of tracing his family history through archives and coronial records, and how that reflected kinship and connection.

54 min
24/10/2025

Djon Mundine: "A Mirror Of Possibility"

Artist, curator and storyteller Uncle Djon Mundine, a fierce custodian of truth talks about career using his work to form a bridge between contemporary art and traditional Aboriginal knowledge systems.

54 min

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Larissa Behrendt

Host

4.8

out of 5

112 Ratings

Insightful

17/11/2024

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Feels like the best kind of eavesdropping
Listen Up - Yes

12/05/2024

Redxhill

Essential listening
Spot on

07/11/2017

Uniunik

This show always nails it . You guys rock and i cant wait til you take the joint back. Its not ABOUT indigenous affairs like its a thing, its ABOUT life , culture and negotiating the contemporary landscape, from a perspective that is informed by indigeneity. These are the real australian voices and should be the leading voices of our times. more honest about the past , more clearsighted abt the future. Last show one guest corrected Turncoat re the radical option, itd be sending the colonists home. I totally agree. It took indonesia 300 years to get rid of the dutch. Its not too late for Australia. Perhaps the discourse needs to embrace that kind of edge it might help people appreciate the middle better. <3 Listen to them, peeps!
WOKE and Wobbly

10/05/2024

DD1941

Definitely in the woke, weak and wobbly category. Preared by the teenagers at the ABC who want to over-representi minorities such as our Indigenous cousins. Part of the ABC’s Victim Radio mentality.