Daniel James
speaker
3,372 appearances
84 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Daniel James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most of my life.
Yep.
The telegraph station became a residential institution where Aboriginal children were taken when they were stolen from their families.
Aunty Pat went on to become a nurse and in the midst of her career won a native title claim with her people.
Her personal and professional advancement and hard-fought native title victory made her think for a time things were improving.
But the intervention changed all that.
The government did this?
Why do you think they were doing it?
The intervention didn't end with Howard.
Rudd and Gillard kept it in place, ironically rebranding it Stronger Futures.
Aunty Pat watched on as outsiders imposed a set of rules that removed the ability for her people to control their own lives.
In response, Aunty Pat and other grandmothers established a group to patrol the streets of Alice at night to look for and look after kids on the streets in fear they'd be picked up by the police or the army.
How long was the Strong Grandmothers group together for?
Yeah,
You have eight grandchildren of your own.
I see a photo of someone who graduated something up or something or other on the wall there.
me.
Yeah, who's that?
Pat spent decades trying to protect the children of Alice Springs from the government and its intervention.
But now, she's leaving.
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